Language development

14. Fill in the gaps with the words below:

a) inserted b) refuge

c) elaborate d) low-key

e) ingrained f) watchwords

g) a scar h) in the interim

i) in common j) conservation

k) feel l) framing members

m) devastated n) buttresses

1. One thing the houses have ____ is relevance to the theory of refuge and prospect, developed by the British geographer Jay Appleton.

2. The house is a weathered cedar object _____ into the landscape.

3. At the same level, a small parlor with a large hearth is a ______ with view.

4. The clients, a family with small children, wanted the house to seem like a pavilion in the meadow, and that is exactly its_____.

5. The prospect of meadow and water is seen through the south wall’s grid of wood _________, horizontal metal fins, and round concrete columns.

6. The differences between the first, rather rustic house, and the second, more “mechanic” building, reflect how time, tastes, and Olson’s ideas changed _______.

7. Like Olson, the client is a Northwest native with an ______ respect for nature.

8. She told him that she was more interested in a garden than a house, and that the house should be _____, natural, and anything but glitzy.

9. When Olson saw the site he termed it “___” of brown earth in the otherwise verdant landscape.

10. Olson tries to make “private worlds”, using perimeter walls as _______ and creating a quiet interior space, sometimes enclosed and sometimes open.

11. Once the basic scheme was established, Olson and associate Kundig began to _____ on it.

12. Weightlessness and illusion were the_______.

13. The architects were _______to have their favourite devices rejected.

14. But Olson sees the most basic kind of ____as building to last.