Character is Natural By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 Poetic tranquility instead of a more deadly “efficiency,” should be the consequence in the art of Building: concordant, sane, exuberant, and appropriate to use.
Decentralization By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 A new sense of beauty seen in the machine age, characteristic of direct simplicity of expression, is awakening in art to create a new world, or better said, to create the world anew.
Materials By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 Each material may become a happy determinant of style; to use any one material wrongly is to abuse the integrity of the whole design.
Tenuity + Continuity By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 …both support and supported may now-by means of inserted and welded steel strand […] be plaited and united as one physical body: ceilings and walls made one with floors and reinforcing each other by making them continue into one another. This continuity is made possible by the tenuity of steel.
Addendum By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 The building living before us now as an organism (twentieth century) may only be seen by experience within the actual structure.
Space By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 Properly focused upon needs of twentieth century life, new uses of livable space will continually evolve, improved; more exuberant and serene.
Form By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 In general, structure now becomes an affair from the inside outward instead of from the outside inward.
Shelter By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 To qualify this common-sense desire for shelter as most significant feature of architecture is now in organic architecture of greatly increased importance.
Interpretation By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 18, 2014 We know that the interpretation of life is the true function of the architect, because we know that buildings are made for life, to be lived in and to be lived in happily, designed to contribute to that living joy and living beauty.
Kinship of Building to the Ground By meyermayhouseNovember 18, 2014November 21, 2014 In any and every case, the character of the site is the beginning of the building that aspires to architecture.