Happy Thanksgiving

Vegetarians and a cat, what could be funnier?

Cats look into and comment on everything by right, like a superior officer. This year Our Cat reviews our Thanksgiving meal, before finding something more to his liking.

Happy Thanksgiving to my US readers.

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RM Schindler’s Rose Harris House, 1942, Analysis, part 3 of 5


Some interesting things

Siting

The site is very dramatic, a steeply sloping granite cone with the top scraped off  (Figure 1). The flat usable area is given over to the patio. To maximize the patio, the house is moved entirely on to the slope and accesses the patio by a short bridge(Fig 2). The house, in Schindler’s words, “balances above the hill”.1

The arrangement on the site seems perfectly logical. The patio is where it is because of the existing topography. The house is on the slope, adjacent to the patio and close to the street for a shorter walk. The garage is located below the living level, down at the street level.A ramp connects the garage level to the patio, gracefully curving up the rounded hill and tying the building to the site. The curve of the hill is repeated in the edge of the patio and the fireplace opening.

RM Schindler’s Rose Harris House, 1942, History, part 2 of 5

Models, movies and stories

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Steve Schuh and his Schindler facebook page for pointing me towards the history of ownership of the Harris lot.

Thanks to the Anonymous Architect for pointing me towards Fred Fudacz, the owner of the Harris lot.

Thanks to Fred Fudacz for his history with the Harris lot, and for pointing me towards Jo Sadalla.

Extra special thanks to Jo Sadalla for sharing her memories of life at the Harris house.

Harris House history

I have been able to assemble much of the history of the Harris house since my first article.