American homes and gardens . masters of their employers. Theywent into architecture because they loved it, and they workedat it with enthusiasm that no modern man can bring to hisown labor. Architects do not work in the same way problems are wholly different. They do not buildon the same scale nor with such splendid results. They haveno opportunity of doing so. Their work is less grand butmore practical. They are concerned less with the artisticside of building than with the practical. They add less tothe beauty of life and more to its safety. And if they cancombine safety with art
American homes and gardens . masters of their employers. Theywent into architecture because they loved it, and they workedat it with enthusiasm that no modern man can bring to hisown labor. Architects do not work in the same way problems are wholly different. They do not buildon the same scale nor with such splendid results. They haveno opportunity of doing so. Their work is less grand butmore practical. They are concerned less with the artisticside of building than with the practical. They add less tothe beauty of life and more to its safety. And if they cancombine safety with artistic expression they have achievedthe most that can be asked of them and the most that canbe expected. This is the real new note of modern architecture. And itemphasizes the enormous difficulties under which the modernarchitect must work. He must use the old motifs as thebasis of his designs, and he must solve new problems withold materials. Is it strange he does not always succeed? July, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 33.
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