Architect and engineer . p by the time its outer aspects havecompletely shaped. It is a curious fact,which I dont pretend to explain, that in thisprocess of garden and house designing,behind closed lids in the dark chamber, Isee the result with unusual vividness, and,once the image comes, it no longer feels tome like any creation of my own, but ratherlike some remembered picture of an actual 6+ spot. Doubtless, of course, many features ofmy semi-dream houses and gardens arememories of actual spots, or of photographsof actual spots. Yet it is I who have com-bined them into a new whole. I ought
Architect and engineer . p by the time its outer aspects havecompletely shaped. It is a curious fact,which I dont pretend to explain, that in thisprocess of garden and house designing,behind closed lids in the dark chamber, Isee the result with unusual vividness, and,once the image comes, it no longer feels tome like any creation of my own, but ratherlike some remembered picture of an actual 6+ spot. Doubtless, of course, many features ofmy semi-dream houses and gardens arememories of actual spots, or of photographsof actual spots. Yet it is I who have com-bined them into a new whole. I ought not,in all modesty, to be so pleased as I oftenam with the result, or deduce therefrom,quite ex cathedra, laws of gardening andarchitecture. To my mind the ideal garden has fewerflower beds and fewer set flowers than iscommonly the practice. It is knit far moreintimately with the side or the rear of thedwelling than is often the case. The ordi-nary dwelling has an entrance which con- June, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. 65. RESIDENCE OF FRED S. McCORD, SAN FRANCISCOMasten and Hiird, Architects
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