ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 420
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Mar 20 09:04:44 PDT 2009
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THE TEXTILE BLOCK HOUSES
by Tim Street-Porter
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As the Hollyhock House neared completion in 1920, Frank
Lloyd Wright received a second Los Angeles commission,
from antiquarian Alice Millard, who had arrived in
Pasadena from Chicago in 1914. With her late husband she
had commissioned a classic Prairie-style house from
Wright in 1906; now she wanted something new, inspired
by the palazzi of Venice.
The prospect of designing an innovative house on the
available lot, which was flat and undramatic, was
unappealing to Wright, who persuaded his client to buy
the adjoining arroyo and to straddle it with the house
that would be known as La Miniatura. A reflecting pool
on the downstream side would evoke a Venetian lagoon.
As built it remains one of Wright's most magical houses.
Viewed from the lower arroyo, mirrored by a reflecting
pool and framed by giant eucalyptus trees, the south
elevation resembles a temple lost in the jungle. A house
of pronounced verticality, La Miniatura's cubistic form
has a sculptural balance evident from any angle.
Cast-cement blocks extend a modular grid over every
surface, as if the house was constructed of Legos, and
lend order and rationality to the design.
La Miniatura was the first of four L.A. houses that
Wright built between 1923 and 1924, all constructed with
cement block. In adopting this most humble of building
materials, Wright hoped to create a new model for
inexpensive housing.
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Modern Prefab by Marmol Radziner
by Brian Libby
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The Rincon 5 by Los Angeles firm Marmol Radziner recalls
the pristine residential architecture of Mies van der
Rohe, though this guest house may have more in common
with the humble American mobile home.
The modular building exemplifies Marmol Radziner's
clean-lined contemporary design as applied to
pragmatic, affordable prefab housing. It is one of a
growing number of dwellings that have been designed,
fabricated, and built by the architect-led practice --
an unusual combination in even the most progressive
segments of the building industry.
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Hudson Architects in Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
- Hawkins Brown in Oxford, England, United Kingdom -
Toshiko Mori Architect in Buffalo, New York - Foster +
Partners in Paris, France - SmithGroup in Berkeley,
California...
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