Well, it was time that some of our

Well, it was time that some of our architects remembered the non-mechanical and non-formal elements in architecture, that they remembered what a building says as well as what It does. A house, as the Uruguayan architect Julio Vilamajo has put it, should be as personal as one's clothes and should fit the family life just as well. This is not a new doctrine in the United States. People like Bernhard Maybeck and William Wilson Wurster, in California, always practiced it, and they took good care that their houses did not resemble factories or museums. So I don't propose to join the solemn gentlemen who, aware of this natural reaction against a sterile and abstract modernism, are predicting a return to the graceful stereotypes of the eighteenth century. Rather, I look for the continued spread, to every part of our country, of that native and humane form of modernism which one might call the Bay Region style, a free yet unobtrusive expression of the terrain, the climate, and the way of life on the Coast. That style took root about fifty years ago in Berkeley, California, in the early work of John Galen Howard and Maybeck, and by now, on the Coast, it is simply taken for granted; no one out there is foolish enough to imagine that there is any other proper way of building in our time. The style is actually a product of the meeting of Oriental and Occidental architectural, traditions, and it is far more truly a universal style than the so-called international style of the nineteen-thirties, since it permits regional adaptations and modifications. Some of the best examples of this at once native and universal tradition are being built in New England. The change that is now going on in both Europe and America means
only that modem architecture is past its adolescent period, with its quixotic purities, its awkward self-consciousness, its assertive dogmadtism. The good young architects today are familiar enough with the machine and its products and processes to take them for granted, and so they are ready to relax and enjoy themselves a little. That will be better for all of us

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Yah, sudah waktunya bahwa beberapa arsitek kami ingat unsur-unsur non-mechanical dan non formal dalam arsitektur, bahwa mereka ingat apa yang dikatakan sebuah bangunan serta apa yang dilakukannya. Sebuah rumah, seperti Uruguay arsitek Julio Vilamajo telah menempatkan itu, harus sebagai pribadi sebagai pakaian dan harus sesuai sama dengan baik untuk kehidupan keluarga. Hal ini tidak membuat doktrin yang baru di Amerika Serikat. Orang-orang seperti Bernhard Maybeck dan William Wilson Wurster, di California, selalu mempraktekkan hal itu, dan mereka mengambil perawatan yang baik itu rumah mereka tidak menyerupai pabrik atau Museum. Jadi saya tidak mengusulkan untuk bergabung dengan khidmat pria yang, menyadari reaksi alami terhadap modernisme steril dan abstrak, memprediksi kembali ke stereotip anggun abad ke-18. Sebaliknya, saya mencari penyebaran terus, untuk setiap bagian dari negara kita, yang asli dan manusiawi formulir modernisme mana yang mungkin panggilan wilayah Teluk gaya, ekspresi gratis namun tidak mengganggu Medan, iklim dan cara hidup di pantai. Bahwa gaya mengambil akar sekitar lima puluh tahun yang lalu di Berkeley, California, dalam karya awal John Galen Howard dan Maybeck, dan sekarang, di pantai, hanya diambil diberikan; tidak ada luar sana cukup bodoh untuk membayangkan bahwa ada cara lain tepat bangunan di zaman kita. Gaya ini sebenarnya merupakan produk pertemuan Oriental dan Occidental arsitektur, tradisi, dan itu jauh lebih benar-benar gaya yang universal dari gaya internasional disebut tiga-puluhan sembilan belas, karena ini memungkinkan daerah adaptasi dan modifikasi. Beberapa contoh terbaik dari tradisi ini sekaligus asli dan universal sedang dibangun di New England. Perubahan yang sekarang terjadi di Eropa dan Amerika berartionly that modem architecture is past its adolescent period, with its quixotic purities, its awkward self-consciousness, its assertive dogmadtism. The good young architects today are familiar enough with the machine and its products and processes to take them for granted, and so they are ready to relax and enjoy themselves a little. That will be better for all of us