The house that broke architecture

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[bagaskara_vi]

Istg my professor will slap the sh t out of me if i designed my studio project like this ✊😭

[Lobgwiny]

Called a 'three bucket house' by the owner due to it's leaks, the house overheated in the summer and was impossible to keep warm in the winter.

[miltaire]

It gives you perfect 24/7 view of the skinwalkers stalking you from the woods

[kavky]

This is the kind of house you see in thriller films where someone gets oofed by a sniper from a mile away.

[georgemckeon]

I went to an art school (that also has a school of architecture) in NYC during the 80s. More than a few professors (who all graduated school in the 50s) told me that when they could afford it they bought or designed a midcentury modern home for themselves. Everyone of them eventually sold their homes and ended up in either a colonial or Victorian house. I never forgot that.

[theaeon]

The house is actually spectacularly dysfunctional when you look into it

[asmodon]

It’s more a design study than a house to live in.

[tonkwas]

When you sleeping and the demons in the woods be watching you from every angle imaginable. 💀

[lancemillward]

The client hating it and taking you to court is a good indicator you are breaking new ground

[Hiraghm]

I love how she shows heart-achingly beautiful architectures before praising the Farnsworth house.

[xorbe]

Step 1: be able to afford a house where there are no other houses.

[gerardjagroo]

Nice. But I prefer the ornate decorative style that focuses on comfort with _some_ utility

[memegumin]

I'd have an anxiety attack every time I walk naked from the shower to the wardrobe

[morganhawkins]

I've never heard such an elegant description of a studio apartment😅.

[dakoitcave]

The McCormick House in Elmhurst Illinois is very similar to the Fanworth House. Also designed by Mies Va der Rohe. I walk by it almost every day, and been inside. It’s basically (what I can describe) as a what we call a “loft apartment” with only small sectioned walls separating one room from the next. Modern at the time, but an undesirable nuisance now. No personal space, no real privacy, and no muting of transmission of sound from one end to the other end of the unit.

[alexanderdgray]

Feels like raccoons and other critters would make nests underneath.

[claybowser]

Stray cats would show up and use the space underneath as a giant litter box. My shop is a cargo container raised off the ground like this and cats come from miles just to do that. Skunks like it to.

[Springbreak]

Ah yes what I desire most in a house almost zero privacy and comfort

[RyanJohnsonD]

Edith brought up that there were no closets for her clothes. He said, "why do you need a closet? It's a weekend retreat home?" He was obsessed with the abstract achievement of pure form of planes, vanishing points, and non-support walls. Mies wasn't thinking about the functional living space as a holistic solution. She insisted.

[filmmakerfoster]

It looks like the kind of house aliens would put us in and then shake to make us fight.