Abstract

This essay examines how a small cottage built in 1915 on the Oregon coast became the Rosetta Stone of Pacific Northwest regional modernism. It places the historiographical project of regional modernism articulated in the 1970s alongside a history of timber in the region in order to understand how place was characterized, and designed, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Timber history situates architecture within a broader network, including different species of trees, the soil in which they grow, the practices and ownerships to which they are subject, the mills that transform them into timber, the ships that carry logs to Asia, and the caprices of the residential housing market towards which much of the lumber industry is oriented. These material relationships expose a complicated assemblage of place that has defined the Pacific Northwest regional style.

摘要

本文探讨了 1915 年在俄勒冈海岸建造的一座小别墅如何成为太平洋西北地区现代主义的罗塞塔石碑。它将 1970 年代阐述的区域现代主义的历史项目与该地区的木材历史放在一起，以了解美国太平洋西北部的地方是如何被表征和设计的。木材历史将建筑置于更广泛的网络中，包括不同种类的树木、它们生长的土壤、它们所受的实践和所有权、将它们转化为木材的工厂、将原木运往亚洲的船只以及大部分木材行业所针对的住宅市场的反复无常。