San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 435
f populai-criticism are not concerned with a buildings appropriateness or beauty,but with its reputed resemblance to ten cents or a million dollars. For al)uilding costing five thousand dollars to look like five thousand is acommercial blunder or a social ineptitude. Thus does Americanarchitecture,… … iKURGE WASHINGTON SMITH.Geoige Washington Smith, Ar CALIF. The use of the term American architecture must not be interpretedas subscription to the, oft-repeated doctrine that there should or can bea uniform, tangible American style. If the populace errs in relegatingthe art to the status of herald…
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