For over 30 years, I've had a this Utopian dream: to live in the perfect white house in the middle of an alkali flat isolated somewhere in the American west. The house would hover on piloti, as would the long concrete drive, and during the spring run-off the home would float over the shallow, broad lake. The rest of the time, it would stand above the cracked, salt-crystallized flat. During the summer, the house would remain relatively cool despite its location due to its color and the color of the surrounding landscape--a modern beach house on a metaphorical beach. Beautiful.
It doesn't look like I'll ever have the money to pull off such a dream, and even if I did, most alkali flats in the U.S. are located on B.L.M. land, which is just as well, so everyone can enjoy the isolation, one lonely traveler at a time.
I have never bothered to design the perfect house for my dream site because that house was built between 1928 and 1931 in Poissy, France. It is the brain child of Swiss Architects, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. There is simply no way I could improve upon it, other than move it to the perfect site.
As I doubt this will be last post on this masterpiece in white, I'll keep this short and share a wonderful video to let you experience it for yourself.
Space and light and order.
Those are the things that men need
just as much as they need bread
or a place to sleep.
--Le Corbusier
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