An Integral Subject
Domestic space comes with certain assumptions about the activities it contains: eating and drinking, sleeping and working. Architecture transforms these activities, making them grand or efficient, functional and neutral or specific, referential, purposeful ? usually in the broadest sense for a typical life. Mathematician and violinist Jim Stewart, in commissioning Integral House, and Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, in designing it, embraced the specificity of his own unique life and livelihood, programming the house around a concert hall that grew larger with each iteration of the design. Joseph Clement’s documentary film “Integral Man” attempts to capture something of the intimacy that comes with that kind of design specificity between the house and Stewart as its patron. The film is, above all, a legacy project of the highest order: Stewart, who created entire communities around his interests was diagnosed with terminal cancer part-way through filming and didn’t live to see the final cut. His textbooks have provided a generation of students with their grounding in calculus, and his private concerts at Integral House were opportunities for musicians and audiences to come together in ways that aren’t possible in a thousand-seat hall. But the film, in capturing the essence of the house in the last months of Stewart’s remarkable life, now contains the moment in which the connection between that life and the architecture that held it dissolves.
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