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The house on Farish Street: not only but also, either and both

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2004

Edward R. Ford
Edward R. Ford
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117 Fourth Street NE, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902, USA, [email protected]
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This is a house about decisions that were not made, not because I am indecisive, which I am, but because many of those choices that architects consider to be critical in design are to me either unnecessary or impossible: the choice between the detail of traditional architecture and the non-detail of minimalism, between a frame building and a wall building, between a free plan and a cellular plan, between a tight fit and a loose fit with function. These were all decisions in which I chose not one alternative but both. I did not believe the conventional wisdom that to be modern was to be minimal, scaleless, generalized and reductive or that to be representational, to make references to history, or to be responsive to scale was to be traditional.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 3-4 , September 2003 , pp. 208 - 224
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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