Crooks House

Karen Vogel Whee­ler, Peter Ar­nell, Ted Bick­ford:

While pri­vacy is ac­com­plis­hed by iso­la­tion in the sur­roun­ding tract hou­ses, the Crooks House de­ri­ves its pri­vacy by trea­ting the for­mal ge­stu­res as frag­ments of a lar­ger or­ga­niza­t­ion, the­r­eby set­ting up a de­pen­dence of ob­ject and land­scape. Ra­ther than a sin­gle cen­ter, a suc­ces­sion of cen­ters is pro­du­ced both in the buil­ding and in the land­scape. These cen­ters are lin­ked and can be un­ders­tood as a spa­tial con­ti­nuum.