International studio (59.1916)

Co-operation in Art


SKETCH FOR TOLEDO BRIDGE
RALPH MOJESKI, ENGINEER

ARNOLD W. BRUNNER, ARCHITECT

oversee the construction of roads and gardens.
He may make a succes d’estime, but should he
make even a partial failure in such unaccustomed
or gratuitous work will it not injure his reputa-
tion, which he would like to have depend upon
his architecture alone?
The landscape architect and the architect
once associated in city planning may decide that
the extent of the work is such that an engineer
is needed, too. In a very large city a traffic en-
gineer may be needed, for upon the solution of

the rapid transit problems the success of the work
may depend.
An example of such joint responsibility in city
planning is the work of Mr. F. L. Olmsted and
Mr. A. W. Brunner, in Denver, on the civic cen-
tre now well under way. This, it may be un-
necessary to state, is not simply a civic centre
to be compared and judged with other civic cen-
tres, but it is Denver’s civic centre designed to
fit the local conditions of topography and climate,
and to give room for the future expression of


FIRST STUDY FOR BRIDGE, CONNECTING RAILWAY, LONG ISLAND

ARNOLD W. BRUNNER ARCHITECT

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