Tuesday, November 4, 2014

10 - The Prairie House - Hillary Kidd








     



     The Prairie House is located in Norman, Oklahoma and was designed by Herb Greene in 1961. The home was created as a sculpture on the Oklahoma prairie and is based on a loosely fish-shaped plan in which the mouth and tail open to become windows. The home has been nicknamed the Prairie Chicken House, though it is more commonly referred to as the Buffalo House. Greene tried to evoke natural forms using delicate timber shingles and low-cost building materials.

   
      Greene envisioned the land, not as a surface to build on, but as a landscape to build within. Cedar boards and shakes are collaged over a wood-sheathed frame surfaced with mineral-coated roll roofing, giving the house complex rhythms, fractures and metaphors of scales and feathers. Inside, the shingles continue to create a complex, layered and feathered interior.



 “My House contains references ranging from primordial creature to futurist object and represents my interest in creating metaphors of age and the passage of time ... Human beings, with our unique ability to remember and anticipate, need to develop an architecture [which] gives direction to an imaginative mingling of past, present and future.” - Greene
 

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