MILLER/ANDERSON COMPOUND

The client wanted “a clean, unadorned adobe cluster of buildings appearing to be built on top of an existing site, now in ruin…that might resemble a Greek hillside village from a distance.”  The interior was to be elegant, unadorned, and with a tone that is “tranquil, Zen-like and quiet,” with an orderly and un-embellished palette to offset the furniture.

In determining the overall character of the exterior we attempted to bridge the gap between early vernacular architecture and modernism – the expression of two views of the world working together as one. The first, that man is part of nature and is of the earth (much like the Anasazi view) and second, that man is separate from nature… "and shall have dominion over it".

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