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Title: Smith and Williams: Dunn house (Pasadena, Calif.)
Creator: Whitney Smith, architect Smith and Williams, architects Julius Shulman, photographer William Rudolph, associate architect
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Publication Information: Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum
Collection: Smith and Williams
Rights Information: © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10) Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. University of California Regents.
Description: This house may be the strongest example of Smith’s and Williams’s belief in the architect as a solver of problems. Smith convinced the Dunns not to tear down their Greene and Greene-designed James Culbertson house. The Dunns wanted a smaller, less formal house with more light and fewer stairs. Smith and Williams took off the second floor and opened up the first level to the site. As a native son of Pasadena, Smith knew Greene and Greene’s buildings well. His 1941-1942 letters to Charles S. Greene convey his admiration for and the influence of their work.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: adc_175
http://www.adc-exhibits.museum.ucsb.edu/items/show/513
Language: English
Place: Pasadena, Calif.
Source: Smith & Williams records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Relation: adc_175

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