REVIEW OF ARCHITECTURE - Triangle Modernist Houses

UNDISTURBEDNature has provided men with beautywhich we are incapable of creating, butare capable of maintaining if we only will.Since the architect's canvas is the worldspread out before him, he must plan carefullybefore he makes a stroke, becausewhen he makes his stroke, down go trees,or up comes a structure, or there goesa road. lt is not like the painter's canvaswhere he can paint back over what hedoesn't like. When the architect or plannermakes his stroke, it is one which is uponwhat nature has taken thousands of yearsto produce.Therefore, it is most important thatthis section be presented in the beginningso that the reader is aware of f irstthings first. lt is an opportunity for pausein our busy world to realize what we haveto work with and to compare later withwhat we are doing to our environment.1. The White Cliffs of Dover, England.2. A mountain scape in the mountainsnear Innsbruck, Austria.3. A striking profile of trees near Burgos,Spain.WATERFRONT ACTIVITYAfter traveling for about a month in steel balls on the beach on the Riviera.Europe, lquickly began to realize that 6. The town of Narboone, France enjoyspractically every city or town that I visited its waterfront activity.was either on the sea, a lake or river. This 7. Marseilles, France has a bustlinghas happened, of course, because water waterfront.has been a mode of transportation fromthe time of man's existence and thesecities grew up from small landings usually.Water has a magnetic force about it thatalso attracts people from land to the seathese two attractions working to--withwards each other, WATERFRONT ACTIVITYresults right at the meeting of land andwater-and in most cases produces someot the best urban ingredients that we experience.The following pictures are a seriesof observations of the activity, form,color, texture, and interest that comesabout. lf controlled by man in a properdirection, we can maintain this interestin a compatible and clean way with natureand still enjoy this hard-to-explainpoint of gathering.4. People enjoying the waterfront activityin Nice, France5. Sailors playing a popular game withARCHtTECTUgg/14