Faced with designing for a wedge-shaped lot, an unimaginative person would shoehorn a standard rectangular house on it. A slightly imaginative person would fit a wedge-shaped house on it. JFAK Architects, on the other hand, designed a complex assemblage of angles to create a house with "diagonal views," both through the house and out of it, on both the horizontal plane and the vertical axis.

In this Part 5 video of Herman Miller's POV series, John Friedman of JFAK discusses the thinking behind the house and expresses the fun in architecture, describing the project as a puzzle to be solved with creativity and client input. His thinking is infectious and this house is probably the most interesting of the five in the series.

(Be sure to hit the link below the video, where you can click for a chance to win a copy of photographer Julius Shulman's Modernism Rediscovered book.)