Architect and engineer . ape ar-chitect becomes depend-ent upon the must be conversant inthe lines relating to hiswork; yes, and he mustknow something of thesevarious phases of engi-neering in order to meethis problems intelligent-ly and discuss them with 69 70 ARCHITECTAND ENGINEER, April. 1030 one more highly specialized and conversantin each particular branch of he is never in competition with the en-gineer and does not encroach upon hisrightful field of activity nor take workaway from him. Engineer and landscape architect shouldwork in cooperative harmony, not a
Architect and engineer . ape ar-chitect becomes depend-ent upon the must be conversant inthe lines relating to hiswork; yes, and he mustknow something of thesevarious phases of engi-neering in order to meethis problems intelligent-ly and discuss them with 69 70 ARCHITECTAND ENGINEER, April. 1030 one more highly specialized and conversantin each particular branch of he is never in competition with the en-gineer and does not encroach upon hisrightful field of activity nor take workaway from him. Engineer and landscape architect shouldwork in cooperative harmony, not as com-petitors, for each has a distinctive field and certain viewpoint from which he ap-proaches the job, according to his pasttraining. The viewpoints are separate anddistinctive, for the engineer sees his prob-lem in a different light than does the land-scape architect. Both are right within theirlimits. But the results are generally betterif the two combine their knowledge andmerge their viewpoints than if either goes. MIDWlCKsYIEW ESTATES DEVELOPMENT PLAN, MIDWICK VIEW ESTATES, CALIFORNIACook, Hall and Cornell, Landscape Architects and City Planners a job bigger than one man in a million canmaster in a lifetime. Both engineer and landscape architectundertake many of the same problems. Theyshould work them out together more thanis done and not try to spread one mans timeand talent too thinly over a large area. , road building, subdivision work,town planning of various degrees! We allof us get up in them more or less, andusually pray for more. Each of us has a along without consideration for the other. The engineer has been trained in mathe-matical exactitude. He calculates with aslide rule and measures within the fractionof an inch. He sees his job to be that of put-ting a thing through accurately, so that itwill work. He thinks more of structuralsoundness than of appearance, and an anglewhere a curve might have been seldomhurts his feelin
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