Selected Bibliography Architecture - Form Space and Order

E L E VATED BASE PLANE Private Courtyard of the Imperial Palace, the Forbidden City, Beijing, 15th century An elevated plane can define a transitional space between the interior of a building and the outdoor environment. Combined with a roof plane, it develops into the semiprivate realm of a porch or veranda. Section of the Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1950, Mies van der Rohe. The Farnsworth House was constructed to rise above the flood plain of the Fox River. This elevated floor plane, together with an overhead roof plane, defines a volume of space that hovers delicately above the surface of its site. 110 / A R C H I TE C TU R E : F O R M , S PA C E , & O R D E R

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