Frank Gehry- Schnabel House case study

Lead-coated copper sheathes the central cruciform structure housing the living and dining rooms, library, kitchen, family room, and two bedrooms. The garage, topped by stucco-walled staff quarters, is at the front of the site. The upper garden includes a guest apartment, a lap pool, and an office/bedroom crowned with a copper sphere. The master bedroom pavilion sits on the edge of a shallow lake at the bottom of the two-level garden. When you say the word ‘deconstruction’ and you look at this house, you think the term fits. But it is just an opportunistic interpretation, because it was never done intentionally. The Schnabel House relates to Romanesque churches. From the outside it looks California vernacular.

Reference-
William J. R. Curtis Modern Architecture Since 1900
Chapter 35, Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature: page 663