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Poems of an Indian summer
To throw a shadow on the earth
The Abode of Fancy
The fire of oak logs
The housewarming ceremony
The perverse arrangement of older houses
The pitched roof
I could never live in a house like that
Secreted
Tree, leaf, house, city
20 Minutes in Manhattan
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Homes at Night
You're living in your very last house
A Song by Lo-Fang
Combinations and arrangements
Everything designed has an element of arbitrariness in its form. Loewy described how groups of his designers used to go about designing a new model automobile. Different groups were given different tasks, such as the front and rear of the car, and the conceptual work began, to be cut off at some predetermined time by deadlines that were imposed at the outset. After a time, there were "piles of rough sketches," and Loewy saw the design proceed as follows:
Now the important process of elimination begins. From the roughs, I select the designs that indicate germinal direction. Those that show the greatest promise are studied in detail, and these in turn are used in combination or arrangements with one another. A promising front treatment can be tried in combination with a likely side elevation sketch, etc. From this a new set of designs emerges. These are then sketched in detail. After careful analysis, they boil down to four or five.