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The roof plane can visually express how its pattern of
structural members resolves forces and transfers loads
to a system of supports.

Convention Hall for Chicago (Project), 1953, Mies van der Rohe

Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949, Philip Johnson

The roof plane can be the major space-defining element
of a building and visually organize a series of forms and
spaces beneath its sheltering canopy.

Centre Le Corbusier, Zurich, 1963–67, Le Corbusier

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