"Boulder Dam is frankly a harness put on Mother Nature. But it is a harness so well designed that it impresses one as might an embellishment in a great park. It is distinctly not just a dam or just a power plant."

"It is not until a moving speck on the power house level proves to be a he-man, that one appreciates the dimensions with which one has to deal."

Vitruvius, Junior, "The Architect Smiles," California
Arts and Architecture (July, 1939), p. 15