The beauty of the project rests in the juxtaposition of carefully arranged planes–solid, opaque, and translucent–and their relations not only in the breaking up of space but in the reflection of greater space and in the containing and the enclosing and the releasing of space in creating an environment for a modern man.
One has the feeling of release and of being invited to an extension of one’s personal acceptance in the usual preconceived notions of “house.” There is a sense of pleasant surprise and knowing playfulness, but more than that respect for the essential qualities of the materials and the skills and the means by which they were brought together.