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The home is an extravagant white multilevel structure which can be classified as Modern architecture. The single-family home was designed by Paul Rudolph for Sid and Anne Bass in 1966. Sid Bass was a billionaire who made his fortune in the oil business. Sid Bass commissioned the home while he was a young man. The grounds included a swimming pool and a courtyard for vehicles. The entrance is found at the uppermost level of the home. The driveway extends out of the east portion of the home and leads to the entrance. Above the entrance there is the dramatic feature of a horizontal cantilevered overhang. The architect, Paul Rudolph, thought that the Bass house was the best home he had designed.
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The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation
- a non-profit organization representing the Paul Rudolph estate, dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending Paul Rudolph's legacy with an online archive of over 12,000 images in addition to written and biographical materials.
The Bass Residence Project Page
from the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation archives
Bass Residence: Paul Rudolph Foundation
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...
classified as Modern architecture
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form ...
and designed by architect Paul Rudolph, a founder of the Sarasota School of Architecture
The Sarasota School of Architecture, sometimes called Sarasota Modern, is a regional style of post-war modern architecture (1941–1966) that emerged on Florida's Central West Coast, in and around the city of Sarasota, Florida. It is characterize ...
, and he designed the home in that style. It was designed for Sid Bass
Sid Richardson Bass (born April 9, 1942) is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist.
Early life
Sid Richardson Bass was born on April 9, 1942. His father, Perry Richardson Bass (died 2006), built an oil fortune with uncle, Sid W. R ...
and Anne Bass. The house features cantilevered horizontal shapes.
History
The home is an extravagant white multilevel structure which can be classified as Modern architecture. The single-family home was designed by Paul Rudolph for Sid and Anne Bass in 1966. Sid Bass was a billionaire who made his fortune in the oil business. Sid Bass commissioned the home while he was a young man. The grounds included a swimming pool and a courtyard for vehicles. The entrance is found at the uppermost level of the home. The driveway extends out of the east portion of the home and leads to the entrance. Above the entrance there is the dramatic feature of a horizontal cantilevered overhang. The architect, Paul Rudolph, thought that the Bass house was the best home he had designed.
Design
The home is built around a steel frame which is covered by glass and aluminum. The design draws from those ofFrank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...
and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd ...
. It reflects a minimalist approach and straight lines. There are no curves in the home. The house features cantilevered horizontal shapes overlapping each other surrounding a courtyard. Inside there are four floors which have 12 level changes and there are 14 separate ceiling heights. It is said to resemble Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States. It is built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill R ...
design. The building's design constructs an illusion of levitating horizontal planes: vertical planes are disguised by the cantilevered planes.
The landscape was designed by landscape architect Robert Zion. There were a total of 8 acres in the estate for which Zion was the original designer. From 1981 to 1982 another landscape architect Russell Page
Montague Russell Page (1 November 1906 – 4 January 1985) was a British gardener, garden designer and landscape architect. He worked in the UK, western Europe and the United States of America.
Biography
Montague Russell Page was born in Lin ...
worked on a redesign of the estate's grounds. He stated "...the structure needs the tranquillity of an all green base." According to his plans, the grounds had few flowers, and one rose garden. The grounds also include a reflecting pool with a nude sculpture.
Plans
References
External links
The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation
- a non-profit organization representing the Paul Rudolph estate, dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending Paul Rudolph's legacy with an online archive of over 12,000 images in addition to written and biographical materials.
The Bass Residence Project Page
from the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation archives
Bass Residence: Paul Rudolph Foundation
Further reading
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