. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . and Comfortable Appc ut Not in Keeping mth Mr. Gills C,. Gill Type of Buihiing. Which the DesigncTrue If ester n Feeling The .In-hit lit and liir^iiiccr 79 less affair to some other impatient newcomer. Perhaps such temporary pro-ceedings are necessary in the setthng of a new land : fortunately such struc-tures cannot endure, will never last long enough to he a monument forfuture generations to wonder at. Such structures cannot rightly be calledhomes, so do not justly deserve notice in a consideration of Western do-mestic architec
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . and Comfortable Appc ut Not in Keeping mth Mr. Gills C,. Gill Type of Buihiing. Which the DesigncTrue If ester n Feeling The .In-hit lit and liir^iiiccr 79 less affair to some other impatient newcomer. Perhaps such temporary pro-ceedings are necessary in the setthng of a new land : fortunately such struc-tures cannot endure, will never last long enough to he a monument forfuture generations to wonder at. Such structures cannot rightly be calledhomes, so do not justly deserve notice in a consideration of Western do-mestic architecture. If we, the architects of the West, wish to do great and lasting work wemust dare to be simple, must have the courage to fling aside every devicethat distracts the eye from structural beauty, must break through conven-tion and get down to fundamental truths. Through force of custom andeducation we, in whose hands much of the beauty of country and city isentrusted, have been compelled to study the style of other men, with theresult that most of our modern work is an open imitation or veiled plagiar-ism of anothe
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