Excerpt from The Architect and Engineer of California, Vol. 44: January, 1916 The Zuni pueblos built in the cliffs might be taken as the crude proto types oi Mr. H. C. Smith's remarkable apartment houses illustrated in these pages, but the gap between them is the gap between a peashooter and a French 75. The general principle of course is very easy to grasp. One has only to illustrate it with a few toy building blocks. If these are piled on top of one another, each might represent an apartment group in a building of several stories. But if these blocks are placed against a steep slope so that they recede and overlap like a flight of steps with the same raking angle as the hillside, you get the principle of these remarkable apartments where the roof of one suite becomes the forecourt of the one above and behind it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.