Author(s): Daniel S. Friedman
Charles and Ray Eames have strongly influenced my architectural development, in two ways.First of all, in my approach to life and my profession: their house in the Pacific Palisades is what can be called the flag of “the liberation movement”—liberation from the slavery of rhetoric and style in architecture. A soft, almost innocent way to violate the sacred canons.Then comes the poetic aspect: the lightness of the spaces, conceived either in a physical or metaphysical way; their immateriality; the transparency of their multiple planes; their contact with nature; the textures of the materials from which they were created; their frugality and complexity—all this made with the nonchalance of great people, of those who know how to humbly accept the desanctifying idea of “temporariness” in architecture.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2019.54
Volume Editors
Richard Blythe & Johan De Walsche
ISBN
978-1-944214-23-4