TitleProportional System for a House
Architect
Charles A. Platt
(1932 - 2020)
Datec. 1986
MediumColored pencil on vellum tracing paper
DimensionsSheet size: 31 5/8 × 22 1/4 in.
Mat size: 35 3/4 × 26 1/4 in.
SignedSigned on LR: "CAP/P.T."
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, September 19, 2007
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2007.9
Label TextCharles A. Platt attended graduate school at Harvard University and began practicing architecture in 1963, founding his first firm, Smotrich & Platt, in 1965. For more than thirty-five years Platt's current firm, Platt Byard Dovell White, has created innovative designs for both commercial and residential use including the 2002 AIA National Honor Award New 42nd St. Studios. The firm has also completed numerous other commissions as well as many important historic preservation projects, such as the New York Appellate Division Courthouse at Madison Ave. and 24th Street. "Proportional System for a House" is a study drawing for a residence that shows two views of a pergola, flattened arcade and southern courtyard. Unlike a more conventional rendering, this analytical drawing is based on a combination of two predominant but opposing modernist architectural theories: the "plan libre" and the "raumplan." The primary intention of the "plan libre," developed by Le Corbusier, was to do away with partition walls and thereby freeing more interior space, while the "raumplan," as developed by Adolf Loos, was primarily interested in the relationship between the interior spatial structures of a residence.
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