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.

14. Think of not less than 5 sentences of your own using the words and word-combinations from the previous exercise.

14. Complete the sentences with the suitable preposition, if necessary.

1. respond … the images

2. affinity … a place

3. to be interesting … their commonalities

4. to burst … the landscape

5. suffused … light

6. refugelike … character

7. to act … a luminaire

8. a demand … simplicity

9. to elaborate … the project

10. to clear … development

11. … the advice of a decorator

12. a respect … nature

13. to make collages … … architectural images

14. to blend … nature

15. to butt … the walls

16. to apply this approach … the site

17. to divide the house … two wings

18. to take … the look of a temple

19. to take us … to our roots

20. to advise … diverse aspects

21. to be responsible …

22. to face … the lake view

14. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:

1. Уважение к природе, забота об окружающей среде и отказ от потребительского отношения к природным ресурсам являются принципами жизни разумного человека.

2. Из окна гостиной открывается потрясающая панорама лугов и лесов у подножия холма.

3. Дом нависает над склоном холма и составляет неотъемлемую часть окружающего пейзажа.

4. Клиент склонялся к строительству простого дома из прямых линий и отклонил проект вычурного бросающегося в глаза особняка.

5. В результате был построен небольшой дом, находящийся в гармонии с природой и как бы притаившийся среди окружающего пейзажа.

6. Изгибающаяся тропинка проходит через основную часть дома и делит дом на два крыла.

7. Крыша была поднята настолько высоко, что, казалось, плыла над стенами.

8. Полностью застекленная сторона дома создавала иллюзию невесомости.

9. Тем временем угас спрос на яркие броские дома и возрос интерес к простому сельскому стилю строительства.

10. Группа архитекторов давала консультации по различным аспектам экологически устойчивого строительства.

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