Chapter I
I
Interior / Exterior Art
Forced perspective, garden rooms, and the crossing of the threshold. Light admitted through the plank, the window as a picture plane.
3 studies
Chapter I
PL-01 · Fig. A
The picture plane as threshold
Architectural photograph / interior study
N.1White sliding sash. Two lights. Sill as a shelf for light.
N.2Bamboo massed to the left; pergola and fence beyond to the right.
N.3The window is not a view — it is a proportion. The grove is a curtain.
N.4Vide: Wright, destruction of the box. Interior borrows the garden.
FOL. 01
PL-02 · Fig. B
Corner vessel, dual garden lights
Interior architecture
N.1Corner jacuzzi set in mosaic. Two garden windows meet at the vessel.
N.2Green plaster above the wainscot. Tile as a waterline.
N.3Bamboo and gravel beyond the glass — the bath is a garden room.
N.4Wright: compression of the corner, release into landscape.
FOL. 02
PL-03 · Fig. C
Compression of the garden path
Landscape architecture
N.1Timber pergola as a gate. Vertical board fence. Brick walk.
N.2Schefflera to the left, bamboo to the right — living jambs.
N.3The white house and dark door are the release after the path.
N.4Rays of light made with the vertical spaces in the wood planks.
FOL. 03