Architect and engineer . ii i-A 5T-fc,^tt, STrilY FOR THE STRKET IN SPAIN. SANTA JAMES OSBORNE CRAIG, ARCHITECT THE AKCHITKCT AXD KNGINEER 101 darker and the chalk lighter than in the drawing-, producing cruder con-trasts. It has also seemed necessary to do violence to the original com-positions in adapting the material to magazine pages. To have repro-duced the composite sheets as they stand would have left the individualperspectives unintelligibly small; and the only course open was to cutthe drawings arbitrarily into their component members, each of whichcould be
Architect and engineer . ii i-A 5T-fc,^tt, STrilY FOR THE STRKET IN SPAIN. SANTA JAMES OSBORNE CRAIG, ARCHITECT THE AKCHITKCT AXD KNGINEER 101 darker and the chalk lighter than in the drawing-, producing cruder con-trasts. It has also seemed necessary to do violence to the original com-positions in adapting the material to magazine pages. To have repro-duced the composite sheets as they stand would have left the individualperspectives unintelligibly small; and the only course open was to cutthe drawings arbitrarily into their component members, each of whichcould be reproduced at approximately its actual size, or with insignificantreduction. TV. When I said that Mr. Craigs work was destined to affect the courseof architecture in California I did not mean to refer its influence only toan indefinite future. Already his efforts are bearing fruit in a concrete. (,oui;i. UK LA gl:i>i;ua , .sama i;aki;ai;aJames Osborne Craig, Architect pro,iect for the improvement of Santa Barbara; a scheme which, thoughit will be executed by other parties, goes back in its essence to hisconception. This scheme is a rather complex and unique development, or ratherco-ordination of developments, referred to as the de la Guerra Plaza andthe Street in Spain. The undeitaking is in part—l)ut probably no outlineof the project will seem intelligible without a prefatory explanation of thespirit in which Santa Barbara regards its task. Santa Barbara is indeed an unusual phenomenon—a city which doesnot keep one eye fixed on New York. It knows it is small, knows it willpiobai)ly never have an occasion ior being large, and therefore wishes toguide its development along lines not only appropriate to a small city, butproper to its own peculiarities and possibilities. I may be over-zealousin crediting Santa Barbara as a whole with this illuminating d
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