Venturi & Rauch, Guild House, Philadelphia, 1960-65
But most important
perhaps, the place works as a back-ground for living that is not coercive — where, for instance, the American occupants
were not forced into a kind of imported architectural enclave for Continental Socialist proletarians of the
twenties that American architects ironically imposed in the fifties
and sixties. I love the photograph of the "ordinary" occupant whose furniture is at home and whose lace curtains could look
OK in our laid-back architecture.