the structure at each critical period. Visualizing the thing as he created it in his mind’s eye, he makes it grow in harmony with his artistic perception. These things can, of course, be turned completed over subordinates, When they are, the difference is as between the average house and one like this.
Clients differ. Some will not quietly stand hitched. When the building is completed, they may therefore discharge their architect and deliberately proceed to mar his work by atrocious decoration and poorly selected furniture. But as we had occa
sion to remark when we previously illustrated a house by Mr. Pope, he is able so to impress upon his client the need of consistency to the last detail, that in this house, as in many others, he has selected or designed every important element that constitutes its interior fitting.
Here we have another phase of the architect’s many-sided activities, and here again, starting with the most correctly trained artistic ideals, he becomes the man of business. In fact, it does not seem possible in following an architect in the progress of an important job from its inception to its comple
tion, to divorce his artistic activities from his welltrained business abilities. Now, knowing as in this instance, that a house has been built within the limits of the original appropriation, here again the business man appears. All the wonderful refinement which has been displayed in this building, all the many contingencies which may at any time appear, have all been foreseen and met. This is simply the practice of architecture in this twentieth century. Can it be successfully denied?
Perhaps some will point to an organization of skilled assistants of keen estimators and specifica
tion writers, of a routine business organization that is a model. All of these things are conceded, but must it not also be conceded that they have been assembled, organized, drilled and perfected in every detail by the controlling mind of the artist whose work they are carrying forward, by the architect who of necessity is a business man and the head of an organization whose watchword is Service?
These things, it would seem, can be logically claimed as the correct attitude of the modern architect toward his work. If it is necessary, as it seems to be to many, to assume a pose” toward profes
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Clients differ. Some will not quietly stand hitched. When the building is completed, they may therefore discharge their architect and deliberately proceed to mar his work by atrocious decoration and poorly selected furniture. But as we had occa
sion to remark when we previously illustrated a house by Mr. Pope, he is able so to impress upon his client the need of consistency to the last detail, that in this house, as in many others, he has selected or designed every important element that constitutes its interior fitting.
Here we have another phase of the architect’s many-sided activities, and here again, starting with the most correctly trained artistic ideals, he becomes the man of business. In fact, it does not seem possible in following an architect in the progress of an important job from its inception to its comple
tion, to divorce his artistic activities from his welltrained business abilities. Now, knowing as in this instance, that a house has been built within the limits of the original appropriation, here again the business man appears. All the wonderful refinement which has been displayed in this building, all the many contingencies which may at any time appear, have all been foreseen and met. This is simply the practice of architecture in this twentieth century. Can it be successfully denied?
Perhaps some will point to an organization of skilled assistants of keen estimators and specifica
tion writers, of a routine business organization that is a model. All of these things are conceded, but must it not also be conceded that they have been assembled, organized, drilled and perfected in every detail by the controlling mind of the artist whose work they are carrying forward, by the architect who of necessity is a business man and the head of an organization whose watchword is Service?
These things, it would seem, can be logically claimed as the correct attitude of the modern architect toward his work. If it is necessary, as it seems to be to many, to assume a pose” toward profes
SOUTHWEST VIEW