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Sold by Building Material Dealers for STUCCO POOLS MONOLITHIC CONCRETE BASEMENTS ^tASTIB free folder ti MORTAR This tells how to use TAN f] CAST STONE PLASTIC to get best results. PACIFIC PORTLAND CEMENT COMPA The Architect ^^^ Engineer VOLUME 124 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 19 3 6 COVER REFLECTING POOL, ADMINISTRATION CENTER FOR LOS ANGELES Proposed by William Lee Woollett, Architect FRONTISPIECE TERRACES AND GARDENS, ADMINISTRATION CENTER, LOS ANGELES Proposed by William Lee Woollett. Architect TEXT ADMINISTRATION CENTER FOR LOS ANGELES . II Wm. Hamilton TWO LOW COST MEDICO-DENTAL OFFICE BUILDINGS . 17 Frederick W. Jones ARCHITECTURE AT THE NATION'S CAPITOL 27 Katherlne Stanley Brown THE SAN FRANCISCO MINT 33 A WORLDS FAIR ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY 34 PRIZE AWARD HOUSE 37 BUILDING MODERNIZATION 39 DOME ROOF ELIMINATES COLUMNS AND TRUSSES ... 41 L H.NIshklan.C.E. THE BONNEVILLE DAM PROJECT 43 MONEL METAL MEETS GROWING FAVOR OF ARCHITECTS . 46 PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ADMINISTRATION CENTER, LOS ANGELES 11-14 William Lee Woollett, Architect WILLIAM LEE WOOLLETT, ARCHITECT 12 PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WATER FRONT. BERKELEY . 15 OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. S. N. WEIL. RODEO. CALIFORNIA . 18-21 Hertzka and Knowles. Architects OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. C. B. KNOWLES. OAKLAND . 22-25 Hertzka and Knowles, Architects SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE. LINCOLN MEMORIAL. FOLGER SHAKES- PEARE LIBRARY AND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, WASH- INGTON 27-30 Drawings by Rudolph Stanley Brown FREDERICK W. JONES UNITED STATES MINT, SAN FRANCISCO 33 Editor Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Architect PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF 1938 SAN FRANCISCO BAY WORLD'S HOMER M. HADLEY FAIR 34 ROBERT DENNIS MURRAY RESIDENCE OF THE MISSES GAIL AND MARIE HOUSTON, IRVING F. MORROW WESTWOOD 37-38 L. H. NISHKIAN H. Roy Kelley, Architect A. A. 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NOTES AND COMMENTS ENDORSEMENT by the Los PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT COMPARATIVELY little has Angeles Municipal Art Commission of a stands like iron in his belief that we have been said of the inconsistency between covering a comprehensive scheme billboards and highway beautiflcation: report come to a stage in the country's devel- for the civic center and related areas and in most states the two flit side by opment when unlimited, unrestricted com- in the Angel city, discloses a plan ambi- side or in annoying sequence past the petition must give way to cooperation, tious and imposing that might have mate- eye of the motorist. and a planned economy substituted for rialized but for a change of policy by That billboards are ugly will be denied the helter-skelter, the Federal Government, which at the haphazard, dog-eat-dog by no one except those financially inte- last minute has indicated its intention of system under which America has been rested. That they are a menace to safety choosing a different site than the one living. These same friends insist that the has been from time to time asserted but near the Railroad Terminal for its dis- President believes that the profit motive is not easy to prove except where they actually obstruct view of the road at tributing post office. That Mr. Wool- can be divorced from greed and brutal a lett's unique and not impractical "sunken curves or intersections, and where be- disregard of ethics and fair play. Cour- garden" idea met with the unanimous yond question, highway authorities should age, initiative and enterprise are to be approval of the city's art commission, is have power to remove them. preserved as precious heritages, but they indicated by its endorsement of the sur- The inconsistency between billboards vey and passage of a resolution request- must be the real article, and not mere and landscape improvements should be ing the author to submit a copy of his masks for rapacity. On that platform, I apparent to anyone, observes a writer in report to the American Institute of Arch- believe industry can stand with him. On Roads and Streets. Of what use is it itects for an opinion. that platform let us proceed now to to develop beautiful perspectives, or graceful slopes, or plantings of green pledge ourselves to go on to a new phase shrubbery in the vicinity of a wood or of usefulness.—Clyde G. Conley, Presi- metal sign which draws the eye by its dent American Institute of Steel Con- developments size, sharp outline, and vivid color? It is OUTSTANDING struction. silly to say that we need not look at in home design this year promise to cen- the sign if we don't want to. for it is ter around the kitchen and bath room. put there to be looked at, and its every The use of drawn metal for sinks and enough, scientific lighting of rooms is feature is carefully designed to force at- drainboards will make for more attrac- not yet generally practiced. All of this tention. Every beauty of adjacent land- tive kitchens and greater permanency of means that building science has not ad- scape is overwhelmed by its presence; fixtures, while bath rooms may be made vanced as far as the Sunday supplements while the distant scene too often is more colorful than ever by using two like to believe but has made definite broken, marred, or actually obscured tone colors, streamlined, of drawn metal. and, in some cases, extraordinary prog- by it. Somebody has remarked that the bath- ress. The building industry is about at A few far-seeing corporations already room of tomorrow will be such a pleas- midfield toward the goal of reducing the have stopped their billboard advertising ant place that "singing in the bathtub" cost and improving the quality of the and others undoubtedly will follow suit, will become a national habit. And this " house. but many will refuse to give up what same wag adds: "Should you wish to they consider a good advertising me- sing 'The Star Spangled Banner' while dium. These latter should be restricted bathing you can stand up in safety be- by law as far as can be done under the cau.se some of the new tubs have non- REFERRING to present day Constitution. skid bottoms." housing tendencies. Ely Jacques Kahn. 1 i 1 A.I.A., has summarized his prognostica- tions as follows: THE Oregon State capitol com- Flat and sloping roofs will hold their petition is creating nation-wide interest COMMENTING on home build- own. and details of the program are expected ing progress the past year The Archi- Glass will bulk much larger in con- to be made public shortly by the State tectural Forum says: struction uses. Capitol Reconstruction Commission. The "The greatest advances have been in In metals, bronze is still the favorite, building is to cost $3,500,000 and prizes equipment and appliances, particularly but it needs much care. Design tends to of sufficient size to attract the best pro- in air conditioning, heating, plumbing simpler forms. fessional talent in the United States, are and electrical devices, nearly all of We will not fake one material to look to be awarded. Appointment of a techni- which are suitable for houses of con- like another. cal adviser will be followed by the prep- ventional construction. Air conditioning Economic conditions bar tall struc- aration of a program of procedure. Mem- has increased in excellence and dropped tures, but capital will be back in the bers of the State Capitol Commission in- in cost.