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House in the Hills
We spent this past weekend at the beautiful weekend home of the Woo family, a masterwork of modernist architecture sequestered high in the rolling Vermont hills. Kyu Sung Woo, the paterfamilias, designed it himself, and his limpid vision and great attention to detail show everywhere. (The project may be familiar; it was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal.) The main house is comprised of a pair of light-filled, two-story bar structures, hinged at the middle. The volumes and geometries are asymmetric but have a natural sense of harmony to them. Horizontal and vertical bands in a variety of materials (blond-wood floors, green clapboard siding panels, corrugated metal) give interiors and exteriors visual energy and direct the eye into the landscape. It's all controlled and executed with immense care and polish.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Lamster is a writer on the arts and culture. He is Associate American Editor of The Architectural Review, and is currently at work on his third book, a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson. Follow: @marklamster.More Bio >>
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BOOKS BY Mark Lamster
Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's GamePublicAffairs, 2006
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens Nan A. Talese, 2009
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