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I didn't come on the scene until the Saturday noon luncheon wrote th is music from the percussive behemoths on which it is now for music critics, followed by the first general meeting of the newly adays expected to be beaten out. formed Southern California Music Critics Circle. The Circle genially That evening Bob Croft conducted the Monteverdi Vespers, the voted its thanks to hosts and hostesses and in the same spirit in audience following the intricate music with the help of thirteen pages vited itself to meet again as guests of another festival to be held of closely detailed program notes . Monteverdi was one of the in September at Santa Barbara. The short time remaining was supreme creative innovators of musical history. There is a long allotted to business: a proposal that the Los Angeles Bureau of playing record of Poul Hindemith conducting the Collegium Musicum Music maintain a record of all advance program schedules, in the of Yale University in a series of choral compositions that begins with hope that by such means duplication of similar programs on the Perotin and ends with Monteverdi. Through an hour of listening some dote may be avoided. It was agreed that a light opera one follows the development of choral counterpoint to its summation opening need not conflict with a program of contemporary chamber in Palestrina and the lusty dissonances of Jacob Handl. Then begins music, a thesis I don't go along with, since in newspaper practice the Monteverdi and one hears with a shock the discovery of modern it does so more often than not. Yet if such a record con be set up harmony, no normal progression but a unique mutation in the entire and kept informed of program schedules as these ore mode and worldwide history of music, vertical masses of chorded tone re consulted, while other schedules ore being put together, many need placing horizontally interwoven counterpoint. With this new means less and self-defeating conflicts can be avoided. Every Jorge musical Monteverdi created the art of Italian opera at a level of dramatic centre needs such a clearing-house. For more than ten years I hove excellence to be reached again only by Mozart and Verdi. Like been urging that such a pion should be initiated in Los Angeles. the best Italian music of every period since that time it is an art of The Ojai concerts resumed Saturday afternoon with the duo voices instrumentally supported, not an instrumental texture including pianists Vera Appleton and Michael Field ploying Brahm s, Mozart, voices in the Germon tradition. Schumann, and the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Bartok. Unfortunately, for it is sacred music, the style of nineteenth cen Properly on indoor program, needing the resonance of an audi tury Italian opera is precisely the style that has been singled out torium, this was played outdoors. The thin, punched clangor of a as offering " the greatest opposition to Gregorian chant and classical piano sounded outdoors without hall resonance is not improved polyphony" and is forbidden to be used in the Roman Catholic when there are two pianos. The conditions were more suitable for liturgy . the Bartok with its glistening percussion accompaniment than for The Vespers consists of twelve numbers followed by a Magnifrcot Mozart or Brahms; yet the Schumann Andante and Variations, the in twelve sections. The form is additive, without development; the lightest and most lyrical of the pieces, come off best-I suppose classical developmental forms had not been invented. Solo voices because the tone, being softer, did not so sharply fall away imme and chorus interchange and elaborate ideas; solo entrances ore diately ofter being struck. Thin in the cold air the Brahms-Haydn taken up and worked into multiple counterpoints; duets, trios, and Variations seemed more than usually unable to compete with the accompanied solos alternate with massive choruses; all supported, familiar orchestral version : both Brahms originals. I believe and enlarged and made glorious by strings and brasses, on impasto of sod experience hos confirmed my opinion that no two-piano team Venetian color like the canvases of Titian. con play the Mozart Sonata season after season and continue Until lately we have not known how to toke this music. We hove making music of it. The musical intercourse of the two instruments treated it too solemnly, sung it too slowly and cautiously, in pre becomes a precision act, acrobatic without risks. 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A_ scholo.rly disputation hos raged around the text of the Vespers, disagreeing over each detail of editing and performance. t For this occasion Robert Craft and Lawrence Morton cut through arta arc~itectoro the tissue of arguments, the veils of historical distance, and brought the music bock to its original vitality and, so for as the acoustics and the place permitted, its intended tonal liveliness. The heavy COMPLETE? varnish of mu sicology was cleared off by speeding up the pace * beyond the point of easy following with the score. This is on ex· ception. The choir and instrumentalists of St. Marks were virtuoso 1954 performers of the flrst order; the taste of Venice was sumptuous, ex pensive, oligarchic, and worldly. We may presume that these mer· chants and their wives admired the texture of the music as it 1953 reached them brilliantly blurred by the echoing dome, brasses, back copies voices, strings, organs, and theorbos, in that order of intensity, 1952 intermingled like o banquet, furred and satined. These listeners are still did not share music democratically like the Germans singing in their parish churches. Germany was then chastened, Venice was available 1951 not yet chastened. Music like that of Gabrieli, or these Vespers, was performed in Venice by the best obtainable musicians. We may 1950 presume that virtuosity governed, and the speed of performance was, for that time, what the speed of this performance was for us . Such an explanation clarifies the mingling of contrapuntal forms, in short extensions, with solos more than fit for a contemporary ORDER YOURS NOW! opera, the choral importance of the orchestra, matched by the $.50 each 12 copies-$5.00 orchestral use of chorus. The Vespers were intended to delight the human ear at a time of scepticism that had substituted for the dif ficulties of theology the worm cult of Mory. The first port of the Vespers is directed to the honor of God: Domine ad adiuvandum (Psalm 70:1) and Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110). Then the subject arts & architecture, dept. I changes to imagery locking liturgical justificati on : " And the two seraphim cried unto one another ..." The program note is evoca· 3305 WILSHIRE BLVD., LOS ANGELES 5, CALIFORNIA tive: "With its runs, echo effects, repeated notes on a single vowel DUnkirk 31161 sound, imitations of one voice by the other, and passages in sonor ous thirds, it calls for truly seraphic virtuosity. It ... achieves a •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• kind of mystical ecstasy, as though the composer himself hod shored • the rapture of the prophet." The fact seems to me more simple: • desk fit YOU ... two tenors, o baritone, and continuo ravishing the ears of the con· • Make your gregation, the tenor voices like seraphim echoing one another across the vast interior space. It is pointing in sound, presence instead of DESKS and representation. Then Nisi Dominus: " Except the Lord build the house" for ten STORAGE UNITS port double chorus, broken by antiphonal verses. You hove to imagine the setting, in this house of the Lord, the Temple as Tin toretto saw it when Mory at the foot of the tiered steps looks up Free cotalog shows ports plus 22 basic assemblies ... to the High Priest, olso how to plan small singlo, or large multiple desks Confronting the forked beard and the twi-horned headdress, thot ore efficient, smort, inexpensive. ~- Mary, child and Mother of God, bearer of the sacrifice ... Choice of finishes. - .,;: And then the Pulchro es: " Thou art beautiful, 0 my love, beautiful -:::::- and comely, 0 daughter of Jerusalem," sung by two sopranos with continuo, the words bearing multiple secular, historical, and religious ) 2000-4 Assembly meanings. So follows the Loetatus sum: " I was glad when they said unto me: Let us go into the house of the Lord," for six-port chorus, solo voices, and instruments. Venetian religion like our own par Showinq took of worldly wealth and complacency. Venice in o sense rejoices 12000.2 in itself, in St. Marks, a psychological rapture of the rejoicing senses. DESK ASSEMBLY The music violates the sombre canon, planting the rapture firmly ond 1208 CHAIR in the heart of man, in the surrender to possessions. We expect such music of our own orchestras; we pay for it; we go abroad to seek it; we translate into such festival terms the spore religious music of the past. Now the emotion rises and returns to Mary: Are maris stella, a traditional Gregorian hymn, set here for eight-port double chorus, solo voices, and instruments: • "Hail, 0 star that pointest • Towards the port of heaven, Thou to whom as maiden • L. A. Showroom • Herman Schlorman God for Son was given." e 8820 Beverly Blvd. 1200A·b Assembly • Which is followed by the flrst emotional climax: Sonata sopra Sancta • COSTA MESA FURNITURE MFG. CO • Maria, o symphony for instruments and unison voices around eleven • repetitions of a single vocal phrase, "Holy Mory, pray for us! " "The • Dept. 2 -A • 2037 Placentia • Costa Mesa, Calif. • l l 8-6332 • total effect is one of growing intensity-the ninth statement of the • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A VISTA FURNITURE AFFILIATE • chant, for instance, having its rhythm broken so as to suggest that JUNE 1955 7 the supplicant can scarcely muster strength to utter the prayer once more": baroque, dramatic, secular music, modern and built on a harmonic bass, music designed to stir up the emotions. " We in the twentieth century have so deeply imbibed the Ro mantic tradition that we take certain standards as generally valid. Does the composition sound well? Does it affect our emotions of the moment? These questions that assume such great importance today were barely raised at other times. The wallowing in sound standard and rug face for expressive reasons is another characteristic. Composers for MODULAR centuries before and after Machaut hardly cared whether a work 3x3 3/a x11 3/a was sung or played, fiddled or blown, or performed by individuals or larger ensembles. Similarly, the question whether a composition was ' moving' did not occupy the forefront of attention ... People of all times and ploces have experienced emotional responses to music. But the emphasis on the one or the other quality of a com basic position has shifted." Or again, quoting Huizinga: "Whoever today were to draw the dividing line between higher and lower pleasures of life according to the dictates of our ethical conscience, would no longer separate art from sensuality, nature from sport, or aspiration from naturalness , . . . rug face b ut only egotism, falseness, and vanity from purity.• COMMON The modern revival of sacred music in secular performance en 3 % x2 112 x8 1/.c ables us to en joy the composer's art, to respond ta his spiritual honesty, to place and appreciate his conception in its cultural set ting, while standing aside from the liturgical argument. bricks The Vespers are modern music even by comparison with Bach. Though the origins lie deep in Renaissance and Medieval style, the Vespers belong with the Requiems of Berlioz, Brahms, and Verdi rather than with the Masses of Beethoven and Bach . (Stravinsky's Mass, by contrast, is designed for liturgical acceptance and was therefore coldly received at first hearing, because it does not out .. . STEELTYD wardly appeal to our desire for immediate exaltation ct any cost). 3 1/.x3 l/.x10 Emotional instead of intellectual! the common listener immediately responds, as if that made a difference; but the Requiems by Berlioz, Brahms, and Verdi are determinedly non-conformist and intellectual. to fill Mind calls to mind by way of the senses : we hear, therefore we think. In Bach or Beethoven composition is explanation; the design of the sound amplifies every detail of the text. The earl ier and proper music of the Catholic liturgy neither explains nor expounds; its purpose is to reinforce the liturgical utterance. These ere difficult distinctions. Understanding them we free ourselves from the domina tion of our own limited cu lture, our contemporary religious sophistica .. . angle tion, end become aware of exaltations unlike ours. Free ourselves STEELTYD- 3 11• x3 11• x 10 for what? the mystic may ask, secure and enshrined in strict dog matic reservations. MODULAR-3 3/a x3%x11 3/a every By our standards the Vespers belong among the supreme master pieces of music in any form but not among the supreme masterpieces of religious music. The style is of its culture and worldly, like the religious paintings by Titian and Tintoretto; it expresses to the full the power of religious sentiment. The Vespers could have been written, as Verdi wrote his Requiem, by an agnostic. Are the sacred p aintings of Titian and Tintoretto banned by the ch urch? So the Psalms continue: Laudate Pueri (Psalm 1131 followed by a hymn Audi coe/um (Heaven hear my words), another display piece for the solo tenors, dramatically interrupted by the chorus; La uda . . . COMMON design Jerusalem (Psalm 47: 12-20) for seven solo voices, syncopated and 3%x2 1/2x8 1/• hot, followed by a gorgeous soprano aria, Nigro sum, from The Song of Solomon : " I am black but comely . . . Therefore the king hath loved me and hath brought me into his chambers. My beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, th e winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing is come." The am biguous attitude of the Jewish and Christian churches toward this text, deeply rooted in the pagan seasonal and sexual origins of • religion, the fertility rituals, justifies this music. requirement And the aria continues with the first word, Ma9nificat, of the twelve-phrase final section, "My soul doth magnify the Lo rd," the MODULAR CLAY BLOCK song of Mary when the babe leaped in her womb. If the body, 6"-5 % x3 3/e xl 1 3/e if the senses also call to God, if through them also is a way, then 8"- 7 5/s x3 3/s x11 3/e * Gui//oume de Machaut by Siegmund Levarie: New York, Sh eed and * Mer i t Sp e cif i ed fo r Cose Study Hous e 1 7 Ward, 1954. The chapter on Problems of a Religious Composer, from which I have quoted, discusses, with unusual sympathy for each side of the problem, the issues raised by the edict of Pope Pius X, Motu Proprio (1903), the p resent rule governing the place of music DAVIDSON BRICK COMPANY in the Roman Catholic service. The rule restored Gregorian chant 4701 Floral Drive Los Angeles 22, Calif. ANgelus 1- 1178 to its liturgical predominance. 8 ARTS & ARCHITECTURE this music is justified, not only in its cultural setting, where it is ambiguous, but before humanity, in spite of Motu Proprio . "Is the sabbath made for man, or man for the sabbath?" I leave the ar gument to theologians. The music mounts through the successive phrases of the Magnificat, bringing out again the solo voices, the choruses, the instrumental interludes, a recapitulation of the entire preceding drama, to !he final climax of the doxology, the verbal refrain of praise that hos been heard in many settings at the end of each psalm section. This is religious music, as the Requiems of Berlioz, Brahms, and Verdi ore religious music; though the composer may be a non-believer, or limited within the conceptions of his culture, his intention has been to express the spirit of man praising God. Of other composers we may ask more, explicitly, but not of these. They have given their utmost. Credit and honor for the musical revelation go to Robert Craft, who conducted, to Lawrence Morton, who assisted him for many months in preparing the score and wrote the invaluable program notes, to William F. Russell who prepared the Pomona College Glee Clubs, to the members of the Glee Clubs, to the soloists, Phyllis Althof and Marilynn Horne, sopranos, Margery MocKaye, mezzo. soprano, Richard Robinson and Paul Salamunovich, tenors, Howard Ch itjian, baritone, and Charles Scharbach, bass, to Dorothy Wade, concertmistress, and the orchestra. It was one of those performances where you feel like congratulating everybody. You find yourself in the aisle exchanging compliments with strangers. The hall was packed and people sitting outside the doors. It was a sacred smash. The last program, Sunday afternoon, was in no way an anti Weathersealed steel frames climax. A large audience spread out beyond the seats on the grass for sliding glass door walls. slopes of the bowl. The immense sycamore supplied proscenium Horizontal sliding windows. arch and a sense of enclosing auditorium. At the precise hour the Custom made or low cost STEELBILT, INC. orchestra broke into the Greeting Prelude by Stravinsky, a one-minute stock sizes and models. Gardena, California setting of Happy Birthday written for the eightieth birthday of Complete curtain wall system. Pierre Monteux. Patented engineering features. First novelty of the program was the Accompaniment to a Cinema· tographic Scene, opus 34, by Arnold Schoenberg, in three sections (threatening danger, fear, catastrophe), the expressionistic side of Schoenberg's art I core for least. It was last heard in these parts when Nicholas Slonimsky outraged the mandarins by conducting a series of contemporary music programs at Hollywood Bowl-and destroyed himself as a conductor doing so. A similar series today Picture 4our Jiving room would be called a Modern Music Festival. It could scarcely include with this end-table that is a tea-cart. a better set of programs. Slonimsky's judgement has turned out to be as accurate as it was premature. Let us therefore praise the mandarins. The second novelty was the Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D, con ducted by the composer, with Eudice Shapiro as the magnificent soloist. Eudice Shapiro, as concertmistress, chamber musician, solo ist, is one of the world's great violinists. She is regarded in Los Angeles as Niagara Falls is looked at by those who live there and pass it every day in the week. Perhaps fortunately, because we have her with us fresh and wonderful each season. Anyway, she looked and ployed as well as ever, not covering up the difficulties but making them exciting, as they should be; and Stravinsky was obviously as happy as a meadow lark. It was o great performance, making one question again why this most wittv of violin concertos-a type of music seldom dignified by wit-has been disdained by orchestras and soloists, why Stravinsky himself has so seldom programmed it. Orchestral players should delight in it; every instrument has its solo, culminating in a joyous duet be tween the violin and the bassoon and an exchange of melodic pleas antries with the concertmistress. The composer has amused himself by exploring every variant of the oompah bass. The Toccata open ing touches each sound in the orchestra; the first Aria is learned, the ~tondi 1n o c0 conduct Brahms. I heard it fresh. I was not the Brahms we had ex pected. It was not a mellow, profound interpretation in the authori· designed by tative manner of Bruno Walter. It was not a Steinbergian display piece, hoaxed up band concert fashion to astound those who, as Finn Juhl I remarked earlier, prefer good intentions. Craft gave us a simple classical reading, in strict tempi, the parts carefully distinguished, the syncopations relished, the melodies rounded and counterpointed -that is to say, the counterpoints not harmonically subordinated to an all-inclusive unctuousness-, the trombones urged to dance they need not be always funereal or profound, as Stravinsky in the Violin Concerto demonstrates-in short, a clearly planned, tasteful cooking of a symphony that is usually roasted in emotion and basted with sentiment. During the scherzo, I am sure they had not wired that bird to the tree or recorded it like Respighi's nightingale, a mocker at the top of the sycamore, and another slightly more distant, obliged with a sort of ostinato solo that would I am sure have brought a smile of appreciation, if not gratitude, beneath the beard of Brahms. With the start of the finale the bird tastefully recognized that these Ger man excesses no longer suited his vocabulary and ceased singing. J. 0. B. 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"The abstraction 'architecture' tracked down to its referents, becomes o trio of emotions--emotion intended, emotion inherent, and emotion evoked. The common element is emotion, and if one must use a single term to define a rchitecture, that is it. Architecture is emotion. If the emotion is mild, so is the archi tecture. If the emotion is great, the architecture is g reat. If there is no emotion, there is no a rchitecture." A complication here, not so much in the method, but in the individual's choice of the elements of the whole. Dr. Suzanne Lan ger, for exa mple, in FEELING AND FORM, slates that: "Nothing is more haphazard than the employment of words, illusion, reality, cre ation, construction, arrangement, form, and space, in the writings of modern architecture." Concluding after o reasoned, a lthough non-general semantic manner, that architecture is an illusion. Frank Lloyd Wright might conclude that architecture is spirit: " ... spirit in objectified forms." One could with some manipulation, substitute various other referents and determine that architecture is not only emotion but any of the mentioned abstractions, or even o com bination of severa l. Mr. Robert Woods Kennedy finds it to be in tellectual os well os emotional. Mr. Raskin's choice seems lim ited, a lthough his meaning is clear, amusing, and mode even more en ioyoble by Robert Osborn's very funny drawings. In o comprehensive and pragmatic volume (of more than 500 pa ges) devoted largely to the upper-middle doss groups, Mr. Ken nedy d issects and examines the space requirements, the interrelation ships of zones and areas, shows the relationship of the human body to its housing: " Houses are only extensions of people-they are nothing in themselves- and os such ore most satisfactory when they reflect the whole man." In reflecting the whole man, one must use the findings of the experts in biology, sociology, psychol ogy and other fields. The a uthor employs o proliferation of excel lent source materials in the findings of such men os Lewis Mumford, Veblen, Thoreau, Gesell and Ilg , Worner and Lunt, Dr. Benjamin Spock and many another, and further enhances and amplifies his efforts with drawings, graphs, charts, photographs and plans. For the particulars of living in a house involve a host of minutiae: the roles and quotidian needs of housewives, husbands, babies, chil drP.n, teen-agers, grandparents and even guests; the mixed daily traffic, streams crossing streams, conflicts, the changes from youth to old age . . . "The skeleton of the house must always be pro portioned to ma n's. Its entrails and nervous system must be partia lly hidden as are man's. Its exterior envelope must be related to man's, and most of all, its moods must be variegated." Quite possibly, our house is now inadequate both physically and aesthetically. Maybe we are as mice in a maze in a house of many cubicles and doors; or as moths with claustrophobia between gloss walls in o picture window affair; or os troglodytes peering securely from cove-like structures better designed for moles; perhaps in an exhibition-like package with little but space-dividers to limit the noise; ve ry likely in an assortment of accretions from other places and times. What we do in o house should determine its plan. From the plan, form will follow for better or worse, depending upon the cl ient, the a rchitect, a nd the harmonious relationship of the two. As the doctor has a bedside manner, so the architect a site-side one. On the caprices of cl ients and the vagaries of architects there is an important chapter. The proper d istance between client and architect; the client as a creative agent or catalyst in the process; and a view of the professional hierarchy with trenchant remarks on that subject. This portion of the book is a must for any prospective (Co111 il111ed 011 Pag< 32) in passing If science is the most powerful force acting on than explaining atomic energy. In o sense it will, society, then Einstein's idea that energy con be in many lands, require what amounts to o cul created out of matter is now the primary force tural revolution. for change in man's way of life and in his atti It will involve first the adoption of the scientific tude toward the universe. This will become evi attitude of mind which is in its essence one of dent during the next fifty years, perhaps by the welcoming o problem to be solved-whether it end of the century - and that means within the be a problem in mathematics, mechanics or period when our present youth and children will science, whether it be o problem in economics, inherit the earth. world trade or in relations between social classes Science enforces social change. Yet to the hu or between notions. In on unscientific culture a man mind change is seldom welcome. It is op problem of whatever sort is often the occasion posed because it is feared and feared because for despair, for violence or for prayer. Then a it is not understood. The fear of the atomic bomb problem is a thing to be avoided because the is universal and hysterical. The fear of the bene answer seldom comes with it. flcient atom will develop later when its conse But the scientific mind thrives on problems, quent social changes become evident. Govern analyses them, attempts one solution ofter an ments may decree that such changes ore de other until the answer is found, usually on the sirable and will result in improved living for more basis of past experience or general principles. In people. So they will, probably. But if means science most problems eventually-though some are not taken in advance to safeguard the in times only ofter extended and patient effort dividual persons who will be displaced or whose find a satisfoctory answer. Thus scientists typi lives will be changed, evil results will accompany cally welcome a problem as a challenge to their the good. intelligence, as on inspiration to their best It cannot be forgotten that the industrial re thought. Such on attitude will certainly be needed volution that followed the invention of the steam in the face of the enormous possibilities that ore engine created appalling social conditions in inherent in the atomic project. England a century and o half ago, chiefly be Secondly, on economy based on atomic cause no one foresaw the inevitable develop energy must certainly adopt what is often called ments. This time consequences must be foreseen. the scientific method but which is in fact the Above all, the element of fear must be reduced simple method of experiment. Its first impulse or eliminated. is to " try it and see," if possible on a small scale, Since fear is usually fear of the unknown, the in order to test whether the idea, explanation or preventative of fear is education. The United project is correct or feasible. In the down of the Notions project for the wide use of atomic atomic age there will be numberless concepts energy and materials must consider well the and plans in engineering, public works, legal experience in the work of Technical Assistance measures and social readjustments, whose con to underdeveloped countries, namely that new sequences cannot be foreseen for lack of expe powers, new methods and new wealth cannot be rience. It will be the part of wisdom to test imposed by the donation of machines and fa such ideas experimentally and to adopt o con cilities, however precious, unless they are un clusion or a pion ofter such tests and not hastily derstood and ore welcomed by a people that under pressure of emotion or prejudice. understands them and wonts both them and their Such considerations ore cultural. They imply consequences. not the substitution of science for on unscientific The atomic power project is therefore not culture but the integration of scientific attitudes merely o matter of placing great nuclear re with cultural ideas that hove come down through actors in countries that need more energy and the centuries, largely untouched by science. In more wealth. It requires not merely the educa many industrial countries scientific ideas hove tion of scientists and engineers. Even more it perhaps been all too dominant so that ethical needs o preliminary programme that may re principles and spiritual ideas hove faded. A quire years but must prepare the minds and the synthesis would therefore be desirable on both hearts of the peoples who are to receive its sides. If this is so, a profound revival of values benefits for the changes that are to come. is everywhere desirable. Such education of the public, and particularly If the atomic age is to be one of plenty, of of the adult public, in turn means much more good living and of benefits both brood and deep (Co111i11 11ed 011 P.ip,t• 31) ,. ·"' • , •• ..... ~· .. ,.i I •• .. ., r ,., ) ~ ' \ ~ ~ \ ( ~ t ., IS\! 4 • • a ~- ~r: ~t. e. G. (. ' J ~ 1 ~ 0 " ~t I).. >' Iv ~_, ~it ~ ~ ...... '~ ~ ,.,,. ll'- ,;: ~ ,.,. .. ~. §., I'. ~ PROJECTS FROM A MASTERPLAN FOR A SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT Antonin Raymond and L. L. Rado, architects This project for Lhe City of Long Beach. in California. is a carefully studied plan for the proper u;.e. and in !;Orne ca;.es rehabiliLalion, David Leavitt, Associate of a ix-mile. crescent shape shoreline development. The propo al is a complete study of the planned facilities for approximately 14. million beach \ i!>ilors a year and proposes a complete r Lem of public recreation. Tht• projtct divides itself in nine major sections \\hich will include restaurants. concert pavilions. change bathhouses, F. Ellwood Allen Organization, wimming pools. a marine reslauranl, plazas. game areas. fishing Park and Recreation Planners piers, drives and parking arcali. Above: Bixby Park An integrated park cle,elopment combining Bixby and Bluff Park:. with the shoreline. A series of four parall el terraces, l.200 feet long and 60 Lo 80 feet "ide, step do\\ n from Ocean Boule' ard to the beach. Leps and rnmps provide access to each level and to the beach below. There is an underpa:-s beneath the boulevard. :,played at each end. \\hich connt•ct:o Lhe park "ith the shoreline. The change bath hou e is at the "e"L end of Lhe park. A parking area at each end i easily acccs!.iiblc. Right: Plaza Alamitos A large paved area slightly aboYe the beach strand. The pavement i!.i broken by struclure;; and great ma::-ses of planting, and various conce sions. lt i::- Lhe focal poinl of activily in this porlion of Lh e shoreline wi1h direct access to Lhc audilorium. ex hibition hall and parking areas; ramps at both l'nd:. of the P laza lead Lo an upper level. The ballroom is poi~ed on graceful concrete arches al the north end of the Plaza. Its entire• ~Lructu re is cantilevered out over the Esplanade and Lhe beach. It is on Lwo le\els \\ilh a bridge connt'cting Lhe struc ture \1ith the promenade on the upper level. Concentric circles of tables ::.tep do,,n a\'a) from the ballroom floor providing an excellent view of the ocean and the beach. The shell dome i ound-absorbent, insulated concrele. The lo\1 er le' el provides spact' for rental con cession::- and 'arious service;.. Restaurant and supper club: A grt'al concrete canopy "hich spring;, from three tee! pi\'Oh resting almost on the terrace itself. compo~ed of three diamond shaped arches, concave rather than the u ual . . .-~·· ' ..- . '. ' . . ~r . ·. •'" ; / / • . ;, . ."/- . ' .• . .,,/ --..-..;:.L>. . / •'/ .-+.~-4'.~ .. .( F . ·. '"" :1 11-=------;...--otl . - ,•. F+-_...... _ _:_ - · - . I - t" ~ I J 1 I I ~ 1 1t· : ·j ' _ _..__.._....,__.- l..__~~- +. L, , I x - ....,_,-~ - --- 2 Pl 17.-1 i lL.4.\tlTOS: 1. 8Jl/roo111 (>Ian 3. :> 0111/J 1/,.·a1io11 4. Ballroom 4 14 ,. -- ---- Rt>toJ11r.t11/ um/ Sll/JPrr .-lub: t.~ttrior comex in ,..ection; a h)))t'rbolic-paraholoid ::.hell, it i::. a light and open structure of ad\'anced engineering design. There i... no need for hca\y beams and columns Lo obstruct the vie\\ of the ocean. Lo\\, rectangular \1 in gs on cilher side contain foyer. office..,, bar. private dining rooms, services and kitchen. In the main dining room the tables step do1\ n towards the dance floor in concentric circles. A <;emi· circular mezzanine abcnc i-.. free of the main structure and connects with the roof terrace and kitchen crvicc. A generou:. overhang pro· tects the encircling glass from sun and sky glare. On the south a dining terrace ovcrlooki; the beach and the oceau. The ceiling: is in three concave section:, and lend it elf to spectacular lighting effecL Ri~ht: Open air concert pa,·ilion A large concrete canopy. circular in shape, arching orer Lh<' band stand and amphitheatre for protection from sun and rain. It rests on the ground in two places \\ ith the ground plan, "hich resembles a saucer, tipp<'d upward, a11 ay from the stand. and ramped to the natural grade on the higher -.ide. The music i::o carried forward by the arch and out\\ ard by the concave roof canoµy. The ::tructure i protected from wind by adjustable louvered gla ...... screen. The amphitheatre =-eab 1.000 with additional space prO\ ided around Lhe perimeter. Drc--... ing rl'om .... storage facilities are in a low building behind the band stand oul.!oidc the main arch. 15 Rtsl"""'"' a111J sufJfltr dub: 1u1t thi.i1ion R.stuurimt at1d 111/J/•tr club: south tluutiot1 ·. r ·------Ofltn air co11ctrl /Jdt'ilio11 . :· L~A-Jnr .. CLAIRE FALKEN TEI r by ~11 CHEL TAPlE The recent work of Claire Falkenstein lies at and on that of the new philosophico-scientific Her extraordinary " Sun " series deeply inter the very heart of the adventure which is today's necessities which obtrude unavoidably upon our ests estheticians, philosophers, architects, at the art, that art autre which, after the structural psycho-sensory reflexes. some time that it attracts the subtle antennae of terminus of the classic spirit that Cubism was, At this historic point, we can see to what ex true collectors and art lovers, because these and after the cognizance of its total liquidation tent Claire Falkenstein 's recent work is situated works, bearers of a mysterious magic issuing by Dada, came to life about fifteen years ago in the new zones of efficacity. I wish to cite her from forms and spaces conceived on the plane with, at the start, Mark Tobey in the United States sheared and vigorously fired surfaces, and es of our needs, reveal to us the current prob and Fautrier in Europe. In a movement begun pecially the series of " Suns" which, as an out lems of tensorial calculus, of the dynamic logis in on atmosphere of total anarchy - and it growth of her techniques, suggests a possible tics of controdition, problems of abstract space, could not have been otherwise - among sev future synthesis. of complex relations decipherable only by the eral isolated (and alas quickly imitated) indivi Claire Falkenstein joins to a vivid and rich most contemporary notions of what ' number' can duals, the very slight distance we have come intuition a sort of pantheistic governing wisdom be (infi n i tes i ma I, real transfinite, hypercom still puts at our disposal several hundred, soon which springs no less from a deep intellectual plex . ...). All these things concur to endow perhaps several thousand autre works of indis apprehension of the structural problems essential the new forms with sensory efficacies so rich that, putable value. Any confusion now can lead only to our time. Deporting from long research on with them and by their means, it will one day to an academism of anarchy; we are almost there forms structured not only from the pythagorean be necessary to reconsider the Human Adven already. But this sterile trap, the greatest dan geometries and rhythms, but even more clearly ture, Eroticism, Drama, love, and life which, if ger that attends the art of our time, can be from the organic, and the most freely dynamic these forms be not vitiated by useless academ avoided by throwing up as soon as possible rhythms, she has made the crucial element of isms, must be the foundation of their content. o posteriori in regard to existing works - the her forms continuity, that concept which is one Claire Falkenstein is probably the artist who bases of an esthetic itself outre, without any of the bases of present topology, by which our has led sculpture closest to the heart of that retrospective tie to classic esthetics (and hence whole perception of formal and spatial relations which must be the artistic epos of Now. without systematic opposition), an esthetic at has been challenged. But this is only of the once on the scale of the authentic new works so pertinent aspects of her work. Tran-~lared from th1• Frerwh /, \ Julia R11111/al/ ,.HOTOOftA,.H av LENI 18ELIN 17 ,_HOTOQ"A,.H ey ftAUL. ,.ACCHl'.TTI '• P'HOTOQl'IAfl'H •Y NIGl..L HENOER•ON 18 NO. 17 A CASE STUDY HOUSE Designed by Craig Ellwood Mackintosh and Mackintosh, Consulting Engineers 19 fl'HOTOOftAPHa 11'1' JA90N HAILEY tee/ from Columbia-Genett(] Steel Dfoision. U . . Steel Corporation through Drake . teel Suppl) Com/)any. ~ David E. Harper, General Contractor Raymond Welding & Equipment Company, Steel Fabricators Cipriano Brothers, Masonry Contractors This is the latest in a long series of Cose Study wall panels between columns: steel reinforcing fascia, cantilevered fireplace andirons of 112" House projects undertaken by ARTS & ARCHITEC was minimized because the steel frame is de bar, " jungle gym" of round tubing and 2112 " TURE in on attempt to bring together good de signed to withstand all vertical and horizontal square tubing frame of the glass screened courts. sign, the best of old and new materials, and the loads, including seismic forces. Floor slab construction is Portland Cement con developing techniques of a contemporary build The steel frame is integrated with the design, crete throughout. This type construction was se ing vocabulary. In the main, the magazine hos all steel columns throughout the building are lected because concrete slob floors are quiet to succeeded in its objectives, and we ore happy exposed to become the basic element of the ar walk on, easy to clean, low in cost, vermin and that many of the houses built hove been gener chitecture. Th is exposed steel will be painted termite proof. Also, the "on-grade" construction ally noted as among the distinguished contribu black to contrast crisply with the natural terra better integrates house and garden, eliminating tions to domestic American architecture. It hos cotto color of the clay block. Room partitions steps between floor and terrace. not been our purpose to merely produce proto occur on the module, or mid-module, so that the Concrete floors ore ideally suited to the installa types. It hos been our hope that each of the rhythm of the frame is reflected in the division tion of radiant heat: the coils are simply em projects will hove, by implication and provoca of space and again in the vertical elements. Thus bedded in the concrete during construction. Also, tion, stimulated further developments in the field. there is a complete harmony of structure, plan the heat loss factor is much less in concrete slabs What follows is a report of the progress up and form. than in standard floor joist construction. This to now on Case Study House No. 17. We show Steel insures permanence of form, minimum provides fuel savings and greater comfort. here the steel structure being put in place, and maintenance, and is not subject to moisture and All under-slab water piping is copper tubing, and the almost completed hollow cloy block walls. termite damage. A steel fascia was also speci 112" copper tube hot water radiant heat coils are For those interested in observing the progress fied because wood fascias tend to warp, split placed in the top of the base slab. Finish flooring of the project, its location in the general Beverly and pull apart at joints. throughout is terrazzo "floated " over the base Hills area is north on Cold Water Canyon, at The barbecue unit (see ARTS & ARCHITECTURE, slab with V.." sand bed to minimize cracking. 9554 Hidden Valley Road. May 1955) is constructed of black and stainless Square footage of interior and exterior terrazzo The structural system of the new Cose Study sheet steel. The use of steel here saved consider totals over 7000. House is a modular steel frame. Steel was se able space: structural masonry wall construction Fiberglas insulations will be used throughout the lected for its strength, its permanence and its requires 811 thickness, whereas the steel barbecue structure. One of the photographs shows the in· fine line. The columns are 4"-H- 13 :I±, the beams is "sandwich" construction of 1" thick rigid Fiber stallation of the perimeter insulation of l " thick 5"-1- 10#. The sl ightly higher cost of steel fram glas insulation board wrapped in Vs" sheet steel. asphalt-faced rigid Fiberglas board. This perim ing was offset by o savings in lumber: the steel Steel was also used to cantilever the children's eter insulation will greatly reduce heat loss system allowed the use of 2"x6" ceiling/ roof beds from the wall (see ARTS & ARCHITECTURE, through the exterior foundation walls and the joists, and to maintain the some architectural de September, 1954). Bed framing is 2 1/, "-chonnel- asphalt vapor barrier will prevent moisture seep tailing, equivalent wood beams would be 1 O"x- 3.87#. Miscellaneous steel includes angles used age into the slab. Other Fiberglas products in 1O"s, requiring 2"x 1O'' ceiling/roof joists. for terrazzo screeds at masonry walls and ter clude roof and wall batt insu lation and the new Additional savings were effected in the masonry race ends, flashing angles at top and bottom of Fiberglas Perma-Ply roofing. ( Co11tin11ed 011 P PIN\\ HEEL HOL'SE Uesigned by Peter Blake Paul Weidlinger, Struetural Engineer 21 PHOTOOfll:AflHS ev HAH8 NAMUTH I ~AINTIHQ ev ALl"ON•o os•oR10 Idea: \fo;.L \ aral 1011 hou,.t>:- are de;;igm·d lo \\Ork. rough!), like a rameru: a box. glazed on one .. idc, \\ iLh Lhe ~la;.;. ''all pointed al lhe ,·ie11. The de--igner fo ll lhal lw could mah lhe projecL more inLer6Lin)! if he rould find a ''a~ Lo open Lhe hou,,e to a 1arieL) of vie"" \1iLh a po;;.-:ibility of :-hulling ouL a \ie" occasionally. IL al:-o ;;eems lhat :-ummer li,ing pose- cerLain di;.tin<'L problem,., i.l'.: ho11 to keep cool, ho\1 Lo keep a\\ ay from bugs. how Lo cut oul th e :-un if and \\hen il hecome« Loo insi;;tent. Finally, the concept of :-umm('r·li\ ing a" different from all -year-around li\ ing sugge::.b that in a sum m1•r hou,-e the ;.Jeepini.: quarll'r« and utilitie"' be reduced lo a minimum. and the living quarter,, made a,. :-paciou,, a,. po... ,.ilile. all Lo be de;.igned for a minimum of upket>p. ~ olulion: The pinwheel house seemed both an oln iou;, and a di,..armingl) ::.imp le soluLion to these problem:-. IL con,,i" = 22 STEEL FRAME HOUSE PHOTOGRAP'HS BY .IUl.IUS IHULMAN 23 Designed by PIERRE KOENIG Consulting Engineer: William Porush As seen from the street, the covered stairs to the right of the concrete retaining wall lead to the patio on the upper house level. The patio, stairs, and walks are brick paved. This upper level patio which cannot be seen from the street is the focal point for family activity. The din ing-living area, the kitchen and one bedroom, eoch have a sliding door that opens to this common court. A white plastic panel projecting from the reflecting pool serves as a screen be tween the stairs and the patio bedroom. The exposed-stack fireplace is faced with slumpstone below; the flue is covered with con crete and a meta l shell. It acts os a buffer be tween the living and dining areas. The second bedroom, shown in the pion, opens to the rear of the house and has its own brick terrace. The exposed steel deck and interior beams a re painted blue-gray, and the exterior steel beams are white. Interior walls are mostly mahogany plywood and sheetrock which is fastened to a system of girts and ledgers. The concrete slob floor is covered with mastic tile with the excep tion of the dining room which is polished brick. An extra wide hall accommodates a washer and dryer built into a cabinet th a t is hidden from view when not in use. The house is hea ted by a forced-air perimeter type system. Steel is used in the construction in such a way as to achieve maximum use and economy. 24 ANIMAL HOSPITAL Architects: Rochlin & Baran Building and Interior Design: Saul Bass, Herb Rosenthal Landscape Architects: Eckbo, Royston & Williams 25 This animal hospital is designed with o view towards providing complete and competent medi cal services in a structure that will be institutional in character. The administrative functions ore organized into one oreo on o mezzanine over the driveway which creates the roof of the tunnel connection between the two parking areas. It is accessible through o stairway in the reception room as well as an outside stairway connecting directly with the medical section behind the re ception area. The mezzanine also contains a multi-purpose room for the staff. The entire structure is essentially wood frame, plaster and gloss, with a minimum of structural steel. The building, on one continuous flat con crete slob is so framed as to provide a minimum number of bearing walls in order to allow for maximum versatility in future expansions. All mullions ore load bearing to permit the thin sec t. TV-CONfrR&NCI. ROOM 8. l'.XAMINATION ft00M8 It o GROOMING AREA tions on the west and east elevations. The entire CRIOtT ROOM 7 SURGCtlflCS U . A"48ULANC& ftARKING EMlf'OENCV l:NTRANCE roof is one continuous diaphragm which trans fers all seismic load to interior partitions. All 3. IJC&CUTIYIE Ol'l'ICE.9 I , LABOftATOtn tJ ~ITCH&N portions of the structure were designed so as to ~HARM ACY ltolSTftUMINT STUlflLllATION ,.. TftEAT..-EHT ROOMS exploit minimum section modules for the greatest tO, X RAY ROOM• ti GROOMINCi llNTRANC& economy. ~HOTOO ..AttH• ev TODD WALKEN 26 FIRST FLOOR Apartment Building by Campbell & Wong Four units of on eventual total of eight are pres ently under construction. The project will include gardens and a swimming pool designed by Eckbo, Royston and Williams. These apartments have not been conceived as small units but rath er to reflect the atmosphere of a complete house. On staggered levels, each apartment will have access to on outside area, either to a garden at SECON D FLOOR ground level, or to a penthouse garden, all by means of sliding doors. Each will have a large living-dining room with an elevated Calstone fire place, a master bedroom with dressing room and bath; the den, or guest room, is located adjacent to the living area and will open by means of translucent shojii screens. One apartment will have the additional feature of a studio which can be entirely opened into the garden by a folding wall. The entire project will be completely soundproofed using a system of suspended ceilings with acoustical blanket be .. tween the floor and the ceilings and also a soundproof blanket between walls. Each unit will hove its own circulating forced air heating THIRD FLOOR system. Kitchens will be of natural wood and will include General Electric counter ranges, ovens, and dishwashers. The garden will have a 20x37 foot Paddock swimming pool sur rounded with colored exposed aggregate con crete paving separated into individual areas by semi-circular Calstone walls. THE KITE from a student proiect Department of architectural cngi11eeriflg, California '>tate Puly1t:chnic C11/lcge at San Luis Obi~po l11str11c111r: \\ J,;l>l.I" ~.WARD The kite has held fascination and mystery for young and old throughout time. Ancient military men and modern admen have been literally carried away by it. Other more efficient aircraft may hove token over the simple tasks it once performed, but it is doubtful if technology will ever replace it as o toy and object of beauty. In design it imposes discipline without on impeding tradition, stimulates creative imagination without supporting irresponsibility, affords an opportunity to experiment first hand with basic aerodynamics, structure, materials, form, color, transparency, and motion. It hos the dramatic appeal of understandable ports combining toward o well-defined objective. The results affirm the criteria of design in unmistakable terms: it performs or it doesn't,-it is a thing of delight or it isn't. flHOTOQAAfl'H8 llY JIM Dll:AftlNGCR 28 29 A M O DERN HIGH SCHOOL by Ma rio J. Cia mpi, Architect The architect today is challenged with the responsibility of not and rooms should be so constructed as to carry on these only solving in a technical way all the material considerations which activities with a minimum of effort. are necessary for the construction of the secondary school, but also, C. Television education is now in its infancy, and yet those who more important, the approach to the educational plant which takes are familiar with this medium report extremely gratifying re into account psychological and philosophical considerations. This sults; broadcasting from a local central station, state, na basically, then, obliges the architect to attack the school plant tional, or international station, creates a teaching medium with problem with the fundamental concern of creating an appropriate unlimited possibilities. teaching environment. This environment must not only meet the The secondary school plant should be carefully analyzed. The demands which are manifest at the present, but must also antici environment of each teaching area should be unique unto itself. pate the probable course of our future cultural development; the The architect should very carefully study each of the areas, so that school plant must be utilized as the motivating force which will not this personality and character of space should immediately become only offer educational opportunity for the student, but also orient apparent and influence the student accordingly. the community in its broadest concept. The architect is charged with conceiving the best possible solu For several years, the trend in secondary educational construc tion to these problems, taking into account costs of construction, tion has followed a pattern beginning with wing type and finger construction systems, building materials, equipment, speed of con type plans. These concepts in planning hove resulted in problems struction, and maintenance. which the architect and client can now analyze and evaluate. It The site for the Westmoor High School is situated atop a high hos been observed that finger type plans require greater area, plateau overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Daty City, and the Santa create maintenance problems with their many courts, increase the Clara Valley. The site is generally exposed to wind and fog. It is heat losses through the glass, create expensive natural light control situated in a rapidly growing residential area. The school district, conditions, and add to the general cost of utilities. Lighting studies anticipating not only the present plant requirements, but also pos have been made where expensive natural lighting systems have been sible other future projects, has purchased a 65 acre site, of which installed. And yet, artifici al illumination is needed most of the time. 42 acres will be devoted to this high school project. The teaching methods as outlined by the California State Depart In view of all the considerations which have been presented, it ment of Schoolhouse Planning and the Stanford Research Labora was decided to construct a tight, compact structure. This would af tory indicate the following trends: ford its occupants a maximum of comfort under all weather condi A. All facilities should be made as flexible as possible; furniture tions, and at the same time permit interior classrooms to be used should be made movable where possible. Multi-use of room as viewing rooms or controlled work areas. The placing of all the areas is vital, especially with changing teachers and teaching classrooms in a concentrated area made it possible to introduce techniques. mechanical cores between classrooms, which house all heating and B. Visual Aid teaching methods are rapidly gaining in popularity, ventilating equipment, plumbing, electrical and utility lines. The (Con1m11ed on P.i.~e 31) 30 ARTS & ARCHITECTURE 1 PRODUCTS me ri t spec ifieti I for the new Case Study House No.17 I DESIG ED BY CRAIG ELLWOOD FOR THE MAGAZI E ART A D ARCHITECTURE WASCOLITE SKYDOMES.-Fifteen Skydomes hove been specifled for Cose Study House No. 17. These prefobricated taplighting units admit overhead daylight through acrylic plostic domes set in leokproof extruded aluminum frames. Bolonced day light is distributed to all ports of the house, no matter how distant from exterior wolls; making possible compoct, economical layout• thot utilize interior areas to be•t advantage. The Wascolile Skydomes, strong, •hotter-resistant and lightweight are virtually maintenance free. They are manufactured by the Wasco Fla•hing Company, 87 Fawcett Street, Combride 38, Massachusetts. TENNIS COURT SURFACING.-The tennis court will be surfaced with Americon Bi· tumuls' Loykold emulsified ospholl. Chosen for its precise eo•e of con.iruction, rug· ged durability, perfect drainage, and minimum mointenance requirements, Laykold provides o comfortobly resilient, grit-free, smoother surface. Loykold Is one of the ospholtic products of the Americon Bitumuls & Aspholl Company, 200 Bush Street, It's better to plan than patch San Francisco 4, Ca llfornio. (telephone facilities, that is) The following are previou•ly mentioned •pedfications developed by the People who are shopping for a new home like to feel that designer for the new Case Study House No. 17 and represent a selection every modnn convenience has been built into the house of products on the basis of quality and general usefulness and have beon they select. Exposed wires, for example, are a dead give-away selected as being best suited to the purpose of this project and are within that telephone outlets were put into the house rather than the meaning of the Case Study House Program, " Merit Specified.'' planned into it. Yet it costs so little to put built-in telephone Bio-Fan Electric Exhaust Ventilators facilities in your plans. Manufactured by Pryne & Company, Inc., Pomona, California Why not take advantage of Pacific Telephone's free Archi tects and Builders Service. Let us help you plan the kind of Conroe Television set telephone facilities every buyer expects to find in his home. Manufactured by Conr oe, Inc., Glendora, California Put built-in telephone facilities in your plans Fiberglas Building Insulation Products, Built-up Roof @ Pacific Telephone Manufactured by Owe ns-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo 1, Ohio Landscaping All material from the Van Herrick's nurseries, 10150 National Boulevard, Los Ange les, California Locksets Kwikset Sales and Service Company, Anaheim, California Modulor Hollow Clay Block Manufactured by Davidson Brick Company, 4701 Floral Drive, Los Angeles 22, California Panaview Sliding Doors Monufactured by Panaview Door & Window Company, 13434 Raymer Street, North Hollywood, California Pry-Lite Recessed Lighting Fixtures Manufactured by Pryne & Company, Inc., Pomona, California Rotir Ele ctric Barbecue Spit Manufactured by the Rotir Company, 8470 Garfield Aveaue, A VENTJLAnNG SCREEN DOOR Be ll Gardens, California A SASH DOOR Structural Steel A PERMANENT OUTSIDE DOOR Steel from Drake Steel Supply. Steel produced in mills of Columbia-Geneva Steel Division, U.S. Steel Corporation ALL 3 IN 1! Drake Steel Supply Company, 6105 Bandini Boulevard Los Angeles, Calif. Oiscriminetittg home ownen •nd •rchitects heve chose11 Suconem and Water-Bar Waterproofing agents HoUywood Junior •• 111• TRIPLE DOOR VALUE in the Products of Super Concrete Emulsions Ltd., 1372 East Fifteenth Street, COMBINATION SCREEN •ncl METAL SASH DOOR fiolcll Los Angeles, California A llurcly cl.pondoblo door, con•INCl•d of qutlify .,.,,,_ Swimming Pool rlol•. HOLLYWOOD JUNIOR'S EXCLUSIVE PATENTED Designed and Built by Anthony Bros., S871 Firestone Boulevard, FEATURES h••• outmoded old-f••hlon.cl weon doors South Gate, California •nd olhor cloon of ih type ontlrelyl Swimming Pool Cover Manufactured by the Safe-0-Matic Manufacturing Company, 33 St. Joseph Street, Arcadia, California Thermador built-in ovens and cooking top Manufacture d by Thermador Electric Manufacturing Company, S 119 District Boulevard, Las Angeles 22 Westinghouse built-in refrigerator-freezer, laundromat-dryer twin units, dishwasher, food waste disposer Manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Corporation; and distributed by W estinghouse Ele ctric Supply Company, 4601 South Bayle Avenue, Los Angeles S8, California JUNE 1955 31 NOTES IN PASSING receive wood beams at floor and roof. Each column is set into a (Co111in11 ed from P.rge 11) 24" diam. steel drum filled with concrete. This footing is 4' deep, in all nations, it must be accompanied by a revision of education in so that only 11' of each column appear above grade. The steel all countries, both advanced and underdeveloped, which must start was given a rust-preventive shop-coat and then painted black with in the primary schools - indeed in the home and hence must start a metal paint. The solid, plywood-faced panels that ore fixed in even further back with the re-education of parents and teachers. each wall were designed for lateral bracing of the structure. Ply If this seems visionary it is because the time is still far off. Yet wood was also used in the sub floor and the roof deck. The rigidity it must come if the human race is democratically to solve such prob of the house under extremely high wind pressures is due to a large lems as the atomic age will certainly bring-problems such as how extent to the structural qualities of the plywood. to grow enough food to support the workers that the atomic indus Because the house can be adjusted to any orientation and any tries will require; how to provide water to the arid zones so that view or combination of views, it is a universal vacation house for the population can thrive and use the electric power that can easily almost any site. be brought there; how to provide medical care to large populations that atomic energy will make possible; how to distribute the wealth M ODERN HIGH SCHOOL-CIAMPI that great atomic industries will create and that automatic factories, (Co111in11ed from P.1gt 29) perhaps, will convert into tangible goods; how and by what steps non-structural partitions may be moved if necessary. The om1ss1on it will be possible to increase the standard of living. of natural light removes solar heat problems, light brightness con After such a brief review of the prospect it is no longer startling trasts, and reduces maintenance costs. The building will be artifi to speak of a revolution in the world's work and in its way of life. cially lighted with o maximum of openness created between rooms. Perhaps the term should be " rapid evolution," not quite so fast as a Corridors will be constructed of steel and glass with colored panels revolution. In any case, one's vision must go far beyond mere nu inserted at eye level to isolate the teaching spaces. clear physics and the technology of reactors. It is obvious that the Special areas such as the library, Science, Homemaking, Mechan coming atomic age requires foresight not merely from physicists and ical Drawing, and Teachers' Room, have small garden courts in engineers but also from educators, social scientists and exponents of order that a change of environment may be created; these are used culture. It requires not only foresight but planning and action, lest the for teaching purposes. It is estimated that the saving in fuel in this revolution overwhelm us. This great development must be guided compact plan will more than offset any additional costs incurred by for the benefit of mankind. - Unesco Cour ier the artificial lighting. Other areas, such as the Fine Arts Court at the Little Theatre, and Arts and Crafts Room , as well as the pri vate teachers' lunch court and the student dining court, will relieve PINW HEEL HOUSE-BLAKE the tightness of the plan and introduce features of interest highly (Co11111111ed from Page 21) decorative and useful as sheltered areas against wind and fog. each side of the house. The principal shop and gymnasia face north and here glass is If the day is sunny and warm, the 18' wall slides over to the right, introduced to add further contrast and transparency to the plan or on two, three, or all four sides, which creates a shady pavilion, concept. with views all around, and a steady breeze. To dose the house up The Great Court offers an outdoor area for large student gath for the evening, the 18' wall slides back again, leaving only the erings. It assumes a civic character a nd is introduced to separate 6' wide glass panel in each corner exposed, giving plenty of light, the public areas from the academic and vocational areas. almost 200 sq. ft. of glass area for a 580 sq. ft. room. The circular music room area, with its depressed floor and domed The two-story plan was dictated by the obvious economies inher roof, again will create a change in environment and simultaneously ent in a smaller roof area and the space gained between founda create teaching spaces which ore acoustically correct. tion walls. On the lower floor, the house has two very compact bed The entire exterior of the main building is designed with a can rooms, utilities, storage room, four closets, a full bath. tilever roof and a glass skin which form the principal freeway of It was found that the house was very simple to build and very circulation and feed into the secondary aisles and adjoining areas. simple to prefabricate in part. The sliding walls were assembled in Since the swimming pool building and community auditorium are a local mill and trucked to the site and hung. Screens were replaced to be built at a later dote, they are planned as separate structures. by curtains of nylon mosquito netting, although the house is detailed The building will have a concrete roof. The low flat areas will to receive sliding screens as well. light steel I-beams for the 12 be " lift slab" and the long span high rooms will be roofed with columns that hold up the house were used in order to brace the thin shell concrete pre-cast barrel vaults. Exterior walls will be sliding walls against the wind when they are in their extended posi colored masonry and gloss areas will be framed in aluminum; cor tion. Although the walls will not generally be open, or fully open, ridor partitions, steel sash and plate glass. Acoustical plaster ceil in any severe storm, it was decided to design the structure to resist ings will be applied direct to concrete. lighting will be fluorescent. wind velocities of considerable strength. The steel columns are 15' Heating and ventilation will be taken care of by specially designed long. The section is a 4" by 8" I weighing only 10 lbs. per foot. unit ventilators concealed in the mechanical core. Floors will be Some shop fabrication was necessary to prepare the columns to asphalt tile. RED LAB E L SUCONEM '~J:ill Red Label Suconcm, merit specified by Naturally, the accenting exterior-interior architects for over 2 ~ years for water-proofing mortar and wall of brick calls for W ater-Bar, the one proven minimizing efl!ore!>cence, is a very important ingredient in any • "Invisible" water barrier that leaves texture and color unchanged, mortar, especially in this Case Study H ouse • is water-repellent for at least ten years with its dramatic brick wall. • and prevents efflorescence. SUPER CONCRETE EMULSIONS LTD. 1372 E. 15TH ST., LOS ANGELES TELEPHONE: RICHMOND 7-0247 32 ARTS & ARCHITECTURE CASE STUDY HOUSE Two-dimensional designers of New En&la_n 11. ARTIST-DESIGNER: 11 years varied experience m display, poster, mural design, adYertising layout, book illustration. ~owledge of typography and printing reproduction methods. ~es1res mural or books and magazines illustration assignments in California area. Female, single. on applied and fine art c. ARTIST-TEACHER: 10 year~ teaching Institute of Design, Chicag~; 5 years Midwest art school. 20 years advertising experience as art di rector, production manager, advertising man~~er, pho~ographer, product Museum Books, inc. and package designer. Can teach ad,er~1sing d~~1gn,. photography, New books of special intere.u to reader.~ package design and product design. De~1res p~s1~1on m art school, of the magazine ARTS & ARCHITECTURE college or university. Male, age 45, married. W1l11ng to relocate. Retail only; no trade di.scount. D. ARTIST-TEACHER: B.A. Art Education, California College of Arts e NEW GARDENS by Ernest Baumann An excellent book on eight gardens described in great detail and Crafts. Attended Academie Julian, Paris; U. of Florence. Special with over .400 photogrophs, plans, sketches, etc. The general Secondary Credential, State of Calif. Qualified to teach art. ,1nd craft lay-out of each garden is shown with single groupings and subjecb. Extensl\e working experience in display, lettenng, com plants. The peculiar situation of each garden-lakeside, hill, mercial art fields. Female, age 34. Willing to relocate. town, slope-presented the designer with new, different prob lems requiring their own solutions. Cloth. Zurich 1955. $12.00 E. ARTIST-TEACHER: Graduate Pa. Academy of Fine Arts. Scholarship e EXHIBITION STANDS by Robert Gutmann & Alexander Koch to Europe, 1931. National exhibition~. Private ~e~hin~ experience. The first book to cover every phase of exhibition and display Desires position as mstructor of drawing and pamting in art school work of 140 designers and architects. Experts from seven coun or college .irt department. Male, age 46, single. tries survey the general standard of exhibitions in their coun tries and indicate the trend of imaginative contemporary three F. ART TEACHER: 8.f.A., M.F.A., honor student. Qualified to teach dimensional design. Cloth, Stuttgart 1955. $12.50 drawing, painting, design and c~mmercial art; 5 yea_rs e~perience e ARCHITECTS' YEAR BOOK # 6 edited by Trevor Dannatt preparatory schools. Desires pos1t1on at college or university level. A collection of illustrated articles on architecture, town plan Male, age 33, married. Willing to relocate. ning and interior design In U.S.A., England, Japan and the Scandinavian countries etc. Special studies of the works of Pier G. DESIGNER- CRAFTSMAN : 4 years experience tead1ing and working Nervi, Finn Juhl, Le Corbusier. Cloth, London 1955. $9.00 in high school woo? and c.eramics departme~ts, free-lance work in fur Special 0 If er niture and accessories design and construction. 2 years as draftsman e le CORSUSIER, COMPLETE WORKS 1910-1952 in store planning. Male, age 28, single. Willing to relocate. Five exciting volumes containing the works of one of the most influential architects of modern times. All cspects of le Cor H. DESIGNER-TWO-DIMENSIONAL: B.F.A., 1955, Massachusetts School busier's activities Including architecture, painting, sculpture etc. of Art, 2 years specialized training in ad,·ertising and product design Take advantage of this offer. Five volume set. $50.00 including reproduction techniques, direct mail, color, and display. Ex All book orders must be prepaid. Please make )'our perienced also as jewelry designer. Desires position in tw~-dimensional check payable to the maga.:ine design field, either free-lance or staff. Female, age 21, single. Arts & Architecture I. DESIGNER- TWO-DIMENSIONAL: Desires free-lance work in the two 3305 Wilshire Roulevard, Los Angeles 5, California dimensional field. Adept at .ur brush, stencil techniques and opaquing. J. DESIGNER-WRITER: B.S. in Art {19'55). Desires permanent posi tion in two dimensional design field. Also experienced in journalism. Will consider other positions in art. Female, age 38, single. K. FABRIC DESIGNER-STYLIST: Graduate Columbia U., Cooper Union. 4 years experience designing modern printed drapery and upholstery fabrics anJ wallpaper. A.I.D. and Good Design awards, 1955. Seeks position on free-lance or retainer basis. Female, married. l. HOME FURNISHINGS STYLIST-PUBLIC RELATIONS: 18 years experience in styling and color work, promotion, publicity, merd1andising, organ ization and administrative work. Desires permanent position with manufacturer or public relations firm. Female, single. Willing to relocate. M. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER: Graduate Rhode bland chool of Design ( 195 5). Experience in sales, production methods, processes and ma terials. Desires position with progressi\'e organization. Male, age 34, married. Willing to relocate. N. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER: Graduate Pratt Inst., Ind. Design. 3 years experience in interior, furniture design, including full-scale working drawings. Desires permanent position with product or interior design firm. Male, age 29, married. Willing to relocate. o. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ER: 5 years experience in design of products, packages, exhibits, etc., for midwestern manufacturer. Familiar with manufacturer processes and art production. Prefer position in studio handling all types of product design. Will consider staff work. Male, age 28, married. Willing to relocate. P. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER: Graduate University of Illinois in Industrial Design 2 years with major appliance manufacturer on training pro gram and in design ~ect1on. 2 years handling all design assignments of small manufacturing company. Desires position with free-lance design office or design section of manufacturing company in West, Midwest or South. Male, age 32, married. Q. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER-DESIGN DIRECTOR: 8 years experience as in dustrial designer. Presently styling director for major appliance man ufacturer. Expert and lecturer on all phases of technical illustration 34 ARTS & ARCHITECTUR£ f?r product catalogues, etc., and can train personnel and assume super longs in all files.-Architectural Pot· (247a) Contemporar) home furnish· vision_ of styling department. Knowledge of management procedures, tery, Box 4664 Village Station, Los An ings: A new 1955 .illustrated cato Igeles 24, California. logue presenting important eumple:. of matenals and manufacturing methods. Desires position with reputable Raymor's complete line of ronlempo manufacturer. Male, age 39. married. Willing to relocate. FABRICS rary home furni' T H E M A G A z N E art& t arc~itBCtun 3 3 0 5 WI L SHIRE BOULEVARD . L 0 S A N GELES 5 • C AL I FORN I A Please enter my subscription for ·······-······· year(s). My $ ...... check is ottached. DOMESTIC RA n s New 0 Renewal 0 Year ...... $ 5.00 2 Years ···-······-···$ 9.00 ~AME.~~~~~~~~~ 3 Years ...... $12.00 STREET ------~------~------'OREIGN RATES CITY ______.ON L_STATE.._ ---- Year -·····-·-··-·$ 6.50 2 Years ..-···-···· ··$12.00 OCCUPATION ------~~~------~ 3 Years ...... •.. $15.00 65 JUNE 1955 35 shape and color, elegantly combined HEATING & A IR CONDITIONING I with solid brass, wood and wrought (55) Water Heaters, Electric: Brochure, FOR SALE 12,500 iron bases, custom designed or con aata electric water beaters; good de· ~trurted to individual specifications. For ~ign.-Bauer Manufacturing Company, CONTEMPORARY HOME further information, write to Rene Bran cusi, 996 First Avenue at 55th Street, 3121 W. El Segundo Boulevard, Haw designed by Pierre Koenig thorne, California. New York City, or 928 North La Cien ega, Los Angeles, California. steel frame sliding glass door$ (143a) Combination Ceiling Heoter, Light: Comprehensively illustroted in· large living arN1, bath b~droom and kitchen (147a l Wholesale Office Furniture: 112- formation, data on specifications new formation: Open showroom for the NuTone Heat-a-lite combination heater, wooded site-convenient location trade, featuring Desks, Upholstered Fur light; remarkably good design, engi Qilillll~;&~;E:;::~t>....-Jl~~~lill 2002 LOS ENCi NOS, GLENDALE - Cl 1-561 S niture, 11.11d related pieces. Ex.cl usive neering; prismatic lens over standard Lines, from competitive, to the ultimate LOO-watt bulb casts diffused llghting in design, craftsmanship, and finish over entire room; heater forces warmed neering drawings Prescolite Fixtures; louvers is notc•d and its fireproof and available in the office furniture field. air gently downward from Chromalox complete range contemporary designs concealing qualities listed. For com Watch for showing, late this month, of heatinjl; element; utilizes all heat from lm- residential, commercial applications; plete, illustrated in formation, write to the new modular cantilevered line-an bulb, fan motor, beating element; uses c:xclusive Re-lamp-a-lite hinge; 30 sec· John P. cbafer, Hex<"el Product~ Co., entirely new concept in office engineer· line voltage; no transformer or relays .mds to fasten trim, install glass or re· Dept. AA, 951 61st treet, Oakland 8, ing. Spencer & Company, 8327 Melrosl' required ; automatic thermostatic con· lamp; exceptional builder and owner California. Ave., Los .t..ni:eles, California. trols optional: ideal for bathrooms, cbil· Jcceptance, well worth considering. dren's rooms, bedrooms, recreation Prescolite Mfg. Corp., 2229 4th Street, (782) Sunbeam fluorescc--nl and incan rooms; UL-listed; this product definite· Berkeley 10, California. Jescent "Visiona.ire" lighting fixtures (180a) Dux: A complete line of im· ly worth close appraisal; merit specified J lor aU types of commercial areas such ported upholstered furniture and re· <:Sffon~,. 1<>52-NnTnne. Jnr .. Marli~nn (170a) Architectural Lighting: Full in JS offices, stores, markets, schools, pub lated tables, warehoused in San Fran· and Red Bank Roads, Cincinnati 27, formation new Lightolier Calculite fix lic buildings and various industrial and cisco and New York for immediate de· Ohio. tures; pro.,ide maximum light output ~pecialized installations. A guide to livery; handcrafted quality furniture ~venly diffused; simple, clean func· better lighting, Sunbeam's catolog shows moderately priced; ideally suited for (224a) Thennador Wall Heat Fan tional form: square, round, or recessed a complete line of engineered fixtures residential or commercial use; write for lnformation now available on this stur with lens, louvres, pinhole, alhalite or with comprehensive technical data and catalog.-The Dux Company, 25 Taylor dy, comJ>D.ct, safe unit- quickly in· formed glass; exclusive "torsiontite" :1pecifica1ions. The cotalog is divided Street, San Francisco 2, California. stalled, economical to use. Serarate ;pring fastener with no exposed screws, into basic s,.ctions for easy reference. ;;witches for fan and beat. neon work· bolts, or binges; built-in fibreglass gas· Sunbeam Lighting Company, 777 East (2·18a) Furniture: Paul l\lcCobb. inp; indicator light. Lower grille forces ket eliminates light leaks, snug self 14th Place, Los Angeles 21, California. warm air downward creating Jess heal leveling frame can be pulled down lot~t brochure contain~ occurale de· Crom any side with fingertip pressure, "'(375) Lighting Fixtures: Brochures, scriptions and handsome photographs waste. Fan action induces constant i:ompletely removable for cleaning; def· bulletins Prylites, complete line recessed of piece~ most representative of the Mc· air now over resistance coils, prevent· tnitely worth investigating.-LightoUer, lighting fixtures, including specialties; Cobb collections of furniture. Write ing oxidation and deterioration throull:h East Thirty-sixth Street, New York, multi·rolored dining room lights, auto· for this reference guide to Hanley-How. red glow. Choice of handsome finishes 11 in bronze, white enamel or stainless New York. matic closet lights; adjustable spots; urd, Dept. AA, 8950 Beverly Bhd., Lo~ full technical dato, charts, prices. Angel~ 48, Calif. .:tee!. Write to Thermador Electrical Mfg. Company, Los Angeles 22, Calif. (z7a) Contemporary Commercial Fluo· Pryne & Company, Inc., 140 North 1escent, Incandescent Lighting Fixtures: rowne Avenue, Pomona, Cali!. (241a) "Skylark" designed by Edward !-' (233a) Pryne Bio-Fan: c ei Jing C?itaJog, complete, illustrated specifica Frank, comprising a complete livi11g "Spot" ventilator. Newly available in- 11.on dato Globe c?nlemporary c~m~er· MISCELLANEOUS room serilll-, i:, one upholstered group formation describes in detail the rrin- ~·al fluore:icent, . m~andescent.. lig?un g introduced by the new subsidiary firm ciplcs and mechanics of Blo-Fan, on / 'ixtures; drrect, md1rect, seII1J-mdir.ect, I 360) Telephones: Information for ar· of Pocific Iron Products, The Gordon effective combinaLion of the breeze fan iccent, sp~t, re.markably clean design, .-hitects, builders on telephone instolla. tanford Dh·ision. The new firm will and the power of a blower in which ·ound .engme~nng; one of !°ost com· •ion!', including built·in data.-A. F. manufacture fine contemporary uphol . . d I •lete Imes; !Jterot1.1re contams charts, DuFault, Pacific Telephone & Telegropb b est reatures oI b oth are ut1 111.e • n- bl t h · 1 · f ti' r ~tered furniture and occasional 1>iec~. ·11 · I I ta es, ec mca m orma on; one 01 Company, 740 So. Olive St., Los Ange· eludes m:iny two-co lor 1 ustrauons, ie P· f · f · l' ht" For additional information write to The ·n 1iest sources o m orma1 ion on 1g mg. les, California. f ul , c l early drawn di ngrams, spec1 ca- Gl b L' ht' p d I 2121 Gordon tanford Division, Pacific Iron · d l f f I · - o e .1g mg ro uc ts, nc., Products, Dept. AA 11930 W. Olympic t1ons an examp es 0 ans 0 . vanous ·outh Main Street Los Angeles 7 Calif. """' (240a) Anthony Bros. pools intro· Blvd., Los Anll:eles M, Calif. type' and uses. Bio-Fan comes m three ' ' due easy-to-operate rust·proof filter sys· sizes for use in various parts oI 'the (246a) Theatrical Lighting Catalogue tern, with highly effective bacteria house and can also be combined with a No. 1: Is a comprehensive prescnta elimination. ightime illumination by (138A) Contemporary Fumimre: Infor reces~ed lip;ht unit, amply illuminating tion of ligLLing instruments and acces· underwater light. Special ladder a mation. Open showroom to the trade, range below. For this full and attrac- ,ories required for entertainment pro unique feoture. Will design and build featuring such lines as Herman Miller, tive brochure, write to Pryne & Co., ductions. ContenL~ include information pool of any size. Terms can be ar Knoll, Dux, Felmore, House of Italian DepL AA, 140 N. Towne Ave., Pomona, on stage layouts, spotlight:;, floodlights, ranged to customer's satisfaction. Write Handicrafts and John Stuart. Represen California. ~triplights, special equipment, control for brochure, Anthony Bros. Dept. AA, tatives for Howard Miller, Glenn of equipment, acce series and remote con 5871 East Firestone Blvd., South Gate, California, Kasparian, Pacific Furniture, (542) Furnaces: Brochures, folders, trol devices. To obtain a copy write to Calif. String Design Shelves ond Tables, Swerl Jata Payne forced air heating units, 1.entury Lip;hting. Dept. AA, 521 West ish Modern, Woolf, Lam Workshops and including Panelair Forced Air Wall 13rd L, ~ew York 36, ~e w York. "' (2380) The afe-0-Matic swimming Vista. Also, complete line of excellent heater, occupying floor area oI only 11 pool cover keeps pool clean, conserves contemporary fabrics, including Angelo 29-% x 9%"; latter draws air from (2.34a) l\Iulti-Plrx: Rrcently intro pool tempera tu rt>, guarantee;; safety. Testa. Schiffer Prints, Elenhank Dt' ceilinll:, discharges near floor to one or dnced by LPadlight Fixture Company. Four roll carriers support olum.inum signers, California Woven Fabrics, Roh· more rooms; two speed fan.-Payne Multi-Plex is a complete series of fully rails to which heavy aluminum tubing ert Sailors Fabrics, Theodore Merowitz, Furnace Company, Monrovia, Calif. enclo•ed modular slow-brightnes• light is hinged. Outer cover is of heavy deok Florida Workshops and other lines of diffusing units. As described in new cat canvas impervious lo flame and water. decorative and upholstery fabrics. (907) Quick Heating: Comprehensive alog, this handsome line features Plex.i- An enclosed electric reduction motor 12-page cotalog featuring Markel Heel- j!fas diffnsinjl; drop-panel~. uniform dif These lines will be of particular in· ~ U.P. powers the cover which fold aire electrical space heaters; wall-at fusion and efficient distribnLion. By com· terest to Architects, Decorators and De back in 35 seconds. Sun-drying and tachable, wall-recessed, portable; photo- bininp; unit~ in various patterns, unlim signers. Inquiries welcomed. Carroll ~ervice deck (optional) includes service graphs, technical data, non-technical in- ited range of desill:JlS for any existing or Sagar & Associates, 8833 Beverly Boule· bar, will conceal cover. Write for bro stallation data; good buyer's guide.- new ceilinp; is possible. Catalog also dc vard, Los Angeles 48, California. chure Safe-0-~aLic Mfg. Co. Dept. AA, Markel Electric Products, Inc., Buffalo ,crbes material and make-up, high-re- 33 St. Joseph treet, Arcadia, Calif. 3, N. Y. I Aertancc finjsh and eagy installation of (20la) Office Interiors, Wholesale: The luminarie~, For detailed information, "'(249a) Fireplace tools and grates: West's most complete selection of Office LANDSCAPING write to Leadlight Fixture Co., Dept. Profusely illustrated brochure showing Furniture. Top Jines represented: Co· .,,( ) S . l . AA, 10222 Pearmain t., Oakland. Calif. 239 1 firetools, stands und wall brackets, and lumbia Steel Files ond Desks, Tye Lamp, . a pe.c1roen p ants, trop~ca,s, irons (ca~t iron), grates and standing 8 Wilshire House Royal Metal Chairs, Do· conl;Bmers .avarlable at Van II~mck • 1 (23la) i\luminum Honeycomb Light· ashtrays. l\Ierit specified for Case tudy 01 ten-Outen, etc. Complete coordinated mefll specified for lond~caprng 1njl;: Complt>te informotion now avail House No. 17. Write to Stewart-Win grouping of new Feldman-Selje designs CSH.ouse o._17. Consultatio_n and I~lly gble on this new approach to full ceil throp, Dept. AA, 7570 Woodman Ave., ,,r Ext>cuth·e ecrctarial. Receptionist Iquoli6ed seTVJce. Send for .in~ormatron ing lip;hting- Honeylite. Made from Van uyl', Calif. Office Furniture finished in walnut and on _Plan t care.-Van Ilemck 8•. lOl?O high purity aluminum foil by special Zolatone. Spacious showroom (9000 Nallonal Blvd., Los Angeles, Calrforma. "Ilexrcl" pro<'ess, Uoneylite is now (965) Contemporary Fixtures: Cato· square feet) . Many different styles of available in various cell sizes. lnforma- log, data good Hne contemporary fix accessories and erecting fabrics for of- LIGHTING EQUIPMENT lion describes exceptional acoustical tures, including complete selection re lice decor. Free cataloll: on request. value. excellent light transmission effi· cessed surface mounted lease, down Office Interiors, 8751 Beverly Blvd., Los r ll9a) Recessed and Accent Lighting ciency. Its adaptability to any lightinjl; lights incorporoting Corning wide angle Angeles, California. Fixtures: Specification data and engi- fixture now using glass, plastic or Pyrex lenses; recessed, semi-recessed 36 ARTS & ARCHITECTURE dom pattern development; colorful \lard suiface impervious to weather; Quarry Tile in plain and five "non-slip'" permanent, color fast, easy to handle, abrasive surfaces; and handcrafteJ install; lends well to all designs shapes; Faience Tile. The Mosaic Tile Com· inexpensive; probably best source of pany, 829 North Highland, Hollywood information on new, sound product. 38. HOilywood 4-8238. Architectural Division, Porcelain En amel Publicity Bureau, P. 0. Bo:i: 186, (219a) P ermalite-Alexitr Concrete A<> . East Pasadena Station Pasadena 8 gregate: Information on extremely ligh~- California. ' ' weight in,ulatinit concrete for floor ~lab~ a,nd f1o?r filk. For .1our r.opy, "rite to (117h) Vinyl Cork Tile: Completely re· I I t'rmalat~ Perlite Div., 0f·pt. <\ ·\ Great vised catalog now offered giving de· ~kes Carbon Corporation, 612 o. I tailed features of Dodge Vinyl-CMk l• l o,~ er tret'l, Lo~ Angr·h·s 17, Calif. Tile. Includes color chart of the 16 pat· ____ ,. I I terns available plus comparison table I (93~) _Paint Information . ervice-au· of results numerous tests, also data on th?ntnt1ve, complete-especially for Ar· design, specification, care and mninte· ch1tects. Quest1onit to nil your finish nance. Dodge Cork Co., Inc., Lancaster, proble.ms answered pr~mptly a_nd frank. Prnnsylvania. ly, with the latest rnformallon avail· able. No obligations. Also color •ample• (194a) Celotone Tile: 'ew, incombus· und specifications for L & S Portland tible, highly efficient accoustical tile Cement Paint, the unique oil-ba•e finish molded from mineral fibres and special forcement masonry, galvanized steel. binders. Irregular fissures provide tru· I ~sed on the West's most important ertine marble effect plus high degree 1obs. General Paint Corp., Architec· sound absorption. Made in several tural Information Department, 2627 sizes with washable white finish. Man· Army St., San Francisco 19, Calif. ufactured by The Celotex Corporation, 120 So. LaSalle St., Chicago 3, Illinois. (218a) Permalite-Alexite Plaster Ag· gregate: Latest information on thh· highly efficient fireproofing plaster pre· (196a) Panel Tile: New Polystyrene wall tile in 9-inch squares, textured, sented in detail in completely illu~ trated brochure. Brochure contain• striated front surface, "sure-grip" dia· I enough data and authority on authentic mond back. Eleven popular colors are built in, cannot fade, chip, peel off or fire _resistance to warrant complete, im. discolor. Washable, scratch and mar mediate acceptance of Permalite-Alex.ite proof, withstands heat, will not rust, for perlite plaster fireproofing. Mnn) rot, warp or swell. Well suited for resi· charts and detailed drawin~ 1tive firr· dence, business, industrial and institu· rating•, de;:criptions and authoritie anrl tional instaUations. Can be installed desc:ibe plaster as lightweight, eco· over any firm, smooth, sealed wall, such nomical and crack-re~i,tnnt, withstand· as plywood, sheetrock, plaster board LAMP & MASK AS ABOVE VASES, ASHTRAYS, ETC. ing up to 42% grenter strain than com· or plastered walls. Further information parable sanded pla~ter;. Write to Per· will he supplied by New Plastic Corp., I malite. Perlite Div., OepL AA, Great 1025 N. Sycamore, Los Angeles 38, LakC!l Carbon Corp., 612 o. Flnwer t., Calif. Los Angell'• 17, California. surface-mounted units utilizing reflector booklet containing up-to-date informa· (195a) Corrulux : One of oldest o! (213a) Geh·atex Coatin1t~: "Fir•t of the lamps; modem chandeliers for widel• lion on Kaiser Aluminum mill product~ translucent plastics, now grratly im· vinyl emulsion paint~"' - These paint~ diffused, even illumination: ~ecte~ and •ervice, is now a1•ailable. Include. proved. _Reinforced with inorganic, non have proved their outstanding durahil· units merit specified for CSHouse 1950 data on aluminum alloys, forms, prop· comLustible flame barrier core. Variet) ity in England, Africa, C:rnada, France, Stamford Lighting, 431 W. Broadway erties, application~ and anilability. An of colors, light weight, shatterproof. Australia, ew Zealand. Available for New York 12, N. Y. abundanre of tables and charts through· Ideal for patios, carports, skylights, all surfaces in wide range of colors. out provides ronvenicnt reference mate· monitors aud sawtooth fenestration for Advantages: lasts up to 7 year!l or !215a l Reflector_ Hardware Corp. an· rial. Booklet may be obLoined from factories. Can be sawe;l, drilleJ, nailed. longer; may be app~ied _on eithe~ damp nounrt>s new .5.'.1-S PACEMASTE!l I Kaiser \luminum & Chemical ales. Corrnlux Division of Libbey Owens I or dry surfoce: dnes rn 30 minutes; ~ntalog .. Contains 128 pages, over 650 Inr., lndustrfol crvicc Div .. Dept. AA. Ford Glass Company, Room iio1, J44-0 flows on !n 25% less time; ~ot _aJiect~d il~~stratJon." of mo~t adl'llnced merchan· 192.J Broadway, Oaklan1J 12, California. Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, Calif. by 1tasolme, k_eroscne, lulmcatmg 011~ d1•rng equipment on market. Includes: I or grea•11s; highly reoistant Lo acids, Wall Section~. Counter Set-up~. Island ""'(251a) Concrete emulsioni;: Red ga.,es, ~un, salt air, ~mog. Gelvotex lnib. igning Equipment, helving. PAINTS, SURFACE TREATMENT Label uconem minimizes effiore!>cence, fil~ let" surface h:eathe, will not trap ~plicing and Binning Equipment. Mo~t has proved an effective water-bar. J\lcr· mot~Lure vapor, rain cannot penetrate. romplt'te merrhandi•in~ equipment cata· (228a) Mosaic Wes tern Color Catalol! In colors created e-pecially for West· it s1wcified for Ca•r tudy IIou'e "\o. For informative literature write to Peter log printed. Available from the Re· li.. For complete information write R. Jes.«n~, Dept. AA. Gelvate~ Cont· Hector Hardware Corporation, Western ,.rn lrnilding need'. all of the clay tile manufoctured by The l\lo•aic Tile Com uper Concrete Emulsion• Limited Dept. inf!S Corp., 1250 Wilshire Blvd., Los Ave. at 22nd Plart', Ch1rago 8, Tilinois .\A. 1372 E. 15th ~t .• Ln" .\ni:ell'. Calif. Angeles li, California. or 22.) WN 34th t .. 'I. Y. 1. N. Y. pany is convenientlv rre.. ented in tbi new 8-poge catalog. lnrluded in their • (116a) Packaged Chimneys: Informa· various colors are l!luzrd wall tile, cera· (929) Architectural Porcelain Veneer: (193a) Simpson Fissured Tile: New 11on Van-Packer packaged chlmneys; mir, Vehetex and Granitex mo aics Brochure well illustrated, detailed, on incombustible addition to complete line economical: ciave• <1pace. hangs from Everi;rlaw tile nnd Carlyle quarry tile'. architectural porcelain veneer; glass. acoustical products. From special type ceiling or floor joists; installed in 3 Completing the catalog is data on man-honrs or less: immediate delivery \ shapes, •ize,, and trim, and illustra· 1 to job of complete chimney; meets FHA tion~ or a popular group of ~fo•aic requirement.~; worth contacting; m1:rit All-Tile Acc~•ories for kitchen, and specified . CSJiouRe 1952. - Van-Packer hnths. For your copy of this helpful I Corpornt1on , 209 South La Salle St.. cat.alog. write The Mosaic Tile Com· Dept. AA. Chicn11;0 3, Illinois pany, Dept. AA, 829 North IIii:hland Avenue, Iloll>•wood 38, California. I 1225a) Ka1,Pr i\luminum. for Product Desipi & \lanufort11rr i\ nt'w 21-pagl\ rork re-formed into highly absorbent vents, 90"r opening,.; ~4 .. masonry an· rock wool. Results in natural fissures, chorage; installed by Soule·trained local different on each tile unit. White finish crews. For information write to GeorF;e for high li11:ht refl ection, may be re· Cobb, De1t. BB. SouJe tee! Company, painted without loss of hi!(h arou•tkal l750 Arm1 treet, ~ an franci,co. Calif. effiriency. Simp!>on Lojiijliing Company. l()l)!'i rnart Rl ------.., • (956 l Indoor Incinerator: Information ...,.. (205A} ~lodular Brick and Block: requirements a., outlined in the ne" Incinor unit for convenil'tlt di~posal The Modular and Rug Face Modular U . Commercial tandard for fir pl)· combu~tible reftN.', wrnpping.. , papers, Brick, the Modular Angle Brick for wood ( c.545-55 l. is desi1tned a' a quicJ.. s.iarbagt". tra•h; ga., firrd, unit j, 35" bond beams and lintels, the Nominal 6" ea,y-to-read referenl'e piece for build· high. 22" in diametrr, weiidJs 130 Modular Block and the Nominal 8" e~. archi1ect~, -.pecifier' and other pl) I pound'. ha, rapacity of two bu~hel~; \ lodular Block, have all been produced " ood u•er!'. The catalog CO\l' fli -,uch heny .. ieel plate combu,tion chamber; by the Davitbon Brick Company as a <'''enllal data as type-u:.e recommenda AGC approved; excellent product. merit result of reque~ts from the building tions, -,tandard i.tock t-ilt' of Exterior specified CSHou~e 1952.-lncineration trade and realization that all liuilding and Interior types, recommendations on Divi,,1on. Bow•rr. Inc., Cairo, Ill. materials c-an lie \\'Orked together with plywood ~iding and panelini;:. enitineer· simplicity and economy only with Mod· ing data for pl}wood ,heathing and ply -' (204a) Contemporary Locksets: Illus· ular Design. wood for concrete forms, minimum tra1ed catalo!? on Kwikset .. 600" Lork The materials now in i;tock are avail FHA requirements, fundamn1tal' of sets, 6 pin tumbler lockRets for every able from the Dnvitbon Brick Compan} finislung, and applications for 'pecialty ooor th rouizhout the home; su i1ahle in California only, 4701 Floral Drive. product~. ample copies are obtainabl~ for contemporary office~. commercial Los Angeles 22, California. free from Doui.la• Fir Plywood A'•ociu• building,. Feature,: 5-preci•ion-matched tion, Tacoma 2. \\ a,h. parts for ea,;y in~tallation: dual lock (208a l Texture One·Eleven Exterior in!! exterior locbet~-qimplified cylin Fir Plywood: This new grooved panel (179a) Plexolite-fiberglllb reinforcer! Now ... get arcadia der re,·rrsing-may be r·,e~ed for left material of indu-.try qualiry, is in per· tr1 Today. aftl'r nParly !'ix )t'llr~ of patient plu1111ing a1al exhau,.tiH• n:"l'arch. Arradia proudly arQ} d i asliding gla. ·s doors first choice 1'11 steel .. . Now fin;t in aluminum, too! ARCADIA METAL PRODUCTS • ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA • NATIONAL M[MBER PRODUCERS COUNCJL, INC. and NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ot HOME BUILDERS 5803 3-Co3oo t ~ OF '.RT The new Soule Series 900 Aluminum Window includes every quolity feature architects ask for. Tubular ventilator sections give greater rigidity and strength, permit larger areas of glass. Snap on glazing beads achieve a modern, oll oluminum window. And exclusive putty lock gives neater, weathertight putty glaze. All Series 900 windows ore Alumilite finished in our new alumiliting plant. This finish imports a satiny smooth surface that is attractive to the eye and pleasing to the touch. Alumilite protects the surface of the window from corrosion, makes maintenance a simple matter of washing with mild soap and water. W ith Soule Alumilite finish windows stay new-looking longer! SOULE- STEEL COMPANY SAN FR ANCISCO, 1750 Army Stroot • LOS ANGELES, 6200 Wilmington Avenue So ale FRESNO. 850 R Srreet • PORTLAND, 2630 N.W. St. Helens Rood LEADEI IN METAL WINDOWS SEATTLE, '100 W. Marginal Woy • SPOKANE. 725 Real ty Building PHOENIX, SI l E. Roosevel t Street • SAN JOSE, 460 Pork Avenue SALT LAKE CITY, 220 Greyhound Building