It is sometimes difficult to have a modernist house really integrate with its surroundings.
This is especially so if the house is set in an area listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as is the case with the Mohle Drive Residence, situated in Central Austin.
In 1950, the December issue of the magazine Architectural Forum featured a โBuilderโs House of the Yearโ. It was designed by the architect A. Quincy Jones.
The Olnick Spanu House resides in an environment of conspicuous calm. Completed in 2008 by the architect Alberto Cambo Baeza, its principal view offers a panoramic scene of the Hudson River snaking its way through the New York countryside. Yet when viewed from the lake that it overlooks, the house is barely perceptible amongst the trees. It is a brief anomaly on a hill covered in forest, a delicate beauty spot.
