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Modernist No More: Home by Famous Architect Is Razed
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by innes | January 14, 2007 at 07:31 am
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WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 13 â A Modernist house designed by the
renowned architect Paul Rudolph and at the center of a highly public
dispute over its demolition was being torn down Saturday, despite a
last-minute effort by the state attorney general to save it.
Crews
arrived at the property on Minute Man Hill Road just after 8 a.m. When
they began demolishing the house, the police ordered members of the
news media out of the immediate area.
As the morning wore on,
trash-hauling trucks carried away the remnants of the 4,200-square-foot
home designed in 1972 by Mr. Rudolph, the chairman of Yaleâs
School of Architecture in the early 1960s. The house was an elongated
series of interconnecting cubes, with the eastern end hovering over the
ground. By the afternoon, little of it remained.
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at 07:44 on January 14th, 2007
On the other hand, maybe modernism was an aesthetic crime...
On the third hand, it's interesting to see the retro-modernist houses now being built, don't even know what they are called: shed roofs, big glass walls, somewhat industrial. Thanks for the posting.