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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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ey were walking slowly along,were high-strung and nervous. Now somearchitects are like Percherons and otherslike race-horses! To the former I havenothing to say, but to the latter I venturesome advice. Those who are especially proficient attasks requiring creative imagination are aptto be more sensitive than others and con-sequently more easily thrown off their men-tal balance—which in its turn effects theirphysical balance. Architects of artistic in-clination, who are also practical, have ^31 ► peculiarly trying demands placed uponthem in this respect: for they are calledupon to exercise the ready fancy of theartist, the practicality of the construction-ist and the responsibility of the businessman, and have all these three different one must be born with, it can be acquired.The way it is done is a longer story andcannot be dwelt upon here to any extent,but a hint may be derived by reverting backto the physicist s and metaphysicians state-ments that behind the Universe of law and
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RESIDENCE OF ELMER GREY.Elmer Grey. Architect PASADENA. CALIFORNIA qualities on tap constantly. I am convincedthat many sensitive young architects havebeen stricken with illness at times, simplybecause their mental makeups go awryunder that kind of strain and their physicalmachinery is thrown out of order in conse-quence. Furthermore, many such, I be-lieve, do not know the cause of theirtrouble. Now the great panacea for such tem-peraments is the deliberate, conscious cul-tivation of poise—for that is not a quality order is an all-inclusive Intelligence andthat the mentality,of each of us is a partof It. This should tell us that there is notthe need we so often feel there is, of be-coming perturbed over untoward events:and also that if we would keep in tune withan orderly Universe we must keep ourthoughts orderly—and that we can do ifwe w^ill. The training must start before the straincomes. We are all of us constantly opento suggestion from outside influences which THE ARCHITECT A

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