Congratulations on your article about University Grove [Sweet Spot, October]. Your large photo of the building with colorful panels is a two-story library addition to a fifties Close house now owned by professors Helen Foster and Fred Cooper. The firm’s “Wolfe House” next door (now owned by Dudley Riggs and his wife) featured panels with wood battens. For the library addition, the current “Close Associates” chose to cover the panel joints with aluminum cover strips. The owners arranged the strips according to LeCorbusier’s “Modulor.” The colors are the owners’ choices from a Josef Albers palette. This lively newcomer respects the past while celebrating the spirit of the Grove your article chronicles.
Gar Hargens
President, Close Associates Inc., Minneapolis
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