“ From childhood, I was always interested in both art and science. In the fifth grade I was chosen to take part in the “Program for Gifted Children” in Riverside, California. I chose to take a courses in Art and Biology. This combined interest paved the way for a later decision to study architecture. And ultimately, I suppose, to working with the organic forms that were my deepest early interest. My first endeavor was to form TAO Design Group, Inc., a private non-profit organization for the purpose of exploring the potentials of new materials in architecture. This period of research and building has provided a pivotal set of experiences that have influenced me throughout my life. My second was to create TAO/ONO, Inc. a design-build organization that could build what it designed. This operations grew from three partners and three employees to 60 persons in eight years. It was doing major projects in the state of Texas until 1984. In the second part of my career I have devoted myself to teaching. “ Charles L. Harker
TAO Earth House
Habitable Sculpture
This sculptured habitat is intended for humans, and yet is easily compared to a living, growing organism. The materials are at the cutting edge of technology. In contrast, the processes of design and construction are being invented through the act of building. The process of building is at its essence primitive, relating more closely to animal building, the way of the insect than those of modern technological man. Almost all work is done by hand. There are no design documents at the site. All design is spontaneous, in reaction to what exists in the nature of the site, what is already built, and what the designers are visualizing. Within the period of a week, a space may undergo a complete transformation, similar to the metamorphosis of a butterfly. The evolution of individual parts of the house is slow. They pass from concept to design-fabrication by way of the gauntlet of tongue and hand of everyone involved.
Bloomhouse
A Fairy tale house in the woods.
The Bloomhouse won the Award of Merit by the AIA Austin Chapter in 1984. The Following is excerpted from the statement to the AIA Awards Committee:
Emerging from the natural rock outcroppings of a steeply sloping site, the structure is a lyric statement that expands Modernist concepts to include the term “psychological shelter.” Form becomes functional in human–rather than structural–terms as the highly refined lines and shapes combine to create a positive human response in much the same manner that music alters mood. Grounded in no particular period or culture, the forms are imbued with a sense of familiarity through the use of a borrowed “Cultural Mechanism”…the Fairy Tale. Once inside these allusions are replaced by a continuous fluidity that evokes an intuitive oneness with nature.
Tags: ART, organic architecture
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