DOI Heft:
No. 196 (July, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Architectural gardening, [6]: With illustrations after designs by C. F. Mallows, F. R. I. B. A., and F. L. Griggs
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0132
A rchitectural Gardening.—VI.
the production of all fine art. The fantastic pro-
cess through which modern building was and, for
the greater part, still is produced, would be a
subject for mirth if the results were not so serious.
Our architecture of to-day is a hotch-potch
gathered from all sources and put together—it
can hardly be called designed—in an indiscrim-
inate and unreasoning way. At one time Belgium
has been searched for “inspirations,” at another
Holland, another Spain, then Italy, Greece and
Japan, and now with the entente cordiale France
comes to our rescue, and we are told to speak a
kind of broken French (in some excellent London
examples the pure French of Paris) in our streets
and country houses. This is almost as sensible
a proceeding as if it were proposed, as part of
our future national education, that French should
replace the mother-tongue.
The foundation of all sound principles in art
is, after all, nothing but that provided by reason
and common sense. Failing all other knowledge,
house and garden design will, at least, never be
offensive if these two qualities form the basis of
the superstructure and it expresses the purpose it
is intended to serve in simple and natural terms.
The designs here illustrated show some endeavours
to keep on that sound basis.
The little sketch on page 102 of the exterior
of a small house surrounded by a compara-
tively large garden shows, together with the plan
on page 105, an attempt to design a house on
the most compact and economical lines possible
for about the sum of ^750, exclusive of course of
the garden. The plan sufficiently explains the
general disposition of the rooms, and the perspec-
tive view the external appearance. The roof
covering is proposed of reed thatching with ordi-
nary cheap bricks for the walling thickly white-
washed.
The view on page 103 sufficiently explains the
character of the external design of this house.
In plan it has all the principal rooms around three
sides of a central cloister court, the level of which
is about 4 feet above the top step of the long flight
from the riverside and about 9 feet below the
general level of the principal floor where the
entertaining rooms are placed. The site itself
falls rapidly to the river, so that the entrance,
FLAN OF SEASIDE HOUSE AND GARDEN AT HAPPISBURGH
I06
DESIGNED BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.LB.A.
the production of all fine art. The fantastic pro-
cess through which modern building was and, for
the greater part, still is produced, would be a
subject for mirth if the results were not so serious.
Our architecture of to-day is a hotch-potch
gathered from all sources and put together—it
can hardly be called designed—in an indiscrim-
inate and unreasoning way. At one time Belgium
has been searched for “inspirations,” at another
Holland, another Spain, then Italy, Greece and
Japan, and now with the entente cordiale France
comes to our rescue, and we are told to speak a
kind of broken French (in some excellent London
examples the pure French of Paris) in our streets
and country houses. This is almost as sensible
a proceeding as if it were proposed, as part of
our future national education, that French should
replace the mother-tongue.
The foundation of all sound principles in art
is, after all, nothing but that provided by reason
and common sense. Failing all other knowledge,
house and garden design will, at least, never be
offensive if these two qualities form the basis of
the superstructure and it expresses the purpose it
is intended to serve in simple and natural terms.
The designs here illustrated show some endeavours
to keep on that sound basis.
The little sketch on page 102 of the exterior
of a small house surrounded by a compara-
tively large garden shows, together with the plan
on page 105, an attempt to design a house on
the most compact and economical lines possible
for about the sum of ^750, exclusive of course of
the garden. The plan sufficiently explains the
general disposition of the rooms, and the perspec-
tive view the external appearance. The roof
covering is proposed of reed thatching with ordi-
nary cheap bricks for the walling thickly white-
washed.
The view on page 103 sufficiently explains the
character of the external design of this house.
In plan it has all the principal rooms around three
sides of a central cloister court, the level of which
is about 4 feet above the top step of the long flight
from the riverside and about 9 feet below the
general level of the principal floor where the
entertaining rooms are placed. The site itself
falls rapidly to the river, so that the entrance,
FLAN OF SEASIDE HOUSE AND GARDEN AT HAPPISBURGH
I06
DESIGNED BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.LB.A.