Jones raised the tract house in California from the simple stucco box to a logically designed structure integrated into the landscape and surrounded by greenbelts.

Johnson had already had a building installed on the property as the main house that was generally described as a plain, stucco box.

I stood on the front steps of Medora Sanders's house, a modest stucco box with a shallow overhang that served to shield the small concrete porch.

On a wooded hillside here, about 20 miles northwest of Hartford, he built a sunny stucco box with a steel frame, the first International Style country house in America.

With a small budget, he could transform almost any stucco box into the Hollywood Regency style.

Always cuboid, the stucco boxes usually contain six to eight apartments per building.

The external ornamentation holds most of the aesthetic appeal that is to be found in a stucco box.

Where he grew up, bowling alleys had always been white stucco boxes with a giant-size pin towering over the parking lot.

The little gingerbread structures were wedged between three-story stucco boxes with tenant parking underneath and everywhere there was evidence of the same tasteless disregard for history.

Although their best buildings were powerful and beautiful forms, most tended to be stern and puritanical - glass or white stucco boxes.