A Residence for Mr. & Mrs W.W. Kerr, Melbourne, Florida. Section details. Blueprint

Project: Kerr Residence, Melbourne Beach, FL, 1950-1951 (with Ralph Twitchell)

Image courtesy of Lawrence Maxwell of Spacecoast Architects, P.A., Indialantic, FL.

A Residence for Mr. & Mrs W.W. Kerr, Melbourne, Florida. Section details. Blueprint

Type of Work:

Digital slide

Year:

1950

State/Country:

FLORIDA

Keywords:

Kerr Residence, Melbourne Beach, FL, 1950-1951 (with Ralph Twitchell), Rudolph, Paul Marvin, 1918-1997

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“We must develop some kind of consistent theory for relating one building to another and to the environment. The Ecole des Beaux Arts did have such a theory. I’m not proposing that we bring it back, but in the nineteenth century when the Ecole des Beaux Arts was in full swing, they did have a comprehensible theory in regard to the relationship of one building to another—as did earlier periods of architecture. The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair has been damned for a great many years, but it is time we reassessed it. It was a comprehensible whole, not a collection of individual buildings. We may not like the individual buildings, but they read as a group. The spaces between them were well thought-out; some buildings served as anchors and dominated less important ones by their size, placement, proportions and relationship to the ground, the sky and their neighbors.” Rudolph, Paul Marvin, 1918-1997. "The Form of the City." Canadian Architect 4 (March 1959): 49-67.

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A Residence for Mr. & Mrs W.W. Kerr, Melbourne, Florida. Section details. Blueprint

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