Architect and engineer . rther and ask whychoose any master other than nature. It is an interesting point to rememberthat no man can think of a form he has not THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER •^ 37 ? NOVEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE seen. All mechanical inventions, all ma-chinery, from the simplest to the most com-plicated, are but rearrangements of othermostly lesser forms. A wheel within themost complicated machine yet remains awheel. In other words man saw the principle ofthe wheel in the rolling log. His genius de-vised a thousand combinations to performcertain specific works. As with the laws s
Architect and engineer . rther and ask whychoose any master other than nature. It is an interesting point to rememberthat no man can think of a form he has not THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER •^ 37 ? NOVEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE seen. All mechanical inventions, all ma-chinery, from the simplest to the most com-plicated, are but rearrangements of othermostly lesser forms. A wheel within themost complicated machine yet remains awheel. In other words man saw the principle ofthe wheel in the rolling log. His genius de-vised a thousand combinations to performcertain specific works. As with the laws seeking new motifs, there is always an end-less supply. But the early geniuses dealtonly with forms offering the most practicalsolution to the problems of the succeeded only through long centur-ies of and elimination. The few^races which we term classic, advanced theirparticular style to a high point of other words the field of motifs is con-fined to the works of but a small group of. THE AZTEC HOTEL, MONROVIA, CALIFORNIA First structure erected in America embodying ancient Mayan motifs Robt. B. Stacy-Judd. Architect followed in mechanics, so with the scienceof architecture. There is no need to go back to the nat-ural form prototype. The primitive urgewas to create an artificial cave or tree shel-ter. Now, the business of constructing arti-ficial shelters has become, next to farming,mans largest and most important occupa-tion. Long centuries ago he solved prac-tically all the main building problems whileadapting nature to his needs. Progress indecoration followed later but on similarlines. The business of erecting shelters, in-cluding their decorations, is fundamentallyartificial. Being artificial the working stan-dards created by the early geniuses obviatethe necessity of resorting to natural formfor all design motifs. Not that man has exhausted nature in civilizations, among whom are the each race is decidedly individual in cul-tur
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