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Ana Frois, Greenhouses (2015-17)

October 21, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Ana Frois is a Portuguese architect and self-taught illustrator. Her drawings place together archetypal architectures with natural elements and small … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: House, illustration

Archetypes and Free Plan: Orinda House by Charles W. Moore

January 29, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: archetype, House, interior/exterior

Alison and Peter Smithsons’ Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the “Solar pavilion”), 1959-1962

January 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: countryside, House, low-cost, Pavilion

Materializing Abstract Space: Project E-2, a House by Hiromi Fujii (1968-71)

September 10, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: abstract, grid, House, Japan

The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma, 1969

August 31, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

The Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma (1966)

July 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

John Hejduk’s Diamond House A (1963-1967)

June 30, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

  In 1962 architect and educator John Hejduk (1929-2000) started a six-year investigation on the architectural implications of the "diamond … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: form of form, formal configuration, hejduk, House

A “Palladian” Villa in Sweden: The Norrköping House by Sverre Fehn (1963-64)

June 18, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 11 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: autonomous, autonomy, form of form, House, simmetry

A Prototypal House at the Bauhaus: The “Haus am Horn” by Georg Muche (1923)

May 31, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude Tagged With: bauhaus, exhibition, House

An Encounter with “Naked Space”: The Tanikawa House by Kazuo Shinohara

April 17, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

The second house Kazuo Shinohara designed for Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, lies in the mountains in Nagano prefecture. Built in 1974, this summer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Interior Landscapes, Territories Tagged With: House, interior landscape, Japan, structure

A Glimpse of Post-Metabolism: Two Houses by Toyokazu Watanabe

March 20, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Suguiyama House and Nakano House (Standard House 001) are two residential projects designed by Toyokazu Watanabe (b. 1938) between 1979 and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

Inhabiting a Three-Dimensional Grid: The “Railway Sleeper House” by Shin Takasuga

March 6, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: construction, House, logs, sleepers

Travel Notes, Ettore Sottsass, Jr. (in: Terrazzo n°1, 1988)

March 1, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

This short, poetic article was originally published in the legendary magazine Terrazzo edited by Barbara Radice, in the very first number in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Territories Tagged With: House, houses, India, sottsass

“House Without Qualities” by O. M. Ungers (1995)

November 10, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: composition, House, proportions

Grid, No Corridors, No Open Floor: Casa Mora by Ábalos y Herreros

October 9, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Dysfunctional Plans, Fields Tagged With: domestic, House, sequence

Order and Failure: Wittgenstein’s Haus on Kundmangasse

April 26, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

In November 1925, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, sister of the Austrian philosopher, commissioned Austrian architect Paul Engelmann to design a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: failure, House, order

Extended Sequence of Flowing Spaces: 33rd Lane (Geoffrey Bawa’s House in Colombo – Sri Lanka) – 1959-1970

March 24, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

Geoffrey Bawa’s house in Colombo (1959 - 1970) is an exercise in horizontal densification. The result of decades-old process of annexation of four … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Territories Tagged With: House, plans

“The house sees itself reflected in the office”: Abalos & Herreros’ Housing & City, Barcelona (1988)

March 22, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: House, lifetime workingtime balance, office

Allan Wexler’s Axonometrics of the House (1979)

January 19, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Some days ago we featured on Socks a set of cray landscape models by US architect, artist and teacher Allan Wexler. Today we focus on a smaller scale, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: drawings, form of form, House, rituals

The Plan is a Society of Rooms*: Goldenberg House by Louis Kahn (1959)

April 8, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: floor plan, form of form, House, Kahn

Loos Villa Müller

“I do not draw plans, facades or sections”: Adolf Loos and the Villa Müller

March 3, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 11 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: form of form, House, Loos, Prague, raumplan

Rooms in the Forest: Jan Szpakowicz’s House (1971)

February 8, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

  The house Jan Szpakowicz designed and built for himself in 1971 deals with the Polish architect's will to inhabit the woods, merging the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: form of form, House, Poland, woods

Adolf Loos, Tristan Tzara House, Paris (1925-1926)

November 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

The house for the Romanian poet and Dadaist Tristan Tzara and his wife, the painter Knitson, was designed and built by the Austrian architect Adolf … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, House, Paris, urban chronicles

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