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| A dingbat apartment in southern California | | | | a development-driven southern California was in full |
| A dingbat (also called a stucco box or a shoebox), is a | | | | stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, |
| type of architecturally undistinguished apartment building | | | | draining waterways and filling in wetlands...In our rush to |
| that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United | | | | build 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 overhangs | | | | with the 'dingbat' apartment house, a boxy two-story |
| sheltering street-front parking. The elevation view of a | | | | walk-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 found | | | | Geographer Barbara Rubin writes that since the |
| in Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada and Vancouver | | | | existing housing stock of California bungalows, |
| they are known for their downmarket status and | | | | Mediterranean-style small houses, Spanish Colonial |
| inexpensive rents. They are currently experiencing a | | | | Revival 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 of | | | | increase in density, yet human in scale, and economical |
| their serviceability as functional, affordable housing, and | | | | to construct, evolved by the early 1950s." This was the |
| the niche appeal of their trappings and trim, dingbats | | | | dingbat. |
| are widely reviled as socially alienating visual blights; | | | | Dingbats were appealing to the real-estate trifecta of |
| California historian Leonard Pitt said of them, "The | | | | builders, landlords and renters: |
| dingbat typifies Los Angeles apartment architecture at | | | | Developers fostered the cookie-cutter, straight-line |
| its worst." | | | | approach to building because simplicity and repetition |
| Name | | | | held down costs, allowed economies of scale and |
| The origin of the term dingbat is much debated; the | | | | required much less skilled labor than would curvier or |
| only thing known for sure is that the appellation arrived | | | | more creative buildings. No one developer bears the |
| after the buildings themselves. The first textual | | | | ignominy of promoting the dingbat. Instead, stucco |
| reference was made by Reyner Banham in Los | | | | boxes were an architectural meme of their time, one |
| Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971); he | | | | that was simple enough for a large number of |
| credits the coining to architect Francis Ventre and | | | | contractors to replicate wherever the opportunity |
| describes them. | | | | presented itself. |
| "...[Dingbats] are normally a two-story walk-up | | | | Land owners profited if they invested in the new |
| apartment-block developed back over the full depth of | | | | apartment style and replaced one or two streams of |
| the site, built of wood and stuccoed over. These are | | | | rental income with triple or quadruple the number of |
| the materials that Rudolf Schindler and others used to | | | | monthly rent checks. |
| build the first modern architecture in Los Angeles, and | | | | Since each unit typically had a private entrance, stucco |
| the dingbat, left to its own devices, often exhibits the | | | | boxes 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, they | | | | aspired to owning a detached, single-family home, and |
| display simple rectangular forms and flush smooth | | | | with on-site parking, dingbats paid proper homage to |
| surfaces, skinny steel columns and simple boxed | | | | the significance of car culture in post-war American |
| balconies, and extensive overhangs to shelter four or | | | | life. |
| five cars..." | | | | Rubin continues, "Inserted into empty lots or replacing |
| The word is sometimes said to reference dingbat in | | | | the [existing] residential stock, the dingbat [was] a |
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