The rubber house was built in 1983 for the famed choreographer, Eugene Loring. He asked us for a design very different—even opposite—from the white, planar house Richard Neutra had designed for him in California, but one that would also be "like living in a work of art."

The ideas were simple: to achieve a level of abstraction where the house could be experienced as pure form, eliminating the visual cues normally associated with a "house"—no distinction between roof and walls, no trim, no frames, nothing added—just pure form, eliminating anything that might come between the house and the surrounding nature.