. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ])ment has not been receivedby the architectural profession in America with the favor which it architects have failed to distinguish between speculation and investmentand have regarded the operations of real estate companies with undisguisedsus|)icion. In this resi)ect they have done injustice to those whose real con-structive ])olicy distinguishes them from the broker class and stamjjs them asuseful public servants. It is not claimed that houses built for investment willequal those built for the better informed cla
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ])ment has not been receivedby the architectural profession in America with the favor which it architects have failed to distinguish between speculation and investmentand have regarded the operations of real estate companies with undisguisedsus|)icion. In this resi)ect they have done injustice to those whose real con-structive ])olicy distinguishes them from the broker class and stamjjs them asuseful public servants. It is not claimed that houses built for investment willequal those built for the better informed class of private owners for their ownuse. ISut it is claimed that these favored cases are so rare, comparatively, thatthey effect no visible benefit to the condition of our domestic architecture andin the meanwhile the crimes of the carpenters and jerry-builders arise with suchamazing and infernal rapidity that they crowd the better class of wf)rk •Of Wood & Simpson. .Vrchitccts. tContinuation of a paper in the December Number. 40 The Architect and Engineer. SKETCH FOR RESIDENCEIVood & Simpson, Architects quite out of thepicture. Also itshould be borne inmind that there aremany homeseekerslacking the culture,imagination a n dgood taste neces-sary to intelligent-ly order the build-ing of a home, forwhom a better re-sult .is obtained bya properly designed,ready-built h e s e considera-tions lead to thebelief that a properand sympatheticCO - operation b e - tween competent architects and well-advised and progressive realty opera-tors would produce a more immediate and more general betterment ofdomestic architecture than is likely otherwise to be effected. It should be noted that this co-operative and. if you like, wholesale methodof building has certain advantages which are sometimes lost sight of. By giv-ing the architect the building of several adjacent houses he is furnished an op-portunity for grouping which will rarely occur in his practise for also is r
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