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I toured this dwelling several years ago, shortly after Mr. Brown's tragic death. Terry studied for a time with Bruce Goff, and there are glimpses of Goff's influence in the details of this house. This building was Terry Brown's Taliesin, in that he used it as a laboratory to try out new ideas, methods and techniques.
From an overall perspective, the house brings to mind for me the work of Kendrick Bangs Kellogg.
Seriously, the house appears from the down-slope pic to be a heavily reworked and disguised conventional house with a curved pod addition. There are interesting bits, but there is too much disorder between the bits for the house to read as a composition. Even in his most adventurous designs, Bruce Goff maintained some sense of underlying order or legible relationship of the parts to the whole.
Even though the construction was later, this is reminiscent of many houses designed in the 60s, some by the firm Jersey Devil ... although it appears to be rather more baroque. I would expect mushrooms, banana peels and oregano to be common ingredients in the kitchen cupboard