Identifier: architectenginee11534sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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nasium where freedom for play mustbe unrestricted, the shops where noise and there was a desire to build into the VallejoJunior High School an historic backgroundthat would recall the early California his-tory of the city and its great founder,General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Itwas in the early stages of planning that theboard decided the building should be defi-nitely a California design, with motifs ofthe Mission style bearing a relation to the THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 14 ► FEBRUARY. NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR structures of the Padres. TheVallejo Junior resemble to a degree the proportions High School may be described as California of the adobe bricks used in the early Cali- architecture. It is low and wide spread. Its fornia buildings. plan is essentially a one story scheme tied An educational unit with its large together with corridors and patios in a form window area class rooms is difficult to resembling somewhat the early missions of handle architecturally and such a building
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Fhoto by Moulin MARIANO GUADALUPE VALLEJO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. VALLEJOFrederick H. Reimers. Architect California. The architect studied carefullythe proportions of the arcades of San ;uanBaptista. the parapets of San Gabriel andthe towers of Santa Barbara and the subtleinequalities and the details of their archi-tecture have been worked into the designof this modern building. This Californiacharacter is further accentuated by theuse of a cast cement block construc-tion for the walls, the proportions of which is usually uninteresting in spite of the skillof the architects. In the Vallejo school theforeground is laid out with low one-storywings and in this one story portion havebeen placed the rooms that permitted of anarchitectural handling not stilted by win-dow^ requirements. Behind this arcaded onestory portion is a spacious open patiowhere children and teachers may gatherfor open air classes, out-door plays and THE ARCHITECT AND ENG1NEEJ< ^ 15 ► FKBRUARY. NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR s

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