Architect Pietro Belluschi Location Gearhart, Oregon Date 1941 Building Type house Construction System wood frame, vertical wood siding Climate temperate Context rural Style Modern Notes Simple and direct expression of wood the material. Images Available on The GBC CD-ROM .
Architecture is more than scuplture or the means of giving pure expression to abstract human ideals.
Our visual world is determined by 'forces' of a practical nature, not only by the unique contribution of true artists. It is easier to make a case for the need for wise technicians and honest craftsmen. It is part of man's nature for survival to wish to understand his condition, to find the means to adjust to it, to find and believe in some kind of order. It is in this context that we must view the artist-innovator. We need him as a spearhead in the search for formal order, even when his forms are tentative or abstract.