Greene and Greene

U.S. architecture firm. Charles Sumner Greene (b. Oct. 12, 1868, Brighton, Ohio, U.S.—d. June 11, 1957, Carmel, Calif.) and his brother Henry Mather Greene (b. Jan. 23, 1870, Brighton, Ohio, U.S.—d. Oct. 2, 1954, Pasadena, Calif.) established a partnership in Pasadena, Calif., in 1894. Using a Modernist approach, they pushed the older Stick style further than it had ever gone. In the years 1904–11 they pioneered the influential California bungalow, a single-storied house with a low-pitched roof. Their bungalows feature wide, low volumes, the use of balconies and verandas to achieve a melding of indoor and outdoor space, and frank utilization of wood members (sticks), exquisitely worked and extending gracefully beyond the edges of the spreading gables.

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