| Show our archut ct for along a long time past the clipper has desired to call upon william allen alien of kaysville Kays ville the architect and have a chat with him lint but this opportunity was never realized until last sunday when a half day was pleasantly spent in looking over books and papers in the architects architect I 1 library and office the value of architecture and the vast amount of knowl knowledge edae 0 an architect must pili possess sess is not ge generally known by the people some think all that is necessary for an all architect to know is how to make pictures and never div it a thought that he must be a student in higher mathematics in order to calculate correctly the strength of building materials that lie he must be possessed possessed of a knowledge of masonry carpentry plumbing un der stand beating ventilating decorating painting and all the kindred arts as well as aa to understand the science of Ns aesthetics to be able to make designs for modern houses it wont do for lim him to lo simply know a little about these different def ferent lines of business he must understand every detail perfectly because if he does not he be cannot design work for other oilier practical men or superintend a building while it is being constructed to get this knowledge it requires a great many books and as they are out of the usual us tal line read by the public they are both expensive and hard to get unless purchased outright they are expensive for the same reason that a local paper is higer priced in to por portion to the size dze as c marcu t area w with ill a paper with a more general circulation cu mr allen alien lias bas between and worth of books on arb architecture liftee in ili his big library ranging in price from one to twenty livers two dollars each ile he says what many people who have books cannot say gay and that is that when lie gets one he reads and studies it thor hughly mr allen alien has ha studied architecture systematically for the last sixteen years and lias has been identified iden tilled with the building ai trade every since he be was a small boy his big father being a skillful stone cutter cutler from tile the many original ori ninal drawings and blue blueprints print 9 which hang in ili the designers office tile writer could see who it was that hall had planed tle the finest I 1 public and private buildings in ill our county ile he is now making a design for a tabernacle to be built at oakley idaho a prettier little church the writer never beheld io in tin this s or european countries time will not permit us its to speak further of the many interesting te t things noticed in the archi office but possibly later we shall say something t more |
