Since containers are all the same size and the stacking of them vertically and juxstaposition would be an interesting composition. The theory of Cubism and the work of Corbusier and rietveld in 1910 were based on the modular system.
Le Corbusier 1923 inspired many architects like Richard Meier (Getty Museum) and Richard Neutra (Kaufmann House)
Villa Savoye in France by LeCorbusier in 1918
Rietveld was an artist of Modernism. His work in 1900 was ahead of his time.
Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach 1923 by Shindler and Dr. Lovell also commissioned another architect for another house in LA
Richard Neutra’s Lovell House in Silverlake
Dr, Kaufmann hired Frank Lloyd Wright for this 1938 masterpiece in Penn. He later hired Richard Neutra to design Trooper’s dream house in Palm Springs.
Trooper’s dream home 1946 Kaufmann house in Palm Spring by Neutra
I met Julius Schulman years ago and he told me the hills were photographed with a much longer exposure to capture the light behind it while the light inside the house was over exposed so he took another photo of the house and spliced the 2 negatives together as one.
The most outstanding modern architecture were an assembly of simply stacked boxes. The purity and their clean line are time honored style that inspired the infinite variations we see today.
