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Excerpt from The Joke About Housing Prominence in the United States, and When rumblings of the oncoming disaster, in the shape of an acute shortage of houses in the United States, were plainly audible, The Journal of the American Institute of Architects and the Ladies Home Journal joined in holding a competition for The Best Solution of the Housing Problem. The terms of the competition Were unique and provided for the submission of two written theses, one upon the social purpose Which any solution should seek to aecom plish, and the other upon the economic method by Which such a solution could be accomplished. In addition to these require ments there was a third, Which embraced a, simple drawing of the physical plan that should illustrate the application of the prin ciples set forth in the two theses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Charles Harris Whitaker was born on May 19, 1872 in Woonsocket, R. I, the son of Joseph Whitaker, a successful hydraulic engineer, and Lucy Ann (Monroe) Whitaker. He was one of seven children, of whom three, including an older brother, lived to maturity.
His education seems to have been both fragmentary and unorthodox. Though he received high grades, he left the English High School in Boston without graduating. In the following year, apparently with his parents' consent, he made the first of many trips to Europe, but he had no further schooling; he later professed a deep distrust of university education. Even in architecture, the field of his principal accomplishments, his training was scant. In a later unpublished autobiographical study he wrote that as a youth he had wanted to be a builder. To this end he worked for several summers on construction jobs and in an architect's office, and in high school he took courses in freehand and mechanical drawing; but there his formal training ended.
As a young man he apparently spent much time in artistic circles in London, Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. From his long friendship with the three Venelle brothers, lithographers in Brussels, he developed a keen knowledge of prints and print-making. He served later as vice-president of the Cheltenham Press in New York City. Whitaker had a lifelong admiration for fine craftsmanship. Here he displayed his debt to John Ruskin and William Morris, the latter of whom especially had a strong influence on Whitaker's aesthetic and social theories. He protested strongly against "this new way of architects who used their heads and never soiled their hands. " But a passionate attachment to fine craftsmanship did not make of Whitaker, as it had of Ruskin and Morris, a protagonist of the Gothic Revival. Though he had a greater first-hand knowledge than most of his contemporaries of the Gothic structures of England, France, and Spain, he never proposed to revive them. On the contrary, he attacked the Gothic Revival wherever it appeared in America, as in the Woolworth Building in New York and the Chicago Tribune Tower. Nor was he any kinder to the attempt to revive the classic idiom. Despite the fact that he had lived in Greece and was a most sympathetic photographer of the Parthenon, he was bitterly opposed to contemporaneous attempts to reproduce its forms. His principal indictment of architectural training in American colleges was that the student was taught complete and uncritical subservience to the styles of the past. Opinions such as these, in the period prior to the 1930's, ran counter to those of the architectural profession. It is surprising, therefore, that Whitaker should have been editor-in-chief of a professional organ, the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, from its founding in 1913 until 1927. Under his editorship the Journal opened its pages to many new people inside and outside the profession. Most significant were the regional and town planners and the housing specialists. During his frequent trips abroad, Whitaker had come into contact with such English pioneers of town and country planning as Sir Patrick Geddes and Sir Raymond Unwin. To these men the pages of the Journal were open, as they were to their American counterparts - the architects Clarence Stein, Henry Wright (1878 - 1936), Frederick Ackerman, and Robert Kohn; Lewis Mumford, the writer; Benton Mackaye, the conservationist; and a host of others. This circle, brought together during the closing days of World War I by government activity in housing and town-building, formed the nucleus of the much more extensive housing and planning movements of the New Deal. But Whitaker's interest in the larger social and economic aspects of architecture did not cause him to neglect its aesthetic aspects. Intellectually he was a part of the native functionalist tradition expressed in the architecture of Henry H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Richardson was dead long before Whitaker's maturity. Wright and he were never friendly, despite the agreement of their views. But it was Whitaker who "rediscovered" Sullivan, bringing him back from years of obscurity and persuading him to write his famous Autobiography of an Idea (1924), which first appeared in the Journal of the A. I. A. in 1922-23. Whitaker was friendly to the emerging International Style of architecture. He had been thoroughly prepared for it by his many trips abroad, where, especially in Germany, he had met many of its leading exponents. One of these, Walter Curt Behrendt, Whitaker helped to come to America after the advent of Hitler. Like Ruskin and Sullivan before him, however, Whitaker felt that architectural form was but the expression of social process and that radical modification of the one necessitated reform of the other. Perhaps the most novel aspect of Whitaker's thought was that which furnished the theme of his major work, Rameses to Rockefeller: The Story of Architecture (1934). As he saw it, architecture, despite its noble accomplishments, had never placed its fructifying power at the disposal of the mass of the people generally. It had, instead, been monopolized by kings and prelates, emperors and priests. Thus, he wrote, he was beginning to wonder "whether or no these excessive expenditures were not the means of the ultimate impoverishment of the people and thus responsible for the low standard of life that prevailed amongst the bulk of ancient civilizations. " He died at his farm of cancer. By his own request his body was cremated.
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An erudite and charming man, tempestuous in his opinions yet gracious and tolerant as a friend, Whitaker spent the last years of his life on his farm at Great Falls, Va. , near Washington, D. C. , where his home was a focus of intellectual excitement for many of the young architects, planners, and housers of which the capital was then full.
Whitaker was twice married, the first time, in or about 1900, to Celia Huntington Rogers, from whom he was subsequently divorced. In 1922 he married Eugenia Foster. By his first wife he had four children: Rogers, Harris, Lucy Ann, and Francis.
