- “A homogeneous whole built for man, to human scale, and balanced in all its parts.”
- “Fascination with opacity and indecipherability let to her focus on the surface of elements, their color, texture, and reflective qualities.”
- Windows address body and panorama simultaneously.
- “Special differences through structural means.”
- “Choice of materials to express degrees of bodily contact.”
- “Inspired by material forms, their embodiment of service to the human body.”
- “Incorporating mobility at the scale of the occupant rather than the room. Gray rendered the subject an active agent in her environment, forcefully shaping the space to receive her, more a participant than a mere occupant.”
- “Devised a plan diagram depicting internal circulation routes in relationship to the suns daily path.”
- “She engaged all of the senses to entrance the occupant’s consciousness of bodily immersion in a sequence of experiences.”
- “Intertwining the visible with what is out of sight.”
Source : The Nonheroic Modernism of Eileen Gray
Research: Mark Cooper
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