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No.7

EM---Yes, true. Which was what took him to architecture in the first place.

MW---Was he considered as [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a modernist? [[strikethrough]] or among the modern people? [[/strikethrough]]

EM---No, not really.

MW---He's more like the Bay style ? Or, how can you describe him, or his style ?

EM---Well, I think they felt that he was carrying on from the Greene & Greene.

MW---So, regional.

EM---Yes. [[strikethrough]] and that was what. [[/strikethrough]] However he did do these houses of studs & plaster here, and they were always closer to Wright than his houses of wood. I happen to like the wood houses immensely---the [[strikethrough]] Wiley [[/strikethrough]] Wyle House is one of my favorites and then of course the Havens House [[strikethrough]] I think is a good thing. [[/strikethrough]] is wonderful. He did do some wood things in Texas.

MW---So maybe he was [[strikethrough]] a very [[/strikethrough]] unique [[strikethrough]] character [[/strikethrough]] because he was able to use those different styles. [[strikethrough]] with his life. [[/strikethrough]]

EM---Yes.

MW---We should now talk about his colleagues : Soriano and Ain, and maybe we should start from Ain. And for me that's something that surprises me that Ain started very young & very active in the 30's. Was it because of the depression? [[strikethrough]] and he couldn't do anything or was--- [[/strikethrough]]

EM---[[strikethrough]] A lot of that was for being in schools, and [[/strikethrough]] He built less and less after he began teaching. He enjoyed teaching. 

MW---I see. So he became more like a teacher than an architect.

EM---Yes.

MW---What do you think of Ain and his work ?

EM---[[strikethrough]]It's very nice.[[/strikethrough]] It's very crisp. And it's---there's a--- I like those [[strikethrough]] tube floors [[/strikethrough]] two by fours that are painted white and [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] frame things. [[strikethrough]]It's packaged. [[/strikethrough]]  It is [[strikethrough]] such [[/strikethrough]] so neatly packaged in these ribbons of white painted [[strikethrough]] tuba floors. And this is--- [[/strikethrough]] 2 X 4s. He did so much with those, and they became a sort of design [[strikethrough]] I think he got that from Schindler, but never mind--- it became sort of a design [[/strikethrough]] symbol for him, the 4 X 4, look at [[strikethrough]] it in [[/strikethrough]] the Dunsmuir [[strikethrough]] apartment [[/strikethrough]] flats. Those were all 4 X 4's.

MW---So although he worked for Neutra for some period, he was more influenced