The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-04
Che Days Best Choughts
The Art of Life
and Building
EDITED BY NOBLE FOSTER HoCCSON


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cept of architecure to people, is limited to libraries
art galleries and other public buildings These they feel
architecture and achtecture to fulfill the most popular
conception must have Greek columns and be executed
stone on scale less grand and at expenditure of
equally conspicuous scale.
So far this general popular estimate goes it is an
ceen and highly desirable thing The people Of every
and city, the people Of every village should be keeny
interested in the architectural merit of every public building
which being erected with city funds They should demand
the highest order of architectural merit and should to
learn intelligent discrimination between architectural
merit and financial expenditure The library for example, in
neighborng town may have cost several thousand dollars
to build than the library ones town. but may not
be necessarily better architecturaly.
By all means let any community, be it large or small
large buildings possible for its important civic ed
ces but let the members Of the committee as well as indl
vdual citizens make every effort toward the Intelligent ex
pendture of their Let them remember that large
building of poor mediocre design far less redto the COM
muny than small building which model Of harmonious
appropriate and wel-studed architecture.
The only relationship between "archecture" and Eek
pendure" egmatey to be reckoned is to be found in the
application of money for the execution of project nOber
architectural character than would be attanabe with small
er expenditure Mere size mere inherent expense in materials
usedhese things often looming important to neXper
enced building cOmmittee-bear no relation whatever to
architecture building of poor design though large in size
is fact prOpoonately deplorabe than small build
ing OF poor design representing as does greater waste OF
materials well as the loss of greater architectural oppor
tunity.
But comment so far, has been directed toward those
buildings which represent the rather confined popular
ton of archecture 1t if came to be recognized that arch
lecture may find expression every form of buldngWhat
beautiful transformations might be wrought! Architecture
called by way Of partial definition he art Of building beau
fully should not be confined to public monumental build
ngs should realize its true mission of beaufyng what
regard every day" commercial utlarian edifces
Recent years have marked advance in the archi
tectma treatment of office buildings shops and "Oft
budgthe last build essentially for commercial purposes
Architecture" indeed applied to building, has been
proved beneficial asset rather than aesthetic ideal Sew
era architects of Chicago and the Middle West have attained
remarkable in distinctly architectural renderngs of
factory buidngs and architectural ideals by
incompatible with type of building usually regarded by most
of "hopeessy" utaran-buldngs for power houses
and pumping stations.
Pacific Coast architect however his distinguished him
self years by his unusual rendering of this type of building
Plants which in most instances have been accepted as r
remedabe bots upon their immediate localities have been
given the architectural dignity and grace which commonly
regarded the special requisites of archeura buildings
such libraries and the like.
Perhaps the spell has been brokenperhap those people
who need to dream dreams and visions of archec
ura beauty have been and being gradually awakened by
the patient endeavOrS of few earnest and inspired arch
realization that there may be ideals in everyday
archtecture-that garage may be beautiful building,
storage warehouse structure Of fine dignity and strength
and that factory may be clothed in architectural mobility
concept which will be commensurate terms of the better
and final ideal with the commercial significance of the great
industry which it houses.
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