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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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in ranch, which derived its class rooms and faculty houses. However, name from the old Spanish grant known as for the Temple, which will be the center of THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 12 ^ NOVEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR the group and the gathering place and ad-ministration building, we plan a buildingof pure Aztec architecture. ■At first I was unable to find anyone inNorthern California who was agreed withme that the pueblo type house would beappropriate for our environment and cli-mate. I took clay and modelled the firstsmall house, then had a larger model builtby a contractor, so that we might see how Pueblo Style FascinatingIn the first place a pueblo is fascinatingto a boy. He can climb all over it. Ithas passageways, nooks and crannies,which hold a great mystery to a youngsterand suggest all kinds of play. The coveredhallways are particularly good in wetv/eather—boys can play outdoors withoutgetting wet, and get plenty of healthful ex-ercise, whereas they might be cooped up in
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Phiito hy Ralph Young FRONT VIEW OF MAIN DORMITORY. MONTEZUMA MOUNTAIN SCHOOL,LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIARequa and Jackson. Architects it looked with the redwood forests for abackground. The effect was so pleasingthat we went ahead with the building andit became our library. Then I met Mr. Requa, who had madea lifetime study of the pueblo type and whohad used that architecture so effectively inthe buildings of the Pan-Pacific Expositionin San Diego. After he and I had spent asummer- together in New Mexico, studyingpueblos, we built a large dormitory in purepueblo style. After I had seen the earlyNew Mexico houses I made up my mindthat the pueblo was the ideal building forhousing boys for several reasons. ordinary buildings. Another appealingfeature is that no two rooms are exactlyalike. Boys like variety. Even the doorsand windows are different. Every dooropens to an outside passageway. Thedecks and roofs provide places for smallgroups of boys to gather and work at what-ever interests them.

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