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PLANAR ELEMENTS

Fallingwater (Kaufmann House),
near Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania ,1936–37,
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Reinforced concrete slabs express
the horizontality of the floor and roof
planes as they cantilever outward from
a central vertical core.

The overall form of a building can be endowed with a distinctly planar
quality by carefully introducing openings that expose the edges of
vertical and horizontal planes. These planes can be further differentiated
and accentuated by changes in color, texture, or material.

Schröder House, Utrecht, 1924–25, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld.
Asymmetrical compositions of simple rectangular forms and primary
colors characterized the de Stijl school of art and architecture.

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