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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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of present tendencies, we shall never have a THE ARCHITFXT AND ENGINEER 51 style in the generally accepted historical sense. It does not follow thattherefore our architecture must be chaotic and expressionless, or, inother words, without style in the truer sense of the word. We shouldrather envisage an enlarged conception of style. Our broadened knowl-edge, far from being rejected as our undoing, should be welcomed as thebasis for a more intelligent choice and synthesis. Is it unreasonable toassume that, with other conditions propitious, we might achieve morewith all past experience as a conscious basis for our effort than with onlythe last twenty or thirty years? Is it unthinkable that elements whichare historically diveise (of different styles) may be fused into a stylefar more varied and mobile, albeit no less genuine and expressive, thanthe decorative codes to which the popular application of the word is con-fined? Style thus conceived is no less a reality than as commonly under-
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VIEW FROM THE ROAD. COTTAGE FOR MR. AND MRS. DANIEL NUGENT.SANDYLAND. NEAR SANTA BARBARAJames Osborne Craig, Architect stood, though it may require greater insight to recognize and define it.The real enemy of vital architecture today is not knowledge of where westand and how we got there. Archaeology—an unimaginative, uncreativeapplication of our knowledge—is a deadening influence; and public apathyand lack of appreciation is an incubus which can not be entirely thrownoff by the ablest of designers. There is distinct encouragement for California architecture in thefact that a region whose landscape and culture are congenial to beautifularchitecture and whose traditions go back to beautiful architecture, iscoming under the influence of a group of designers possessed of a vividsense of beauty and a fresh and buoyant outlook. The task of these menis a formidable one. In other ages and places architects were chargedwith the conservation of traditions or the continuance of recognized d

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