My mother was an art and architecture historian in the Edinburgh college of art in the 60s, 70s and 80s and I recall her showing me these, in a very fine book of the architect.
I think a degree of playfulness in buildings is good. Sometimes you want clean lines and minimalism but sometimes you get a better connection to people by doing these things.
I have no sense if they actually were functionally easy to maintain and workable but they certainly stood out in my mind. I recognized the frontage immediately, from a book I haven't seen in over thirty years.
I think a degree of playfulness in buildings is good. Sometimes you want clean lines and minimalism but sometimes you get a better connection to people by doing these things.
I have no sense if they actually were functionally easy to maintain and workable but they certainly stood out in my mind. I recognized the frontage immediately, from a book I haven't seen in over thirty years.