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...]
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...]
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...]
“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...]
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...]
“The house sees itself reflected in the office”: Abalos & Herreros’ Housing & City, Barcelona (1988)
Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros established their well known architecture office in Madrid in 1984 and kept working together until they parted ways in … [Read more...]
The Plan is a Society of Rooms*: Goldenberg House by Louis Kahn (1959)
The Goldenberg House is a 1959 unbuilt project by Louis Kahn for an area in Montgomery County near Philadelphia. This work couples previous Kahn's … [Read more...]
“I do not draw plans, facades or sections”: Adolf Loos and the Villa Müller
Villa Müller in Prague was designed by architect Adolf Loos, assisted by architect Karel Lhota, in 1930 for František Müller and his wife, Milada … [Read more...]
