Panel 1: Residential Transformations
As an expression of domestic values, the modernist landscape has a conflicted relationship with the very idea of ground, striving to capture the essence of natural environments without mimicking its expression or materiality. Three iconic postwar, modernist homes in New York, California, and Texas form a foundation for this discussion: the Beck House, an extension of Phillip Johnson’s 1964 project beyond its original limitations toward a more complex set of relationships between building and landscape; Richard Neutra’s Kun 2 (1950), an intimate‐scale solution that solves the site’s erosion issues while creating a garden to complement the clean, planar lines of the house; and Norman Jaffe’s Perlbinder “Record House” (1970) in Sagaponack, Long Island, where the residence, threatened by the ever‐encroaching Atlantic Ocean, was relocated inland to a flat cornfield.
Moderator: Joeb Moore
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