Architect and engineer . oargue the appropriateness of this tradition, estlietically and historically,to the Santa Barbara country. It has amply demonstrated its fitness;all of the designers in the group engaged in working out a serious SantaBarbara architecture have turned instinctively to one or another of .itsphases; it has received puljiic approbation, even to the extent of lipservice from speculating contractors, Mr. Smiths wcn-k looks back,not so much to the Mission architecture of early California as tothe simple work of those parts of Spain which still retain sporadicpiquant traces of
Architect and engineer . oargue the appropriateness of this tradition, estlietically and historically,to the Santa Barbara country. It has amply demonstrated its fitness;all of the designers in the group engaged in working out a serious SantaBarbara architecture have turned instinctively to one or another of .itsphases; it has received puljiic approbation, even to the extent of lipservice from speculating contractors, Mr. Smiths wcn-k looks back,not so much to the Mission architecture of early California as tothe simple work of those parts of Spain which still retain sporadicpiquant traces of the Moorisli occupation. But it is free from the 54 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER archaelogical taint, personally conceived, and handled with refreshing-freedom. The country where Mr. Smith works asks for nothing better thansimplicity, sobriety, sincerity, quiet taste and good breeding. These hehas bestowed in generous measure. When an atmosphere as intenselyhuman as his becomes the rule rather than the exception throughout. STUniO ENTRANCE. HdlSK ol- MK. (,LllUi,l m SMITH. SANTA Washington Smith. Architect our countryside the See America First propagandists will have some-thing more valid than patriotism on which to base their pleas. Warmsunshine gleaming on clean white walls between hillside oaks; luminous,transparent shadows across the native stubbly ground and luxuriantgarden patches; spacious rooms behind cool gray reveals which temperthe summer heat; all of these things have become integral with thecountry as inevitably as the building of longer standing in the Old academic critic might be moved to complain that Mr. Smiths THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 55 buildings contain no arciiitecture, so uncompromisingly has he dismissedthe entire paraphernalia of traditional architectural respectability. Pic-turesque masses of plain walls in undulating lime-white plaster; windowsirregularly, judiciously spotted, Init severely plain in generous reveal
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