ABSTRACT
The structural expression of steel is really the most emphatic way in which the material can be used. To defy gravity and to suspend a house in space is immediately thrilling. Harry Weese’s holiday home above Lake Michigan, hung from great castellated steel beams which cantilever straight out of the limestone cliff face, takes the breath away. 1 As Richard Neutra demonstrated with the Lovell Health House in 1929, a steep hillside site is well suited to steel. It also has the advantages of view, climate (when compared with building on the valley bottom), protection and privacy. 2 To secure his house, Chris Clarke simply drops the steel canopies over his two doorways. Paul Frischknecht rarely locks his house, but just leaves his large dog sleeping on the entrance bridge.
