Architecture

While Glowing Lantern initially appears to draw from "Mid-Century Modern," or "International Style," the detailing of the "Arts and Crafts" movement, as well as certain "Modern" and "Constructivist" aesthetics, it's exact architectural style is difficult to pin down.  And while Dennis McGuire often notes the early influence of Frank Lloyd Wright in his work, the house moves beyond Wright.  McGuire's connection from the inside to outside, corner to corner glass windows, use of (similar to) Cherokee Red tones on the exterior, and robust use of wood trim do certainly pay homage to Frank Lloyd Wright.  But McGuire goes a step further in Glowing Lantern by his use of trapezoidal massive glass windows, a contemporary open floor plan with huge room volumes, and a nearly 500 square foot cantilevered deck which doubles as a car port.  Having said that, maybe's it best left to have Dennis explain his "style..."

From Dennis:

"I haven't thought at all about style since I was at University. I like what they say in Bali: "We have no art, we just do the best we can." I have no style, I just do the best I can. Or put another way: I work with the possibilities of a site. How much Nature is there on and beyond the site that I can bring into the house? I work with the possibilities of my Clients' program. To what degree, considering layers of privacy, can I open that program up, so in the finished house one always has a sense of what is going on beyond the space one is in at the time. In other words, I work by deduction, using what our times have made available and what the powers that be and my Clients' budgets will allow, hoping to create environments where even though there are walls and roofs, there is also something of the sense of freedom I felt when I was running through that canyon in West Seattle when I was a 5 and 6 year old boy, when everything seemed possible. And in line with that, I'm sure that I've told you that I have spent my adult life designing and building the kind of houses I would have been happy to have grown up in....."