Turnberry
Jon McDonald
succumbing to its later austerity. One imagines that
Walter Gropius, or, more likely, Johannes Itten, would
find in this house a home. Although early on Gropius
was influenced by Expressionism, he and his circle came
to perfect an almost ascetic modernism, an industrial
modernism. One imagines Gropius embracing Imber's
work in the Jennett House, embracing its warmth,
diverse building materials and plainness of outline, a
tacit acknowledgment that his colleague Itten (frequently
attired in a Buddhist monk's robe) might have been the
more aesthetically enlightened.
The Walker House, at a relatively modest 4,300 square
feet, "was inspired by the simple massing and details of
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