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- DANTE
/ TELESCOPE HOUSE__|
_A FUSION of ARCHITECTURE, ASTRONOMY, LITERATURE, PAINTING, SCULPTURE,
and LANDSCAPE
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00 29.81 North Latitude 77 01 39.22 West Longitude
- JEF7REY
HILDNER _THE
ARCHITECT PAINTER_/_1991-1996
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- Geo
Context: The
private
northwest-southeast line
of the house site plan (magenta line) parallels the significant public
northwest-southeast line
of Washington D.C.'s idealized diamond boundaries (magenta line).
- At
a right angle to the magenta line, the corresponding northeast-southwest
line
of the house site plan, which runs parallel to the Dante/Telescope Monolith, parallels
the other significant boundary-line of the D.C. diamond and defines the Dante/Telescope
Monolith's orientation.
- The
north-south line extending from the North-Star Telescope of the
Dante/Telescope
Monolith
passes
midway between the
Lincoln Memorial and
Capitol.
- The
affinity with Theo van Doesburgh's rotated grid painting (inset) reinforces the
importance of de Stijl within the aesthetic and intellectual structure of the
project;
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- Dante/Telescope
House
won the 1995 "Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Architecture" from
the New Jersey State Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
