ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER OCTOBER 1942 Oakland Builds Three Low Rent Housing Projects Post-War Planning for the Construction Industry War Time Housing in Defense Areas State Housing Conference Adopts Post-War Program ; Pacific Paint and Varnish Products USED ON THESE OAKLAND HOUSING PROJECTS ABOVE — TWO OF THE 372 UNITS OF LOCK- WOOD GARDENS. Qaudc Yelton Paint Co., Oakland, painting contractors. RIGHT — CAMPBELL VILLAGE, 155 UNITS. M. Cohn Company, San Francisco, painting con- tractors. BECAUSE they were well designed and well built. Oakland's three low rent housing projects are commanding nation wide interest . BECAUSE better than the average materials for this class of con- struction were specified, is why Pacific Paint and Varnish products were used on the two projects illustrated above. LOCKWOOD GARDENS of 372 units (1,662 rooms) is a 100' P. P. 6? V. job, including interior and exterior painting, flat and egg-shell finishes, stains, enamels OSN^« and varnish. c-J^ lo^^:d^ :;^^fK\o^^ V*\\e\° ^^^K>^^ Am^^'^ 5^^.^«:>"^^ v<-^<^ \ts p\e?.o ^^<=''t^^-V^^ xxo^ Sa^' ,\ec^' PACIFIC PAIIVT & VARNISH CO. A Paint or Varnish Product for Every Purpose SAH FRANCISCO BERKELEY LOS ANGELES Soles Office Factory Sales Office ARCHITECT AND ^l^-b.S is^ ENGINEER 535676 Volume 151 October, 1942 Nj( Running Fire ......... 4 Mark Daniels NEXT News and Comment on Art ...... 7 MONTH Oakland's Low Rent Housing Projects . .15 Fred W. Jones Two buildings, widely dif- Shore Base for State Merchant Marine Training School ferent in style, but equally im- at Vallejo 23 portant to the University ot Post-war Planning for the Conshruction Industry . 29 California, have recently been Russell G. Creviston completed in Berkeley. One is War-time Housing in Defense Areas .... 33 Catherine Bauer Wurster the University Administration Building which Arthur Brown Report of Annual Convention, S.A.C.A. .... 36 has designed and which re- Unusual Design for Newspaper Plant .... 37 flects the same fine feeling for California Housing Association Adopts War-time Program ......... 39 the classic that has character- Unique Welded Steel Hotel 43 ized his other works. What the Architects Are Doing 47 N'ery different in design and PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS character is Mr. Wurster's girls' dormitory An Interesting Detail, Lockwood Gardens Low Rent back of the Housing Project, Oakland, California ... 14 compus, dedicated a few Views of Lockwood Project with Drawings and Plans .16-18 weeks ago and likely to pro- \oke expressions for and Views of Peralta Project with Drawings and Plans .21-23 against its rather extreme mod- Plans . 24-26 Views of Campbell Project with Drawings and ern tendencies. Because the Shore Base for State Merchant Marine Training School, landscaping is incomplete Mr. near Vallejo 28 Wurster has asked us to delay Home of Speidel Newspapers- Inc. .... 37 publication for awhile (prob- ably until December) our Welded Steel Hotel, Lake Louise, Canada ... 43 so plans to present both buildings in the same issue have been EDITOR, FRED'K W. JONES*; ASSISTANT EDITOR, E. N. KIERULFF»: CONSULTING AND altered and only Mr. Brown's CONTRIBUTING EDITOR. MARK DANIELS; ADVERTISING MANAGER, R. W. WALKER. REGULAR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Harris C. Allen, Harry Sanders, Ben H. O'Connor. building will be illustrated Glenn Stanton. Roi L. Morin. Ctias. H. Alden, Irving f. Morrow. next month. HONORARY EDITORS: Arttiur Brown. Jr.. Timotliy L. Pflueger. Lewis P. Hobarf. Wm. W. Wurster. Will G. Corlett. Frederick H. Meyer. Thos. J, Kent, Gordon B. Kaufmann. Paul R. Hunter Michael Goodman, Harry Michelsen. • War Dept. Postal Censor (Prints and Publications) .Vddci.! interest in this num- * Lieut. U.S.N.R. ber will be an excellent selec- tion ol the recent work of .Messrs. Lawrence, Holford &: ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Is published on the 15th of the month by The Architect and AUyn, architects of Portland. Engineer, Inc.. 68 Post Street. San Francisco. President. K. P. Kieruiff; Vice President, Fred'k W. Jones; Secretary and Business Manager, L. B. Penhorwood. Oregon, which includes the Entered as second class matter, November 2, 1905, at the Post Office in San Francisco, University of Oregon Medical and Pan America. California, under the Act of March 3, 1897. Subscriptions, United States School, Library and Hospital $3.00 a year; foreign countries $5.00 a year; single copy $ .50. and the Victory Housing Proj- Los Angeles office: 1709 W. 8th street, Wentworth Green. Manager. 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By remelting scrap to make new steel, more tons of high- quality products can be turned out in a hurry for war purposes. So make it your personal war assignment to see that your organization does a thorough, con- COLUMBIA STEEL COMPANY. .Van Francisco AMERICAN tinuous job of "getting in the STEEL & WIRE COMPAN'^', Cleveland. Chicago and New York scrap." Cooperate closely CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATIO.N. Pillsburgh and with your local Industrial Chicaso .N.ATIONAL TLBE COMPAN'^'. Pillahnrth Salvage Committee. TEN.NESSEE COAL. IRON 4 RAILROAD COMPANY. Hirm:-:-ham UNITED STATES STEEL OCTOBER, 1942 RUnninG fire— By mark DBnieis. fl. I. fl. • en iiJZ.iTJox did all the blood letting as well as midwifery. Now Sometimes if you can't define a thing because you it is almost impossible to find a doctor that is even a can't tell what it is, you can clarify the picture by good barber. telling what it is not. Civilization is one of those The same seems to be holding true of the architects. "things." Contentions that civilization is this or that, The old school architects who gloried in pure design, according to the date of the dictionary used to define in schools of ornament, in the history and traditions the word, leaves most of us still wondering what it is of architecture, who knew every element and order all about. Arguments that civilization reached its from the Amphithalmus to the Zotheca are bowing zenith at one period or another all have weight if gracefully and giving place to a new type of archi- they are predicated upon the assumption that the tect who doesn't know a triglyph from a fig leaf and conditions obtaining at the time chosen were essen- doesn't care. He is going to build a building that tials of civilization. On such an hypothesis one might, he thinks will do the physical job and let people look and should, select the days of the Tang dynasty in at it until they like it. He is going to throw away the China, or skip a thousand years and stop at the sign hats and use what nature provided. He's going to of the Aztecs in Mexico, or at medieval times when so quit barbering and start doctoring. many great artists and architects were bunched into Well, that's what a long war does to us sometimes. a period of half a century. But this still leaves us • STAXDARDIZING asking what civilization is and why we are continu- While the bureaus in Washington are at it stand- ally harping about it if we don't know what it is. ardizing everything from ornament to temperament, Well, there really is no definition of civilization from flying ships to April showers, it is a pity they that will meet everyone's approval. It is not a thing cannot take a little time to standardize sizes, shapes empirical to be defined like a pint or a pound, a stick and methods of construction, such as screw threads, or a stone. It is made up of many elements and its locks, and bolts and nuts, even if Mr. Hoover did start composition is in a constant state of flux, aided and it over ten years ago! abetted therein by that greater flux in what we so • HOUSING boastfully call the human mind.