Collision House is a 1981 work by artist and architect Vito Acconci which explicitly combines two of his main interests and activities. The departing … [Read more...]
Andrea Grützner, Erbgericht/Guesthouse (2014)
Andrea Grützner (1984) is a photographer living and working in Berlin. In the series Erbgericht, the artist depicts a traditional village guesthouse … [Read more...]
Archetypes and Free Plan: Orinda House by Charles W. Moore
Orinda House, also known as "Moore House" is located in a valley behind San Francisco, was designed by architect Charles W. Moore for himself and … [Read more...]
Alison and Peter Smithsons’ Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the “Solar pavilion”), 1959-1962
The Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the Solar pavilion) was Alison and Peter Smithsons’ weekend home in Wiltshire in the countryside in South-West … [Read more...]
Not Vital’s Houses for Doing One Thing
Not Vital (1948 -) is a contemporary Swiss artist who works since the Seventies with several media. From paintings to sculpture, he currently explores … [Read more...]
The Blue House by Herzog & de Meuron (1979-80), and an Interview by Stanislaus Von Moos
A peculiar contextual approach is established by an early project by Swiss office Herzog & de Meuron in Oberwil, Switzerland, a small town near … [Read more...]
Materializing Abstract Space: Project E-2, a House by Hiromi Fujii (1968-71)
Project E-2 (1968-1971) by Hiromi Fujii is an example of the Japanese architect's research on "neutral" architecture, one liberated from any burden of … [Read more...]
The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma, 1969
The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma was built in Osaka in 1969, a few years after the completion of the Tower House in Tokyo. The principles behind … [Read more...]
The Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma (1966)
Built in Tokyo in 1966, the Tower house by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma is developed around a staircase which distributes its six levels. The … [Read more...]
John Hejduk’s Diamond House A (1963-1967)
In 1962 architect and educator John Hejduk (1929-2000) started a six-year investigation on the architectural implications of the "diamond … [Read more...]
A “Palladian” Villa in Sweden: The Norrköping House by Sverre Fehn (1963-64)
The Norrköping Villa was designed by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn in 1963-64 as a model architecture for an ideal family of four. The 150 m2 house … [Read more...]
A Prototypal House at the Bauhaus: The “Haus am Horn” by Georg Muche (1923)
The "Haus am Horn" is an experimental building erected and furnished as a part of the Weimar Bauhaus exhibition in the early summer of 1923 which had … [Read more...]
An Encounter with “Naked Space”: The Tanikawa House by Kazuo Shinohara
The second house Kazuo Shinohara designed for Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, lies in the mountains in Nagano prefecture. Built in 1974, this … [Read more...]
A Glimpse of Post-Metabolism: Two Houses by Toyokazu Watanabe
Suguiyama House and Nakano House (Standard House 001) are two residential projects designed by Toyokazu Watanabe (b. 1938) between 1979 and the … [Read more...]
Inhabiting a Three-Dimensional Grid: The “Railway Sleeper House” by Shin Takasuga
In 1970, Japanese architect Shin Takasuga designed a house in the middle of the forest on the Pacific Ocean's island of Miyake. Students of the New … [Read more...]
Travel Notes, Ettore Sottsass, Jr. (in: Terrazzo n°1, 1988)
This short, poetic article was originally published in the legendary magazine Terrazzo edited by Barbara Radice, in the very first number in … [Read more...]
The House Michael and Patty Hopkins Built for Themselves in 1976
Built in Hampstead, north London, in 1976, the Hopkins' House is the first project by Michael and Patty Hopkins' Architectural Practice and it is a … [Read more...]
House As a Manifestation of the Self: Jean-Pierre Raynaud’s “Maison” (1969-1993)
White ceramic tiles with black joints were French sculptor Jean-Pierre Raynaud's signature for most of his artistic production. In 1969, the artist … [Read more...]
Bolles + Wilson’s Suzuki House (Tokyo, 1990-93)
The house the Australian architecture duo Bolles + Wilson designed and built between 1990 and 1993 for Mr. Suzuki in Tokyo is a playful unicum, yet a … [Read more...]
Minimum Living Space as Seen by Ana Frois
Ana Frois is a Portuguese architect and self-taught illustrator. Her drawings place together archetypal architectures with natural elements and small … [Read more...]
“House Without Qualities” by O. M. Ungers (1995)
Haus III or the "House Without qualities" (Haus ohne Eigenschaften) is a late work by German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers which the architect … [Read more...]
Grid, No Corridors, No Open Floor: Casa Mora by Ábalos y Herreros
Casa Mora is an unbuilt project by Iñaki Ábalos y Juan Herreros, two Spanish architects who worked together from 1985 until 2008. (Cf another post … [Read more...]
“If You Get The Scale Right, Space Stops Being Space to Become Mind” Xavier Corberó
Spanish artist Xavier Corberó spent about forty years designing and building his own house, an intricate maze at the outskirts of Barcelona in the … [Read more...]
Order and Failure: Wittgenstein’s Haus on Kundmangasse
In November 1925, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, sister of the Austrian philosopher, commissioned Austrian architect Paul Engelmann to design a … [Read more...]
