American Institute of Architects. San Francisco Chapter · San Francisco, Calif. : J.A. Drummond · leaf 254
ssary to enforce itsharmony with is desti-nation. In these drawings a masterly talent for drafts-manship is forced into the service of an idea—the ex-pression of the composition in its entirety. They re-semble more a painters rendition of a landscape com-position of which the finished building… … interpretative service. To those conversimt with theh;nguaRe of lines the plans are replete with suggestionand explanation. They imply an ensemble which has de-veloped through the sympathetic accretions of years,rather than a project still in prospect. They possess, asone might say, the quality or…
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