age" (71-73).
As he was completing work on Sea Ranch, Moore received his first East Coast commission. Paul M. Klotz asked him to design a single-family home for a sloping property in Westerley, Rhode Island, near the Connecticut border along the Pawcatuck River. Moore was delighted with the challenge and by January of 1967 had drawn up a detailed set of first-draft plans.
Moore's enthusiasm for tackling the challenges of designing a unique private home was not yet shared by the design community as a whole, as reflected in the way in which architectural prizes were being awarded. As Magali Sarfatti Larson observes, "In the first years of the period [starting in 1966], few juries were interested in private houses" (194). By 1970, however, important architects were beginning to acknowledge that designing single-family homes might have some usefulness; Robert Venturi wrote, "On one level, this kind of house is insignificant and is not responding to the social crisis. But in a funny kind of way you solve problems by indirect routes, and who can say that the little house for the rich man is not one of them" (107).
Moore began designing his "little house for the rich man" by apply
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