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Situational Domesticity
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The contemporary private home is a complex and fascinating site for exploring the increasingly ambiguous separatrix between the public and private realms, between the social collective and the individual family as well as between members of a distinct family.
Villa Kbww
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In this semi-detached villa on the Wilhelminapark in Utrecht the party wall functioned as a “therapeutic” compromise element during the dealings with the two client families. Both desired a spacious view of the park, optimal benefit from the sunshine, and a good relationship with the garden.
New Suburbanism
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A close look through contemporary home plan magazines reveals a series of unanticipated oddities and curious conditions. A new room has been added to the traditional set of options.
Case Study House
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The house is a primary indicator of social, economic and political conditions beyond the broader context of simply “dwelling.” As a cultural symbol, the house incorporates technological and industrial developments and reflects attitudes toward space, time, and mobility.
Glass House: Bedford, New York
Glass House: Bedford, New York
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This project began when a young family, residing in New York City, decided to leave the city and raise their family in a more bucolic setting. They purchased several plots of land and pieced them together into a contiguous twenty-six-acre plot of rolling wooded hills that culminates at a rocky ridge with sweeping views of a protected nature preserve.
Gilbertbarker Pod
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Living in the country while maintaining a connection to the pulse of modern urban life is more possible now than ever. Internet connectivity, satellite television, and inexpensive air travel have expanded the possibilities of “home.”
Beyond Envisioning: Invention In Realization
Beyond Envisioning: Invention In Realization
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The authoring process is an exercise in ego and conviction, and sound architecture is the product of authors whose vision is clear and abilities of description are capable. But surely there are discrepancies between what one may imagine and what comes to be.
Lexton Maccarthy Residence
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Isolating the hillside house as a building type is very important for architectural discourse. Sloping sites offered California modernists, Wright, Schindler, Neutra, Lautner, and others, the opportunity to invent new forms, transforming the house. Continuing in this tradition the Lexton/MacCarthy site offered wonderful west facing views of Los Angeles and suggested a formal strategy of an abstract geometrical form conceived as a play of positive and negative volumes.