{"id":118394,"date":"2018-05-01T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/photographer-ben-rahn-explores-the-resilience-of-triangular-houses\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:57:21","slug":"photographer-ben-rahn-explores-the-resilience-of-triangular-houses","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/photographer-ben-rahn-explores-the-resilience-of-triangular-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Ben Rahn Explores the Resilience of Triangular Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Bear, California, 1963. Photography by Ben Rahn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born of a neolithic search for shelter, the triangular building was utilized as storehouse, stable, and shrine. Mostly forgotten by the early 20th century, enough precedents survived to trace the lineage of a revival. Finding new use as a base for recreation, the A-frame became one of the most recognizable (and malleable) building forms of the 1950s\u201370s, typifying an era of optimism, abundance, and play.<\/p>\n

By the 2000s, there was a growing interest in purchasing surviving postwar A-frames as they were swept up in a current of rising appreciation for midcentury modernism.<\/p>\n

From its earliest history, the A-frame accommodated great variety. To those looking closely, postwar designs drew together multiple interpretations within their angled walls, while at the same time evoking both the unpretentiousness of a vernacular hut and the studied purity of modernism. The inherent restrictions of the form present an alluring challenge within an appealingly clean arrangement of line and plane.<\/p>\n

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Amagansett, New York, 1958. Photography by Ben Rahn. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. Site: <\/strong>Amagansett, New York, 1958<\/p>\n

Standout: <\/strong>One of the Atlantic Ocean\u2013fronting houses architect Andrew Geller<\/a> designed here in the 1950s and \u201960s, the entire structure, sans insulation or heat, is preserved intact by the original owners\u2019 children.<\/p>\n

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Sag Harbor, New York, 1965. Photography by Ben Rahn. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2. Site: <\/strong>Sag Harbor, New York, 1965<\/p>\n

Standout:<\/strong> Originally built from a kit into a hillside, a seasonal clapboard getaway was stripped to its Douglas fir structure and clad with a combination of yellow cedar roof shakes and red cedar trim to become a year-round residence.<\/p>\n

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Seattle, Washington, 1968. Photography by Ben Rahn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

3. Site:<\/strong> Seattle, Washington, 1968<\/p>\n

Standout:<\/strong> On the end of a pier in Portage Bay, a floating, converted music studio features a dozen 4-foot-square skylights above its cedar siding.<\/p>\n

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Long Island, New York, 1972. Photography by Ben Rahn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

4. Site:<\/strong> Long Island, New York, 1972<\/p>\n

Standout:<\/strong> A 1,500-square-foot house is surrounded by a half-acre of woods, ensuring total privacy despite its floor-to-ceiling glazing.<\/p>\n

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Mill Valley, California, 1953. Photography by Ben Rahn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

5. Site:<\/strong> Mill Valley, California, 1953<\/p>\n

Standout:<\/strong> Originally built by Wally Reemelin, an industrial designer at the University of California, Berkeley, for San Francisco Chronicle <\/em>architecture writer Ken Pratt, the 1,200-square-foot house was renovated by architect Michael Sands shortly after its 2011 purchase.<\/p>\n

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Fire Island Pines, New York, 1965. Photography by Ben Rahn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

6. Site:<\/strong> Fire Island Pines, New York, 1965<\/p>\n

Standout:<\/strong> The retired couple that has owned this dune-side home for nearly 40 years cleared the surrounding scrub growth and poison ivy, hauled topsoil in, and planted indigenous pines, sassafras, and pepperidge trees along with non-native Japanese maples and blue spruces.<\/p>\n

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Whistler, British Columbia, 2016. Photography by Ben Rahn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

7. Site:<\/strong> Whistler, British Columbia, 2016<\/p>\n

Standout:<\/strong> Scott & Scott Architects<\/a>\u2019 contemporary take on the classic weekend cabin for a snowboarding Vancouver family features a structure of locally sourced materials that prevents snow accumulation.<\/p>\n

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Big Bear, California, 1963. Photography by Ben Rahn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

8. Site:<\/strong> Big Bear, California, 1963<\/p>\n

Standout:<\/strong> Removing the second story of a 2,000-square-foot house during its 2015 renovation created the 28-foot-high ceiling from which an Isamu Noguchi pendant fixture hangs on a pulley system.<\/p>\n

Images and edited text from <\/em>The Modern A-Frame<\/a>, a 248-page volume, photographed by Ben Rahn<\/a> and with an introduction by architectural historian Chad Randl<\/a>, appear courtesy of Gibbs Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographer Ben Rahn explores the resilience of triangular houses in The Modern A-Frame<\/em>. <\/span>From its earliest history, the A-frame accommodated great variety. 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