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. PAGE . 文章出处： 书刊名/作者(Title/Author) Richard Meier Smith House, Darien, Connecticut. 1967 House in Old Westbury,Long Island, New York. 1971/Futagawa, Yukio ed. ; Morton, David 出版项 (Publish Info.) Taipei/Hus Book/1983 作品语言(Language) ENG 稽核项(Description) 1 v.p. 图书名/图书号(Series) Global architecture 主题标题 (Subject) Architectural design. 主题标题(Subject) Architecture -- Views. 原文： Smith House, Darien, Connecticut. 1967 House in Old Westbury, Long Island, New York. 1971 Key words: private residences, architectural ideas, circulation paths, bearing wall, framing system, spiral staircase Richard Meier is something of a phenomenon in American architecture. These and other of his many projects would tell much about Meier’s architecture, but his unique and highly personal approach is perhaps best expressed in a growing body of extraordinary, single-family private residences. Because there are few mysteries in the program for a house, it can occupy a unique position in an architects work; it can, in effect, stand testament to his architectural theories and design ideas. But even though this program may be well understood, the form that results, as Meier’s work clearly shows, may be highly intricate and complex. Two of his houses are shown here; they have emerged directly from, and are inextricably bound to, a complicated, highly personal repertoire of architectural ideas. The Smith house in Darien, Connecticut, and the much larger house in Old Westbury, New York, although quite dissimilar in many respects, find some common antecedents in the work and thought of Le Corbusier. This is perhaps most readily seen in the use of a grid system of columns that supports the horizontal planes, and thus liberates the walls of their supportive function and frees them for use only as a means of enclosure. Although bearing walls are used at the entry plane of both houses, and elsewhere in the Smith house, the ensuing clarity brought about by th