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'I am a Doctor, not a Bricklayer'
When Mr. Gwathmey designed the house he was on an architectural high after two years on a Fulbright Grant in France, where he faithfully measured the proportions used by Le Corbusier in his buildings. His parents’ house filled an exact 20-by-24-foot footprint, a spinoff of Le Corbusier’s dimensions. No builder in the Hamptons wanted to take the job. With its roof pitched in only one direction and its vertical siding in a land of clapboard, it was simply too radical. Mr. Gwathmey hired a builder from Brooklyn, John Caramagna, who was also just starting out.
Mr. Gwathmey quit his job at a Manhattan architectural firm to spend his days building alongside Mr. Caramagna’s crew. ”It was a great experience,” Mr. Gwathmey once recalled. ”Making a piece of art for your parents — what could be better?”
When it was completed, Mr. Gwathmey showed a set of photographs to Philip Johnson, then the architecture curator at the Museum of Modern Art, over drinks at the Oak Room at the Plaza. ”He saw the pictures and said, ‘This is an important work,’ ” Mr. Gwathmey once said, ”and I felt vindicated.”
Mr. Johnson helped get the house published, and the project became an emblem of sculptural modernism stripped to essentials. The design pilgrims came knocking at the door and were welcomed.
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