which surround it and, indeed, dominate the atmosphere
of the interior as well as the grounds.
The house, like Johnson's, is oblong, and the architects
have created powerful visual interest in the elevations
by alternating transparency with opacity, openings and
closure, in geometrical arrangements that are fresh
and exciting. At the back, the house is painted black,
a color appropriate to the shadowy trees that envelop
the house. It is almost camouflage, yet the house
stands out, a structure striking in the landscape. It is
not a dwelling intended to blend into the landscape (one
thinks, in contrast, of another modernist icon, Frank Lloyd
Wright's Falling Water), but to stand in bold, harmonious
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