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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 [...]

Haus Trub is designed by Agps Architecture (Marc Angehl, Sarah Graham, Manuel Scholl, Reto Henninger, Hanspeter Oester). The design of Haus Trub in Horgen, Switzerland took inspiration from conceptual artist Gordon Matta Clark who enlisted remnants from abandoned buildings. In his method of art making, Matta Clark sought out a culinary analogy. He [...]

Three structural elements, each different in form and consisting of copper, wood and stone, have been fitted together to make up a two-storey residential house complete with swimming pool, spacious living room and an accessible roof.
The architect’s main concern was to create a house, which reveals little of its interior yet remains open to its [...]

Exceptionally versatile, weehouses (St. Paul, MN, USA) offers an efficient and low cost alternative to traditional prefabricated homes. Factory assembled, their short fabrication time eliminated high construction costs associated with custom building Because they are intended for any climate, they are not only built from durable materials, but sustainable ones as well. Clients can modify [...]

Erich Gutmorgeth’s speciality is difficult locations. The architect advises his client to find a site that nobody else wants to obtain, because these plots are mostly available at a low price. Then, the saved money is meant to improve the building A detached home near Innsbruck shows the result, which can be achieved with [...]

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 [...]

In 1946, Mies van der Rohe designed a weekend retreat for Dr. Edith Farnsworth in Plano, Illinois, near Chicago. A number of architects including Richard Neutra and Buckminster Fuller had grappled with the practical problems of using metal-framed structural systems for domestic design but no one idealized the concept to the degree Mies did in [...]