206 BARNETT NEWMAN HOUSE

PROF. BOB WARDEN

We were instructed to design a house based on an artist’s style and processes. I choose Barnett Newman as my artist because of his painting’s false simplicity. Located in Montecito, California, a city that intertwines with Santa Barbara, this house fights mud and landslides with a raised foundation on stilts, a retaining wall, and a terrace garden. Throughout the house, vertical wood panels physically distinguish different spaces without creating a visual barrier. The common spaces lack identity. Circulation flows between the interior and exterior without recognition. The spaces extend into one another, creating dimension and purpose without identity. These are similar attributes Newman discovered within his paintings.

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