How could the court intermediate? The intention of this paper is to make a thematic explication of both the internal system of the form of the ho use and the connection between ho use and nature. The analysis of the form of the Stern House will be in two parts : part 1 illustrates the mo di fie at ion sofformoverthe fourversions. Part 2 analyzes the mean in g in the pro cess of form mo dification; the form of the third version incorporates the meaning of both the first and second versions. Th e twof o Id meaning of the court of the Stern Ho us e is analy zed through three diagrams deriv ed from Kahn's sketches.