Architect and engineer . j/-ira,/> /?/£>/?& Ji jIAi PLANS. RESIDENCE OF MILTON CLARKE, SAN FRANCISCOMasten and Hurd, Architects WaDter P c Eoto NEVER count the sheep jumping overa fence in order to get to sleep. Instead, Ilay out a garden. On the rare occasionswhen even this doesnt work, I design thehouse which faces this garden. But I havenever yet got inside the house. I am alwaysfast asleep 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,
Architect and engineer . j/-ira,/> /?/£>/?& Ji jIAi PLANS. RESIDENCE OF MILTON CLARKE, SAN FRANCISCOMasten and Hurd, Architects WaDter P c Eoto NEVER count the sheep jumping overa fence in order to get to sleep. Instead, Ilay out a garden. On the rare occasionswhen even this doesnt work, I design thehouse which faces this garden. But I havenever yet got inside the house. I am alwaysfast asleep 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
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