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In today’s California, midcentury modern houses with their flowering spaces and walls of glass are extremely desirable. It has to do with the environment and spirit of California, which retains a little glitz and a little earth. One of the architectural teams contributing heavily to this style was Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman. This team is famous for many reasons, one of them being their contributions to the design and construction of #21 and #28 of the Art & Architecture’s Case Study houses, including The Roth House (1956). jvHenBuf.rtf
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retains a little glitz and a little earth. One of the architectural teams contributing heavily to this style was Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman. This team is famous for many
reasons, one of them being their contributions to the design and construction of #21 and #28 of the Art & Architectures Case Study houses, including The Roth House (1956).
Michael J. Lewis writes of the architectural movement in Southern California: "What was required was no mere elaboration or incremental development of past
models, but a complete and absolute break. In architecture, this involved the total rejection of historical form. . . ." (Lewis 40).
This specifically applied to Buff and Hensman. The Roth House is not based on a style as much as "timeless aesthetic" and a "love of pure, perpendicular form" (Editor 6;
Liebowitz). For example, the front of the house takes advantage of its location in Southern California, one of the architectural concepts of the area. For example, the Roth House has
an external landscape that includes the Southern California natural landscaping and a series of external barriers such as a short retaining wall made of stone and painted white surrounding the
property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth House, the front side of which
is curved, running perpendicular to the road as if the city paved and maintained street were owned by the lord of the manor.
While this is one aesthetic for which Buff and Hensman were known, the architects were famous for the light wood frame and glass panel architecture applied in both internal
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