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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e promised innovationsare still estimates on paper. What I have done, others can do if theyfollow similar approaches to the problem.Thus I maintain that low cost houses canbe built by tested methods now availableand that critics of the building industrywho claim that the efficient and inexpensivehouse cannot come out of the old and triedmethods of construction are not informedof the facts. What we need today is toput more effort into using and developingwhat we have in the way of materials andequipment. Manufacturers offer buildersand architects a wide range of standard-ized units, in fact almost too wide a rangefrom which to select. By using good taste,good sense and good management, efficient,beautiful and low-cost houses can be builtfrom these materials, proved by use. Andnow is the time to begin. We have a sur-plus of many goods, but we have a deplor-able lack of comfortable and well-builtmodern homes.—Real Estate. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEKK ^t 19 ^ JANUARY. NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR
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AN OLD HOUSE IN ALBANY. CALIFORNIAPencil Sketch by Arne Kartwold THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEEK ^ 20 ^ JANUARY. NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR TUMBLING HOME-A NEWLY INVENTEDMATHEMATICAL CURVE P, ROBABLY no one factorentering into the architectural design ofcolumns is more contributive to the ultimateeffect, whether good or bad. than theslightly curved diminution or tumblehome of the shaft which, in classicalphraseology, we term the entasis. The usual entasis curve, and the con-struction thereof, that is recorded in allbooks on the Five Orders, is well known.But, strange to say. it is not well knownthat this so-called classic curve is thevertical projection of a cylindrical helix.Which, incidentally, proves that draftsmenand architects, as a class, are not so wellversed as they should be in . . . descrip-tive geometry! But let it go at that. Now, anyone keyed to a fine apprecia-tion of subtle curves realizes that theressomething wrong with the vertical projec-tion of a helix when applied as the prof

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