Eric Owen Moss on losing the 708 House: 'It raised the issue of the instability of formal definitions'
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The recent total loss of Eric Owen Moss' 708 House design from 1982 in thePacific Palisades Fire has been documented by the Los Angeles Conservancy and its current owner Ed Massey, who toldTheHollywoodReporter, "It was serene and beautiful all in one."Image courtesy Eric Owen Moss ArchitectsImage courtesy Eric Owen Moss ArchitectsMoss shared the following words with Archinect in response to the devastating loss:How the recent Palisades fire affects the story of the 708 house story isnt clear to me.Possibly the fire itself, for all its devastation, ratifies a quality in the building its temporality?Unclear that I can recapture the essence of going forward back when it was designed, while reflecting backward on its recent burning.The 708 house was a series of tentative conceptual gestures, a series of space/form/shape and surface experiments, a kind of illiteracy looking for a language.I think I can say Im still looking, so the 708 probably says that the road remain...
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