Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Shakespeare," as Marioara put it one afternoon last week. She had just been reciting Richard III from memory but Henry IV's Falstaff is her favorite character because "he's an exaggerator." Her little brother Richard idly remarked that the sun shining on the roof generated the same heat as 140 tons of soft coal. "Bi tuminous or lignite?" countered Brother David. Richard changed the subject to an 1865 coin that his mother owns. When Daniel recalled 1865 as the year of Jean Sibelius' birth. "They talk awfully good," says their neighbor Susan Rule...
Washbasin Roof. By the age of 30, when Jeanneret was ready to leave La Chaux-de-Fonds for good ("The Swiss are cleanly and industrious and to hell with them"), he had put up a couple of chalets, an exotic dwelling of screaming yellows called the Turkish Villa, and a movie house with a bare concrete facade trimmed with blue mosaics. When the municipal authorities complained that his Turkish Villa did not go with its site, young Jeanneret retorted: "It is the setting that does not go with my house." In his chalets he scornfully abandoned the traditional Swiss peaked...
...Building. In all his work, Corbu had lifted his prisms on high to reclaim the land underneath. His columned structures had freed the façade for inventive sculpturing, opened up interiors, surrendered the long dark walls to light. And as a grace note, he had added the roof garden. These devices, which he imperiously declared to be the basis of a "fundamentally new esthetic," seem simple in retrospect-but then, so does the arch...
...better for Corbu from then on. The next year, on a broad green site in Poissy, he built a residence called Villa Savoye. Like his other buildings, it was basically a "pure prism" raised on stilts (pilotis), banded horizontally with long ribbon windows and topped with a roof garden. But its geometry was pure liquid, with every room and level flowing into the next as if the walls and floors could be dissovled at will, until the villa itself has become an "architectural promenade...
...door. They pause in a tiny waiting room, and finally a small gate with a ferocious KEEP OUT sign opens. Past the gate is the cramped office of the master- a lonely, childless widower whose office is dominated by a big blow-up photgraph of children on his Marseille roof...