Robert Venturi- Mother's House

Photograph of the exterior showing the relationship between the building and its context. This will be helpful when considering the massing (enclosure) Parti diagram:

Notes for Geometry Parti diagrams:

'The plan as a whole reflects the symmetrical consistency of the outside; outside, the perforations in the elevations reflect the circumstantial distortions within. Concerning the inside, the plan is originally symmetrical with a central vertical core from which radiate two almost symmetrical diagonal walls that separate two end spaces in front from a major central space in back. This almost Palladian rigidity and symmetry is distorted, however, to accommodate to the particular needs of the spaces: the kitchen on the right, for instance, varies from the bedroom on the left.'

From Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi, © 1966