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Frank A. Giovannitti House

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1979–1983, Richard Meier. 118 Woodland Rd., Squirrel Hill
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The variety of architectural experiences a pedestrian might get from an inspection of Woodland Road is nowhere more pronounced than in the two postmodern residences standing at numbers 118 and 118-A (AL113). Richard Meier's Giovannitti House stands directly next to the roadway, with the Abrams House right behind. Meier's much-acclaimed design is, at first glance, a barely concealed reshuffling of his Smith House at Darien, Connecticut, of a dozen years before. Though keeping the Smith House's language of intersecting planes, solids, and voids, the Giovannitti three-story, neo-Corbusian white cube takes on extraordinary vividness as it tucks itself into the hillside. This affords privacy and a garden setting to the residents within the house, and a reconsideration of the relationship between man and nature to the streetside viewer.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
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Timeline

  • 1979

    Built

What's Nearby

Betty and Irving Abrams House
Cecelia and Robert Frank House
Jerome and Joan Apt House
Homewood Cemetery
Calvary Episcopal Church

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "Frank A. Giovannitti House", [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-AL112.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 116-117.

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