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Article: EARTH MOVES.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Combining contemporary and reinvigorated traditional techniques, this small studio shows fine command of space, light and materiality.
Re-working and re-evaluating traditional building techniques are not usually associated with contemporary architecture in the United States. The jury did not commend this studio building only because it draws from traditions of building in Arizona, but because it clearly commands control of space and light and materiality in a way appropriate for its latitude and climate. Here is a mediterranean type moved to south-west North America, with an impassive exterior and the whole life of the affair turned inward.
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