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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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nsulation against cold, heat and BOYSSCHOOL. LOS GATOS, California sound. In fact, it was found that the customary heating units, installed at the time of construction, provided too muchheat and they were replaced by smallerunits. While the pueblo building costs alittle more to construct, this additional ex-pense is more than offset, according to Pro-fessor Rogers, by the saving in fuel and up-keep, which is practically nil. Engineering Features Walls of the Montezuma buildings,counting the air space, are from two tothree feet thick. The concrete surfacingvaries from one inch to three inches in thick-ness. Beams are of carefully seasoned red-wood, cut from the forests which form apart of the Montezuma grounds, severalhundred acres in extent. Outside, theredwood is oiled. Inside, it is leftnatural. Hallways are true repro-ductions of pueblo passageways. Fire-CORNER OF PUEBLO dormitory. MONTEZUMA places in the meeting rooms follow the In- MOUNTAIN SCHOOL, LOS GATOS (Contmued on Page 40)
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THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 16 ► NOVEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR Bureaucracy Washinston Criticised e. OVERNMENT bureaucracy threatens to demoralize thearchitectural profession. Ralph Walker.President of the New York Chapter of theAmerican Institute of Architects, chargesin a letter sent to all candidates to Congressin New York State. Mr. Walker declaresthat in carrying out the public buildingsprogram the Treasury Department is de-stroying the private practice of architectsby forcing them to accept temporary em-ployment in Washington under a bureau-cratic regime. Mr. Walker protests the failure of theTreasury Department to keep its promisethat the design of all buildings costing over$60,000 would be entrusted to private arch-itects, working in their own localities. In-stead, he says, architects are compelled todivorce themselves from their offices andhomes and to work on a salary basis asmembers of the large staff which is beingbuilt up in the Office of the SupervisingArchitect in Wa

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