Designed with the help of Claude Stoller, a California architect, it serves as a model house for someone in a wheelchair.
Others thought it might be a model house for some real estate scheme to remake urban Detroit in the form of a suburban subdivision.
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In a tour de force Mr. Bergdoll was able to build five full-scale model houses for the show in a lot just west of the museum.
He has built artificial water falls at flower shows, planked over a frogpond on the Boston Common; and has been building model houses for the past 15 years.
Another time, he was building model housing for the staff, and we spent long hours with plans and builders and visited the site to inspect the progress of the work.
It's also wonderful to learn that Hugh Chisholm, the idealistic businessman who had, in the late nineteenth century, founded the Oxford mill in Rumford, built model housing for his workers and envisioned himself constructing a "City in the Wilderness".
Speculators hoping to make a fortune by building a high-rise on the site, the southwest corner of 10th Avenue and 42nd Street, wanted to demolish the tenements, built a century ago as model housing for workers.
That's why Kahn, who has taught design at Stanford University since 1949, was hired in the late 1950's (along with his wife, Lyda, who died in 1990) to decorate model houses for Joseph Eichler, the legendary West Coast developer who brought modern design to affordable housing in the 1950's and 60's and who made Eichler Homes the architecturally enlightened counterpart to Levitt & Sons.
Notable on his long list of achievements was Wedgewood House, The Forum (high-rise NYC apartment buildings), the lobbies of The Criterion and The Bergen Mall theaters, the model houses for Reston, VA (Model Community of the Future) near Washington, DC, and the administrative center for Global Foods.
The model houses, for example, showed the living dwelling in context with the dead – a miniature cosmogram – and the horned warriors (as discussed above) were shaman battling mystical forces.
