Architect and engineer . t willmake it more intelligent, fruitful and bene-ficial. It will become a gentlemans game ofcompetition—like golf, perhaps. Each manplays his ball as best he can and when atee plants him in the rough, the others willwillingly join in the search. This program is inherently the youngmans work—the enthusiasm of his youth,his faith, courage, his vision and imagina-tion, will go farther than experience. Heis the product of the present generation andmore readily responds to the pulse of thepresent tempo. There is a tremendous un-tilled field lying before us. Its potentialpo
Architect and engineer . t willmake it more intelligent, fruitful and bene-ficial. It will become a gentlemans game ofcompetition—like golf, perhaps. Each manplays his ball as best he can and when atee plants him in the rough, the others willwillingly join in the search. This program is inherently the youngmans work—the enthusiasm of his youth,his faith, courage, his vision and imagina-tion, will go farther than experience. Heis the product of the present generation andmore readily responds to the pulse of thepresent tempo. There is a tremendous un-tilled field lying before us. Its potentialpossibilities bafifle the imagination. Theprofession of architecture, considered in allits phases, is probably one of the most im-portant in the present civilization. Whatare we going to do about it? Shall we cre-ate an atmosphere favorable to it, or con-tinue trudging along in the last centurypetticoat of ethics which retard our move-ments—as the rest of the world goes by. 90 AflCHlTECT AND ENGINEER. September, 1930. PRELIMINARY STUDY OF POSSIBLE CIVIC CENTER, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIAC0PVRK;HT, society of architects of ALAMEDA COUNTY PLANNING A CIVIC CENTER BY JULIAN C. MESIC T„ .HE Society of Architects of Ala-meda County, responding to their publicresponsibility, are visualizing the civicneeds of a possible million people in thecity of Oakland. In the absence of CityPlanning Commission funds the Societyoffered its services and a special commit-tee has devoted considerable time and studyto this problem. The final result is a modelin full color at a scale of 300 feet to theinch, portraying the character of the out-standing features of the environs of LakeMerritt and the city, south to the has been presented for examination tothe City Planning Commission. Aside from the responsibility of Oak-lands home, cultural and commercial site,its problem is increased by its Merritt, covering a hundred and sixtyacres in the heart of the city, and breakingthe con
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