Esther McCoy Irving Gill 1870-1936 Five California Architects, 1960, Reprinted in Marvin Rand Irving J. Gill: Architect 1870-1936, Gibbs Smith, Publisher: Salt Lake City, UT, Design, Ahde Lahti; Photographs, Marvin Rand, 2006, 238 pp. pp. 219-227, 2006a, 1960, 1919
"What might have developed out of this new turn Gill's work [Dodge House, 1915; Scripps House, 1916] was taking can only be guessed, but it seems clear that something was happening to his style. However, almost thirteen yeas passed before he build his next large structure. The small Horatio West Court in Santa Monica of 1919 did, however, confirm his interest in experimentation. The bands of glass on three sides of the second-story living rooms of the five-room units indicated a new concern with transparency.