San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 75
, stone veneerwill be replaced by transparent or translucentpanels. Then the facades will have the appearanceof huge mirrors reflecting the sky and the parkof which they will be a pail. It is interesting to note the connection betweenthe stone facades and the academic orders.There are still some… … Perhaps one should not judge them too harshly,for the Greek architects did the same thing andinfluenced the world for almost two thousandyears. The architectural voculabulary of a GreekTemple was devised from wood construction; cen-turies later, when stone made the temples fireproof,the original…
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