Dingbat (building)

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A dingbat apartment in southern Californiaa development-driven southern California was in full
A dingbat (also called a stucco box or a shoebox), is astride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops,
type of architecturally undistinguished apartment buildingdraining waterways and filling in wetlands...In our rush to
that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the Unitedbuild we tolerated monumentally careless and
States in the 1950s and 1960s. Dingbats are boxy, two-unattractive urban design...Some of it [was] awfultart
or three-story apartment houses with overhangswith the 'dingbat' apartment house, a boxy two-story
sheltering street-front parking. The elevation view of awalk-up with sheltered parking at street level and not
dingbat is "half parking structure, half dumb box."one inch of outdoor space."
Particularly popular in southern California, but also foundGeographer Barbara Rubin writes that since the
in Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada and Vancouverexisting housing stock of California bungalows,
they are known for their downmarket status andMediterranean-style small houses, Spanish Colonial
inexpensive rents. They are currently experiencing aRevival duplexes and aging Victorians was insufficient,
minor sentimental renaissance thanks to the"a compromise capable of accommodating a marked
mid-century modern design return to vogue. In spite ofincrease in density, yet human in scale, and economical
their serviceability as functional, affordable housing, andto construct, evolved by the early 1950s." This was the
the niche appeal of their trappings and trim, dingbatsdingbat.
are widely reviled as socially alienating visual blights;Dingbats were appealing to the real-estate trifecta of
California historian Leonard Pitt said of them, "Thebuilders, landlords and renters:
dingbat typifies Los Angeles apartment architecture atDevelopers fostered the cookie-cutter, straight-line
its worst."approach to building because simplicity and repetition
Nameheld down costs, allowed economies of scale and
The origin of the term dingbat is much debated; therequired much less skilled labor than would curvier or
only thing known for sure is that the appellation arrivedmore creative buildings. No one developer bears the
after the buildings themselves. The first textualignominy of promoting the dingbat. Instead, stucco
reference was made by Reyner Banham in Losboxes were an architectural meme of their time, one
Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971); hethat was simple enough for a large number of
credits the coining to architect Francis Ventre andcontractors to replicate wherever the opportunity
describes them.presented itself.
"...[Dingbats] are normally a two-story walk-upLand owners profited if they invested in the new
apartment-block developed back over the full depth ofapartment style and replaced one or two streams of
the site, built of wood and stuccoed over. These arerental income with triple or quadruple the number of
the materials that Rudolf Schindler and others used tomonthly rent checks.
build the first modern architecture in Los Angeles, andSince each unit typically had a private entrance, stucco
the dingbat, left to its own devices, often exhibits theboxes offered an affordable, bite-size taste of the
basic characteristics of a primitive modern architecture.American Dream to up-and-coming city dwellers who
Round the back, away from the public gaze, theyaspired to owning a detached, single-family home, and
display simple rectangular forms and flush smoothwith on-site parking, dingbats paid proper homage to
surfaces, skinny steel columns and simple boxedthe significance of car culture in post-war American
balconies, and extensive overhangs to shelter four orlife.
five cars..."Rubin continues, "Inserted into empty lots or replacing
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