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Hawaii House |
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Completed 1996 "No house should ever be on a hill", wrote Frank Lloyd Wright. "It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and House should live together, each the happier for the other." If ever there were a house that perfectly exemplifies Wright's dictum of organic unity between slope and shelter, between habitat and environment, it is the one that the Los Angeles-based firm Koning Eizenberg designed for a young retired couple who moved to the Big Island of Hawaii from LA. Set on a tip of the North Kahala coast so windswept that the trees grow at an angle, the house seems from every vantage to be part of the surrounding grassy landscape (a former sugar cane field, it is now a dairy pasture). A Little House on a Hill Publication Metropolitan Home May/June 1999 |
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Photographs:
Gray Crawford