Thne architect did not want a “dry, white-box gallery,” says Mr. Peterson, but in its general outline, the skeleton of the suite harmonizes with the framework of the modernist mid-rise uilding it’s in, which Mr. Peterson also designed. The wrapper is a tough, plain, well-tailored structure arrayed on three sides of a courtyard. Its formal inspiration comes from European cities, where the architect learned well how to create liveable multiunit dwellings in tight urban places. Like the container, Dr. Montague’s roughly 2,000-square-foot apartment is composed of rectangular volumes that are in no way formally unusual or eccentric.Ben Rahn/A-Frame