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While the impracticalities of life in a glass box rendered the Farnsworth House an unlikely model for the mainstream housing market, the concept fascinated many architects. In 1949 Philip Johnson (b. 1906) began work on his own residence in New Canaan, Connecticut. In some ways, the Farnsworth and Johnson houses studies in contrast. Painted white [...]

Le Corbusier was a prolific writer and an accomplished painter as well as an architect in the history of architecture who produced an imposing and influential body of work. During the decade of the 1920s he executed a series of designs for private villas that crystalized the International Style. When, in 1903, Lutyens declared “In [...]

Heidis, Kiens,Italy
One might think that the architect, Matteo Thun, from Milan is joking with the name of his architecture, a pre-fabricated house. One immediately thinks of the typical clich?s associated with this name: the Alps, barns, farms, and pristine countryside. It is true that Heidis are not high-tech houses, but are completely built of wood, [...]

The sun with its warmth and light is object of desire for every house, says Matteo Thun, the architect of this modular house system. With its transparent glass facade, 0′ sole mio uses the energy of the sun and is not dependent on solar collectors and heat pumps thanks to the orientation to the sun. [...]

b. Karlsruhe, 1766;
d. Karlsruhe, 1826.
Friedrich Weinbrenner was the dominant figure within the German school of Neo-Classicism at the beginning of the c19. After studying mathematics and architecture at the Academy in Vienna, Weinbrenner travelled to Berlin and Italy, returning in 1797 to take up the position of building inspector in Karlsruhe, where his influence became [...]

ABC House is located at Kertajaya Indah Regency Block, Surabaya, Indonesia. ABC House is short for ?A Brother?s Connecting House?, reflecting the client?s brief for the design of two houses for his sons? families on a 600-square-meter site. The structure, with a gross floor area of 500 square meters, consists of two symmetrical houses [...]

b. St Petersburg (Leningrad), 1761;
d. St Petersburg, 1811.
Leading Russian Architect, the classicist of the early 19 century. Son of a minor admiralty official, Zakharov entered the preparatory school of the Academy of Arts in 1767, ultimately graduating from its Architecture School in 1782 with the gold medal. The prize took him to Paris for four [...]