At the front and back of a 40-foot-wide lot, the architect placed two buildings, each about 28 feet square. The front has house entry and parents' bed-sitting room upstairs; cooking, dining, and family living at the garden level below. To the rear is a children's house with bedrooms, bath, and sitting room at garden level. But the magic of this house is what happens between buildings. Tall walls of glass connect the halves of the house and create a 40-foot garden court. The obscure glass establishes privacy. A mild climate permits the use of this interior court most of the year. A roofed walkway at each side of the court provides shelter from building to building.
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source: Sunset Books - Sunset Homes 1967
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