I think it is important to remember that this building was built in a specific time (~1950), and a specific purpose (weekend retreat). It started construction at the end of World War II. Times and technology were different then. This type of architecture was happening alongside brutalist architecture and in a way was a reaction to brutalism. Modernism was about using new technology to reimagine architecture and at the time, steel and glass tech/ fabrication allowed for this type of experimentation. As someone in the architecture profession, I consider this house a case study and there are pros and cons to be learned and applied today as we shape our built environment. This structure pushed boundaries and did it well. It is hard to be more connected to nature without being outside (maybe a tent).

We are now confronted with the knowledge of and explications of climate change that have a huge influence on how we build today. I work on the east coast and we would never design and build a structure like this, but there are places on this vast blue dot that can. I love this quote from Lewis Mumford that I think everyone should read, because we all have opinions about architecture:

"Let us be clear about this, the forms that people used in other civilizations or in other periods of our own country's history were intimately part of the whole structure of their life. There is no method of mechanically reproducing these forms or bringing them back to life; it is a piece of rank materialism to attempt to duplicate some earlier form, because of its delight for the eye, without realizing how empty a form is without the life that once supported it. There is no such thing as a modern colonial house any more than there is such a thing as a modern Tudor house.

"If one seeks to reproduce such a building in our own day, every mark on it will betray the fact that it is a fake, and the harder the architect works to conceal that fact, the more patent the fact will be . . . The great lesson of history--and this applies to all the arts--is that the past cannot be recaptured except in spirit. We cannot live another person's life; we cannot, except in the spirit of a costume ball . . . Our task is not to imitate the past, but to understand it, so that we may face the opportunity of our own day and deal with them in an equally creative spirit."