Plastician

"Quite apart from the question of finance and the basic difficulty of finding the very large sums for completely refacing buildings, the writer personally comes down solidly on the side of the "plastician" rather than the "face-lifter"."

"Tho first plastician was not a scientist, but with the gront demands of modern civilization the plastician today is attempting to systematize and simplify his job"

"I am an architect, a plastician, a constructor. In trying to explain the circumstances of the invention of a working tool meant for people engaged on construction, I have thought and written from the architect's standpoint."

"Even those who would practise a form of modern architecture (such as Le Corbusier. who is basically a cubist painter and plastician) conceive of architecture as painting, or as abstract composition in three dimensions, around which, but not in which, man walks in admiration."

"And this is particularly true in operative work on the face; and especially in the repair of breaches made by excision around the eye, mouth and nose; for here the experienced plastician, by studied plan, can often cover or disguise unsightly lines left by the scalpel; or if this be denied, then such lines may sometimes be so shifted as to be invisible. By such work the plastician will win parental gratitude by relieving the face of childhood of unsightly scars; and surgical art will gratify age when it utilizes the latter's furrows for plastic disguises."