like the ultra-modernists among the painters, practiced weird and bizarre effects, under the impression that that was modern architecture and that they were creating a new style. No style in architecture was created in a day, nor in the span of the life of a single person; and although many have tried, few have succeeded in radically changing the dignified course which architecture has always followed. However, California seems to have evolved a new style which has been developed by using the old missions as examples. Everyone is familiar with the history of the early days of the state of California and also of the padres who brought with them the education and arts of old Spain to a new and strange country.
The lack of skilled labor combined with the sometimes vague and sometimes brilliant conceptions of the padres, gave to the West Coast the charming missions which still delight all who see their ruins. So California, as is the case with New England, has not been blind to the examples of the past. If anyone thinks this commonplace, he has only to look at modern structures in England, France and Italy and then at his old neighbors in the same street. Throughout those countries, with wonderful buildings of the past actually touching them every hour of the day, glaring examples of mediocre buildings are daily being erected that are not even good for the present generation. Coming back to California, we can appreciate more than ever that they have considered the past and yet out
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