Author : Pamela Skewes-Cox
Release : 2015-10-13
Genre : Architecture
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Spanish Colonial Style - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Colonial Style write by Pamela Skewes-Cox. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Spanish Colonial Style available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An ode to the classic Spanish-style houses of Santa Barbara. Spanish Colonial Style celebrates an extraordinary tradition in architecture whose hallmarks include whitewashed stucco and plaster walls, wood-beamed ceilings, dramatic fireplaces, and, above all, mystery and romance. Homes in this much-loved style of architecture welcome the visitor and embrace the resident, and architects James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig, early proponents of the style and influential disseminators of it, were masters of the form. Their work, until now, has been largely underappreciated and little seen. The Craigs played pivotal roles in the development of the Spanish Colonial Revival and of other styles of architecture in Santa Barbara, and the influence of their work spread much beyond that. In addition to shining a long overdue spotlight on the rich career of these tremendously influential architects, Spanish Colonial Style also heralds Santa Barbara as the small city of international importance that it became in the first half of the twentieth century.