Willis Polk — American Architect born on October 03, 1867, died on September 10, 1924

Willis Jefferson Polk was an American architect best known for his work in San Francisco, California. For ten years, he was the West Coast representative of D.H. Burnham & Company. In 1915, Polk oversaw the architectural committee for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition... (wikipedia)

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.
Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.