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ARCHITECITURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house shares with its neighbors the International Style feature of <br /> rectilinear massing, flat roof, horizontal bands of windows, and large areas of <br /> glass. Siting takes advantage of natural landscape features and orients house <br /> toward the sun. The long axis of the house is parallel to the slope; all major <br /> rooms face south. The maximum span of 2-by-10 joists determined the width of <br /> the house and allowed for open-plan living areas. Distinctive features of the <br /> house include the wooden ramp suspended from the house by cables to provide <br /> (see Continuation Sheet) <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> Part of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) planned community of Moon Hill <br /> Road, this house was designed c. 1948 as his own residence by Leonard J. Currie <br /> who worked closely with TAC (see Moon Hill area form) . The house was later <br /> occupied by Konrad E. Bioch who won the Nobel Prize - <br /> 1►', Iq(�� �o✓ Phys►v�ooly' or Medlcio-e-. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Architectural Forum, June 1950, p. 120. <br /> i <br /> L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, February 1950, pp. 38, 111. <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />