Merging the New With the Old

You might enter through a traditional front door into a foyer; the new space is more modern and all glass, so you are pulled all the way into the garden. The way to ruin an old room is to build a new one behind it that cuts off the traditional part from light and space. I don’t like it where the old house has been abandoned, where you live in the added family room and never use the old living room and dining room.

Is modernism gaining a foothold here?

It’s much more desirable and accepted than it was five or 10 years ago. People want contemporary, but they say, “We don’t want cold.” In magazines and newspapers, they now see it can be warm and soaring, light and airy, in so many directions that they embrace it. Modernism has become much more varied and user-friendly.

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