Identifier: architectenginee6220sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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ng the most attractive design, that sways him many times unconsciously to design what he thinks is more beautiful instead of what is most practical. It is like an automobile builder saying he could design a more attractive car if he could put the radiator in the rear or the steering wheel in the steerage, but when he really has the subject under control he finds that obstreperous points blend into one another, or of necessity must be a certain way and he works out a system adapted to fit them. There are many examples of this blending of technical requirements into a perfect harmony in late theatres, notably Keiths Theatre in Syracuse, New York; The Strand in New York City, and in an entirely different style, in Graumans, Los Angeles, or even in a less degree in the Rialto and Capital Theatres in New York City. wmdi- , W^^^ u4SSs , BHHtM^ \ - \ ■■ ■■■ ,:-,»s«^^*** ;«• Balcony, State Lake Theatre, Chicago Cornelius Ward Rapp, George Leslie Rapp and G. Albert Lansburgh, Associate Architects
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Childrens Playroom and Nursery State Lake Theatre, Chicago 78 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER The architect must be complete master of the entire subject to satisfactorily swing the whole interior into a peaceful, flowing, harmonious composition without sacrificing a single detail considered necessary to the most practical operation of the theatre itself. While this degree of perfection has been attained in certain theatres throughout the country, over more or less areas in the buildings, it is very seldom that this is true of the entire plant. The Strand Theatre in New York City is a most perfect example of harmonious blending of curves, uniting or rather making, the ornamentation fit the requirements of space available. But this applies wholly to the front of the house—the auditorium, promenade, lobby, etc.—and not the space back of the proscenium, and to the whole to meet all ther equirements of a motion picture theatre exclusively. This house i slocated on what is probably the most valuabl

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