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Show BUILDING IN SALT [,A KE CITY. 37 gains immensely from the skill \I-oul d be apt to disparage such efforts \1:itll which its composition is adapted to by saying that they are . of no style. th e site, a knoll following and {c~nce n And yet, unless his native sensibility had trically enclosing the sweep of the circu- been entirely sophisticated out of him by lar verandah. his training and his practice, he could ~1fie houSeS'" of less pretension. of no not deny that they have style. The idiompretension in fact but that of out~v2rc11y atic and vernacular character of the expressing the fact that thev are COl11- "nook" in particular must.impress the beiortable homes adapted to tIle needs of holder. It is simplY- a ' straightforward their occupants, I am sorry that I have treatment'of the material'at hand for the but one example to show, No. 16, al- purpose in vie,,", and .the sparing decothough the City of the Saints abounds in ration seems to grow qu~tenatural1y out examples. Such an example of no hi s- of the conditions, l 'as .- naturally as the torical style at all, hut example of th e decoration, say, of a·. Polynesian paddle. hahitation to which thc plcrely wcll-to-do This · is -. "originality:' , irithe best sense, America n attains. and to which even' the sense not of novelty hut of sincerity. American may fairly aspire, is the mor:~ It , has no reminiscences of historical valuable, as No. 17 is the more "aluahle styles, though one 'can: say. with considerfor not bcing exceptional but typical, . able confidence.: 'that .• it· could not have and for having its likc in every city ami been done 'without " study , of historical almost every village from ocean to styles . and ' the sensibility,that comes or ocean. As an architectural "symptom" that study. . These characters of straightit has nothing discouraging. A5 a socia1 . iorwardness, " of simplicity are in evisymptom it abounds in national encour- dencc in the interiors of the University agcment. . Club 'to the same " restilt of ' vernacuSome of these Salt Lake houses come. brity. It is such things as these, more Ilear that goal of the modern and espe- frequcnt in tHe ,"Vest than in the East, cially of the American architect, the that give .Ollr best hope for the future of production of a building which, being pf American 'architecture, such things much no "style," yef' has style. But it is per- more than the "examp}~<;~ and the reprobaps oftener in interiors than' in exte- ductions. It ·is gratifying- to see that riors that the goal is attained. The im,- the City of the Latter Day Saints has its ported decorator, the worker in historical share of them. styl es, to whom art means archa~ology, Franz K. T¥inkler. C;ll1 iS 111 |
