Evening star., 1922-03-18
FINDS HOUSES LOSING BEAUTY !
THROUGH QUANTITY BUILDING
Washington Architect Says Speculative
Production Is Putting Designers of
Good Taste Out of Business.

II prospective home builders or
home buyers could only understand
that they could have all stock orna-
ments and holdings taken directly
from beautiful colonial examples
with no more expenditure than they are
now making for very ugly stuff, the
architectural problem in this country
today would be half solved. accord
ing to waddy B. Wood, Washing
ton architect, in an article contrib
uted by him to the February num-
Der of Country Life and calculated TO
be of interest and benefit to every
home purchaser. Portions OF this
article, together with some OF the
telling Illustrations which accom-
panied it, are herewith reproduced
through the courtesy Of Country Lie
Machine Replacing Hand.
1--WE find that as civilization pro :
crosses the. machine has more anu
more taken the place Of the hand III
building" writes Mr.. Wood, IN part
This being the case, it is undouDteo-
ly>true that in designing our houses
TODAY we have to remember that a
great many things we use. being n'a
chine made, are necessarily stoch Vi
duplicate parts. This was as true III
colonial days as it is now aithoush
most people do not appreciate lnis iau..
..The present tendency OF auamt at,
nroduction of houses that are oougn,,
aftar heinr built for SPECTATORS
exnlains the architect. sis to meet tne
demand for the number of rooms. etI.'
in the most economical way posS,D.
The speculative builder is not wi!,nt i...
to spend one cent on renheI" 80, 80
he does not get back when tney ans
sold This quantity 'producton. as
NOW done. is putting out or business
the average architect. who can DO the
most good in clevating taste.
Refinement Is Lost.
..The speculator can undoubteuls
b,,iId more economically without IN. tns
architect, but he cannot pui'o as ~;
nor can he give the remhel @ raonle He
has found it better salesmahsn'p ~ :,
n.n5a- to present designs rather Una
=" elevate taste. If the pubic cou.u
be educated to recognize tnat d aoI
however small. designed by go
architect has greater actuai h.o
~aine than one Of the horrible types
NJ bungalow and other monstroSS, t =
th,t ore now SO popular. 1t woulu ue
great step toward better arch''e-
ture. -o,nd the
:"The beautiful holdings around .rort ri
doors. windows. etc: of colonial hich MTsh
Were done by a crude machine. wn,S.' ~, y
was bit in plane pushed ny ane
hand of man: The only ,H.t o'meId meldins
in the manufacture OF tnat IlO .hs
I'd The one of today is that now the
plane is p9shed, ,s, by maShlnels n,,r meIsinss are
nnt az good as in the past (Wntcn
applies with equal equal f. to1fs tSe buildins1 tu %
is No, due to machinery. as so many
people seem to think. but to otnsr
causes"
Too Much Undigested.
Among the causes listed by Mr..
wood as underlying the fact ina.
colonial houses evidence 1ar et pe.s
art than we are producing at present
is the possession by the modern aren-
itect of too many books and too nue.. On
undigested knowledge. Even this. ne
points out, is not the. only cause:
neither is any lack of knowledge OIL
beautiful, colonial houses.
A very important reason: ne enl-