San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 441
e moved to complain that Mr. Smiths THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 55 buildings contain no arciiitecture, so uncompromisingly has he dismissedthe entire paraphernalia of traditional architectural respectability. Pic-turesque masses of plain walls in undulating lime-white plaster; windowsirregularly,… … ENTRANCE GATE. HOUSE OF MR. GEORGE WASHINGTON .SMrfH, SANTA BARBARA. CALIF. George Washington Smith. Aichitect no motifs, no elements, not even a main axis! Only freedom,warmth, ease, content, repose. Remy de Gourmont, in a penetratingessay on The Dissociation of Ideas, drops the suggestive remark…
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