Word: modular
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with related forms, the other on Mies van der Rohe's precise, modular construction, had already put up some of the best in glass, aluminum and steel that the U.S. can boast today...
...squirrel, a rabbit, two French poodles, a parakeet and two ring-necked doves, the house is, says Noyes, "a very hard-boiled piece of architecture." It is basically two houses set in a rectangle formed by side walls of fieldstone and glass. Carried out in a strict modular pattern (columns and girders joining at 11-ft. intervals), the design provides for living and working areas in one house, sleeping quarters in the other, which includes a laundry and small extra kitchen. The two parts are connected by open, roofed-over passageways. In winter, says Noyes, "it never fails...