Architect and Engineer, Volumes 63 à 641920 |
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Page 74 - What of the City?" by AC McClurg & Company, with the subtitle, "America's Greatest Issue — City Planning, What it Is, and How to Go About it to Achieve Success.
Page 74 - Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with evergrowing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Page 50 - Ethics in a general sense is defined as "the science of right conduct and character; the science which treats of the nature and grounds of moral obligation and of the rules which ought to determine conduct in accordance with this obligation; the doctrine of man's duty in respect to himself and the rights of others.
Page 130 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1.
Page 115 - THE Executive Committee of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as trustees of the travelling scholarship founded by Pierre L.
Page 105 - ... combustible summer piece or fireboard shall be used in connection with any open fireplace. The firebacks of all fireplaces shall be of solid masonry not less than 8 inches thick. 16. When a grate is set in a fireplace, a lining of firebrick at least 2 inches in thickness shall be added to the fireback, or soapstone, tile or cast iron may be used, if solidly backed with brick or concrete. All flue-holes when not in use shall be closed with tightfitting metal covers. Protection of woodwork around...
Page 105 - No kitchen range or stove in any building shall be placed less than 3 feet from any woodwork or wooden lath and plaster partition, unless the woodwork or partition is properly protected by metal shields, in which case the distance shall be not less than 18 inches. Metal shields shall be so attached as to preserve an air space behind them.
Page 90 - An architect should be ingenious, and apt in the acquisition of knowledge; ... he should be a good writer, a skillful draughtsman, versed in geometry and optics, expert at figures, acquainted with history, informed on the principles of natural and moral philosophy, somewhat of a musician, not ignorant of the sciences both of law and physics, nor of the motions, laws, and relations to each other of the heavenly bodies.
Page 106 - No chimney shall be started or built upon any floor or beam of wood. In no case shall a chimney be corbeled out more than eight inches from the wall, and in all such cases the corbeling shall consist of at least five courses of brick.
Page 105 - The brickwork of the smoke flues of all low-pressure boilers, furnaces, bakers' ovens, large cooking ranges, large laundry stoves, and all flues used for a similar 'purpose shall be at least eight inches in thickness, and...