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Pittman Dowell Residence

The impressive geometry of Maltzan’s heptagonal house conceals a spiraling succession of complex internal spaces. On the northern edge of LA, a long straight avenue collides with the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. From afar, you glimpse an angled white wall halfway up the slope, and a big stone pine tree above that. The wall is part of a seven-sided house that Michael Maltzan designed for Lari Pittman and his partner Roy Dowell, two artists who formerly lived in the 1952 Richard Neutra house at the foot of the tree. 

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Haus am Weinberg

The location of the Haus am Weinberg affords pastoral views of the stepped terraces of an ancient hillside vineyard on one side and cityscape vistas on the other. The volume and roofline of the Haus am Weinberg react and respond directly to the sloping landscape of the site, where the scales and inclinations of the slopes which sculpture the vineyard setting are reflected in the volumetric appearance of the house. The materialisation of the interior of the house further accentuates the overall atmosphere of light by means of natural oak flooring, natural stone and white clay stucco walls speckled with small fragments of reflective stone. 

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