"As you walk along the river, an outline appears through the trees: a construction of unembellished planes, with an emphasis on visual balance over symmetry, and volume over mass." Exploring an icon of the mid 20th century International Style.
Calming Space
VINCENT VAN DUYSEN'S HOME
"Architecture is about the elimination of excess, and creating serenity in essential forms and spaces." Vincent Van Duysen's Antwerp apartment; a balance of textural warmth and simplicity.
"Later still, all detail will be lost in a blaze of white. Each new angle reveals a different shape; from seashell to spiky succulent, armour plating to exotic fruit, reclining reptile to felucca flotilla."
"The image is instantly familiar; the house, all dramatic angles, concrete, steel and glass, perched indelibly above Los Angeles, with Hollywood's lights resembling a circuit board below it." Stahl House, the classic L shaped pavilion, designed by architect Pierre Koenig for the Case Study Program.
"On the roof it is hot and harsh, and later there will be shade. Vertical planes of persimmon orange and medicinal pink combine in the eye to create an abstract composition; beneath my feet, a de Chirico grid extends and hits the wall at a right angle ... This is a place of constructed horizons. An acknowledgment of absolute solitude." Visiting the home of architect Luis Barragán, designed for himself in 1948, in the Tacubaya district of Mexico City.
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