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+ Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:39:55 +0530
The Architect, His Client, Her Husband and a House Named Turbulence
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: May 21, 2006
The architect Steven Holl says he called it Turbulence House because the wind hollers across the mesa. He also had in mind the apocryphal tale of Heisenberg on his deathbed, asking God: Why relativity? And why turbulence? God, Heisenberg supposedly guessed, would be able to answer only the first.
Anyway, the name suits — too well. Turbulence House, which Holl designed, is like the story about Gaudí, the Catalan architect. A certain Doña Comes i Abril, a tenant in his Casa Mila, called the great man to say she couldn't fit her Erard piano into the apartment's salon, whose walls undulated like a cave's. Gaudí came over, looked around, scratched his beard. "Take up the violin," he advised.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/magazine/21turbulence.html
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By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: May 21, 2006
The architect Steven Holl says he called it Turbulence House because the wind hollers across the mesa. He also had in mind the apocryphal tale of Heisenberg on his deathbed, asking God: Why relativity? And why turbulence? God, Heisenberg supposedly guessed, would be able to answer only the first.
Anyway, the name suits — too well. Turbulence House, which Holl designed, is like the story about Gaudí, the Catalan architect. A certain Doña Comes i Abril, a tenant in his Casa Mila, called the great man to say she couldn't fit her Erard piano into the apartment's salon, whose walls undulated like a cave's. Gaudí came over, looked around, scratched his beard. "Take up the violin," he advised.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/magazine/21turbulence.html
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