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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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u seen Nanook of the North,a moving picture of Eskimo life? in<iuiresEngineering and Contracting, and con-tinues: There is one scene particularlyinteresting to an engineer or architect.We refer to the buikling of an igloo byNanook. The house is made of blocks ofice or of compacted snow laid in aspiral and leaning inward, so as to forma dome-shaped structure. In his lectureon The Far North, Stefansson has paida great compliment to the original de-signer of this serviceable residence. Hesaiil that although many white men hadattempted to build igloos, none had suc-ceeded until taught by an Eskimo. WhenPeary made his celebrated dash for theNorth Pole, his party lived in silk tentsand almost peri.shed from cold. Hut whenStefansson made an equally long tripnorth of the Arctic circle, he built anigloo every night, and slept in comfortat a temperature of 60 degrees. Consider the igloo as an economicstructure. The materials are compacted (Concluded on Tuge UC) 112 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
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A CALIFORNIA STUCCO HOME, LOS ANGELES The Rig-ht Way To Do a Good Stucco Job By O. A. IN order to obtain a good job of stucco,consideration must be given to thestructural features of the building towhich it is applied. It is not our purposeto go into a detailed description of theitems that should and must be considered,as this hardly belongs in a brief of thischaracter. By way of suggestion,though, we would call attention to thefact that care must be taken to see ihatno rain or other water can possibly getbehind the stucco, through cracks aroundwindow or door openings; that sufficientoverhang must be given the roof to pro-tect the upper edge of the stucco. Thusthe first responsibility for good stuccorests upon the shoulders of the designerof the house. The second responsibilityrests upon the plasterer, since, no matterwhat materials are used, it will be im-possible to obtain satisfactory stucco un-less the utmost care is used in its appli-catiori. It has been said, and no doubtwith tr

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