What a courtyard does in a traditional Chinese house is really it connects all the rooms. Maya Lin is a Chinese-American building designer and artist.
VOA: special.2010.03.03
In the looking glass world of current U.S. foreign policy, the received wisdom is that Iran might have bombs tomorrow, and was working toward them yesterday--but in the eternal sunshine of the present moment, it is never quite clear to the White House that Iran is actually buildingthe bomb.
Across the garden from thehouseis a small building, a casino, on a man-made knoll, which gives the illusion of a hilly topography while blocking sunlight glaring off the water beyond.