Harwell Hamiltion Harris' Mulvihill House is up for sale. I had always wondered about this house. The dramatic siting on the hill, make it look far larger than it actually is.
http://mulvihillresidence.com
Harwell Harris Mulvihill House
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Roderick Grant
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Mulvihill House
Here is a link to some vintage photos by Julius Schulman:
http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/li ... TAIE163326
It looks as though the interior wood was originally stained.
http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/li ... TAIE163326
It looks as though the interior wood was originally stained.
The roof framing.
I think HHH does this a lot: in transverse section a wider central bay flanked by smaller side bays, almost church like.
In this house I wonder how the roof is supported?
There are no collar ties and no columns along the "interior aisles."
So it must be supported on the outside walls.
So what restrains the outward thrust?
Moment resisting plates flitched inside the ridge detail?
Does not look like that.
... and it's hard to tell but the ridge connection seems non-symmetrical.
It seems to follow the line of one of the beams all the way to the opposite side.
...hard to explain this in a thread post.
I think HHH does this a lot: in transverse section a wider central bay flanked by smaller side bays, almost church like.
In this house I wonder how the roof is supported?
There are no collar ties and no columns along the "interior aisles."
So it must be supported on the outside walls.
So what restrains the outward thrust?
Moment resisting plates flitched inside the ridge detail?
Does not look like that.
... and it's hard to tell but the ridge connection seems non-symmetrical.
It seems to follow the line of one of the beams all the way to the opposite side.
...hard to explain this in a thread post.
A strong ridge beam, supported at each end, should be able to reduce or eliminate outward thrust of walls -- even when the support is by way of cantilevered rafters ?
I can't tell if that's what is going on here . . .
"Mounting the stairs from the entry below, an open-shelf bookcase momentarily frustrates the view of the living room with its brick fireplace, a
strategy that Harris intentionally employed to not give everything away at once, to savor the delayed gratification of the extraordinary view. This zig-
zagging of elements to slow the body’s procession is a strategy that Neutra and another mentor, Rudolf Schindler, used. The antithesis of Beaux Arts
axiality, it is a beloved practice in Japanese landscape design, seen in Kyoto’s aristocratic villas of centuries past."
The writer has apparently forgotten, or has never encountered, Frank Lloyd Wright's houses ?
SDR
I can't tell if that's what is going on here . . .
"Mounting the stairs from the entry below, an open-shelf bookcase momentarily frustrates the view of the living room with its brick fireplace, a
strategy that Harris intentionally employed to not give everything away at once, to savor the delayed gratification of the extraordinary view. This zig-
zagging of elements to slow the body’s procession is a strategy that Neutra and another mentor, Rudolf Schindler, used. The antithesis of Beaux Arts
axiality, it is a beloved practice in Japanese landscape design, seen in Kyoto’s aristocratic villas of centuries past."
The writer has apparently forgotten, or has never encountered, Frank Lloyd Wright's houses ?
SDR
The post-war East-coast architects you mention are Harvard-trained rationalists. Wrightians, whatever else you may call them, are not rationalists but romantics. Neutra and Schindler, interestingly, represent the two poles.
Of course, there are crossovers; exceptions should not be employed to disprove a theory. No successful architect could be called "irrational" . . . for instance.
SDR
Of course, there are crossovers; exceptions should not be employed to disprove a theory. No successful architect could be called "irrational" . . . for instance.
SDR
Flush mounted siding in general had the benefit of reading more like a volume surface as opposed to a covering. It may be as close to stucco as you could get in the northwest. Wurster and other Bay Area designers used flush mounted siding either horizontal or vertical. Even Nuetra used it in his Bay Area and Portland Oregon designs.
And, Breuer would use it diagonally, "for bracing purposes and also for visual variety," according to a caption in "Architecture Without Rules, the houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard."
https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/ ... el-breuer/
SDR
https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/ ... el-breuer/
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