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Architect and engineer (1905)

San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 87

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A Spanish influence has per-vaded the architecture of California from the beginning. The countrysfirst building was, indeed, definitely Spanish in inspiration and deriva-tion ; yet the psychological influences of pioneering and its physicalnecessities imposed on the art expression an individual… … SEA COAST NEAR PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFOnNIA country is to a laige degree a supplanting of the older one rather thana development out of it, this tradition is no longer relevant. And it isundeniably true that the life of present day California is rooted in theEastern tradition of the United States…

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