The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 50
ithoutviolent departure from type, their moderation where one might e.xpectredundancy, their enrichment where we are accustomed to find poverty,I am not critical as to the crudeness of some of their detail, nor impatientwith their departure from fixed rules of classic proportions, but I amrather… … Image Maker at Capistrano Mission It is evident that the men who built the Missions loved architecture,as few love it now, for its own sake. Who was there then to admire butthe barbarians? As a means wherewith to retain their hold on the highestconventions of civilization and as an expression of…
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