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From an interview with Enrique Norten by Brigitte Shim: Shim: Throughout modern architecture, the house has been a laboratory for invention. It has been a testing ground for architects to explore new ideas using the ordinary program of kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living space. How is this house used to push your architecture? Norten: What I was looking for with this house was probably a return to the main principles of modernism. I was trying to look for the very basics of architecture: a simple structure, simple construction methods, and straightforward spatial conditions that would satisfy the needs of our family. The house was a laboratory where I was looking back to where the tradition of modernity started, and I tried to recapture that.

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Brooke Hodge is Curator of Architecture and Design at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Jorge Silvetti is Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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