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Houses in the Japanese manner are still rising more in California than in the rest of the country. In Pasadena, Architects Whitney Smith & Wayne Williams have designed homes with features as Japanese as a house on the Nagara. "We're not trying to hide anything," says Architect Williams. "We don't have an exposed beam suddenly stopped by plaster. The eye can follow the line right to its logical conclusion. There's so much chaos and confusion in the outside world today that a person has a right to peace in his own home." Adds Partner Smith...
...most spectacular Japanese style buildings in the U.S. is New York's Motel on the Mountain, conceived by the gifted Japanese architect Junzo Yoshimura and largely executed by the energetic young architects Steinhardt & Thompson. Delicately poised on top of a mountain (which Yoshimura found similar to the settings of Japanese country inns), the motel is a complex of 14 buildings joined by covered walks. It has overhanging, many-levelled roofs, exposed beams, balconies and graceful stilts. Nearby are swimming pool, pond and a lake landscaped in Japanese style. Inside, the private rooms are furnished with an eye to simplicity...
Should a house of prayer be designed by a man who prays? Not necessarily, says Architect Heinz Rau, a German Jew raised in an orthodox family, and now (at 61) an outspoken atheist. Says he: "What is needed in a house of prayer is harmonious proportion and serene atmosphere. Whether an architect succeeds in creating these is a measure of the architect's professional capabilities, and not of his religious beliefs. After all, there isn't much difference in atmosphere between St. Mark's in Venice and a synagogue...
TAKE the Parthenon," said Manhattan Architect Marcel Breuer. "The sculpture is architectural decoration, whereas in our sculptural solutions we use completely independent forms which by some invisible, mysterious means 'jive' with the architecture." Breuer was talking to TIME Researcher Martha Peter Welch, who called on him last week to get his views on the relationship of outdoor sculpture to modern architecture. From the Parthenon Breuer moved quickly on to his UNESCO building, which is being put up in Paris with sculpture and murals by Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Arp, Miro and Picasso. As Breuer talked, he doodled...
BATH'S CIRCUS AND ROYAL CRESCENT, finished within six years of the Place de la Concorde, was one of Britain's supreme building triumphs. It resulted from the combined efforts of an unknown road builder, architect and artist named John Wood and his son John Wood Jr., who had taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval...