Hart Wood: Architectural Regionalism in Hawaii

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HART WOOD HART WOOD (9*/0;,*;(00 Don Hibbard Glenn Mason Karen Weitze UNIVERSITY of HAWAI‘I PRESS (  3 (; 0 ; < + ,     ) 6 6 2 H O N O L U L U © 2010 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Hibbard, Don. Hart Wood : architectural regionalism in Hawaii / Don Hibbard, Glenn Mason, and Karen Weitze. p. cm. “A latitude 20 book.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8248-3236-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Wood, Hart, 1880–1957—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Regionalism in architecture—Hawaii. I. Mason, Glenn (Glenn E.) II. Weitze, Karen J. III. Title. NA737.W515.A8 2010 720.92—dc22 2009026865 Designed by Julie Matsuo-Chun THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO OUR CHILDREN. Conceived before any of them, it waited until they had grown before blossoming. This page intentionally left blank. THE DICTIONARY defines an architect as a master builder, and architecture as the art or science of building. These definitions, however, take no account of architecture as a fine art. Yet it is so considered and accepted among the artistic fraternity. And as a fine art it is one of the most important of all the fine arts in the daily lives of all of us who live in civilized communities. The contemplation or enjoyment of any one of the others, such as music, painting, sculpture, poetry, etc., requires some expenditure of effort, time, or money and is for most of us a matter of casual or at least infrequent occurrence. Whereas architecture, in some form or another, good or bad, confronts us practically 24 hours of every day, and causes definite reactions on our conscious experience. —HART WOOD ...