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HAL9000

What is your all time favorite house.

 
Jun 17, 04 4:16 pm
joe

scarface house... naw I dont know really, never thought about it too hard

Jun 17, 04 4:24 pm  · 
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FlowB

schindler's kings Road House

what up shwayze?

Jun 17, 04 6:11 pm  · 
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CREAM

winchester mansion, san jose-ish.

Jun 17, 04 6:13 pm  · 
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CREAM

winchester mansion, san jose-ish.

Jun 17, 04 6:13 pm  · 
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dia

I think these are exemplary:

Kidosaki House, Tadao Ando
Maison de Verre, Pierre Chareau
And of course, Casa Malaparte

Jun 18, 04 5:21 am  · 
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dimar

Tadao Ando.........especially in attempts to harmonize a building's form with its function....and that is the most importanat thing

Jun 18, 04 6:38 am  · 
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threshold

I'm with FlowB - Shindler's King's Road House.

Jun 18, 04 8:34 am  · 
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mbr

Frank Israel's Dragger House

Meier's Doublas House (and Rochoski? House)

Lautner (the one with the angles, although there are a bunch)

Carlo Zapata's Florida House

Jun 18, 04 8:47 am  · 
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drier house in venice,ca by coop-himmelblau and uomva it is inspirational , i am also jonesing on the vertical house by lorca oherilhy

Jun 18, 04 1:48 pm  · 
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mdler

barrigan's house

full house, with uncle jessie and all

Jun 18, 04 11:55 pm  · 
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archiphreak

ackerberg house and extension, ca, richard meier. brilliant.

Jun 21, 04 3:34 pm  · 
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BEN_Diddy

house party
house of blues
this old house
deep house

Jun 23, 04 12:23 pm  · 
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juan moment

fictitious: House of Leaves

actual: Holl's Stretto House

Jun 23, 04 12:37 pm  · 
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anatomical gift

Anatomically Correct House

Jun 23, 04 12:38 pm  · 
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le bossman

most of the classics by le bossman:

tron house

slippery house

house of latex tatami mats

hernia house

Jun 23, 04 1:10 pm  · 
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cgrammens

UN Studio __ Mobius House

Aug 31, 05 2:54 pm  · 
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larslarson

the mountain house or mountain tree house by
scogin elam and brey

http://www.msmearch.com/residential/mtn_house.html

the cortenz steel house by vincent james.

several houses by shim-sutcliffe.

Aug 31, 05 3:06 pm  · 
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MysteryMan

Demo (My) House (c2005). After we pulled up the wavy floors then levelled 'em out. After we demo'd the disco era bathroom of dark brown, carpet (who da faak does this?) & foil wallpaper. After we demo'd 900sf of decaying pine deck. After I dumped 12 dumptruck-loads of dirt & rock, to finally get a back yard.

It will be really bitchin' when I jack up the back & & level the back wall. Even better when we pull off all exterior wood & replace it w/ Brutalist level concrete! Effectively making hundreds of carpenter bees homeless.

1970's 'Contemporary' watch out! Yer comin' face-to-face w/ 21st century MysteryMan Demolition-ISM!

Aug 31, 05 3:24 pm  · 
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3dGraffiti

second the mountain tree house (Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects)... that's good stuff.

Aug 31, 05 4:15 pm  · 
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Medit

1. fallingwater
2. villa savoye
3. villa mairea
4. mies' brick house (as the residential version of the BCN pavilion)
5. ___ ...

Aug 31, 05 4:20 pm  · 
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sameolddoctor

the coop himmelblau house in venice, ca is one of the worst ive ever seen..i know this is going to offend many people here, but that crap is just noise for the sake of it

Aug 31, 05 4:42 pm  · 
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vado retro

house for dead people
maison di ill repute
maison san verre
house for a dysfunctional family
villa savory
house for the modern obese american family

all by atelier vado retro

Aug 31, 05 5:41 pm  · 
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abracadabra

amen

Aug 31, 05 5:56 pm  · 
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mwad

Anybody been to the Maison d'ver (?spelling?) - in English its the House of Glass. The craftsmenship/detailing/mechanisms are incredible.

Aug 31, 05 6:07 pm  · 
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vado retro

mwad u should really check out maison sans glass (house without glass) by atelier vadoretro. the craftsmanship/detailing/mechanisms reach a new level of mediocrity plus there is no glass.

Aug 31, 05 6:09 pm  · 
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mwad

Yeah I've heard sans glass is the new black.

Aug 31, 05 6:12 pm  · 
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mwad

Oh Diabese already said Maison de Verre...

Aug 31, 05 6:16 pm  · 
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I'll go in on Maison de Verre by Pierre Chareau - its every shop rat's dream.

mwad - there is a really good publication on the house, I believe its a GA Houses book. Its tough to find, but definately worth reading. I'd love to buy myself a copy if anyone knows where I can pick one up for a reasonable price...

Aug 31, 05 7:22 pm  · 
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Elimelech

actually one of my favorite houses is Ghery's own house. I actually think is one of the few times he was very creative. I really liked it, and has influenced me more thatn a thousand fish ever could

Aug 31, 05 7:26 pm  · 
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mwad

Pixelwhore, I'll have to check that out. I was lucky enough to go on a tour of the house while I was traveling Europe with a school program. To see it in person was pretty incredible.

Sep 1, 05 10:28 am  · 
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larslarson

gropius' house is rather nice as well...
visited it in person and the details and
thought that went into it show...very compact,
but well lived in and designed for good living.

Sep 1, 05 10:35 am  · 
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Medit

most of Murcutt houses should be in this list too.. specially the Simpson-Lee and Ball-Eastaway houses..



love his construction details of the roofs

Sep 1, 05 4:05 pm  · 
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MysteryMan

Often we think of great houses y themselves.
I'm by no means a Classicist, or 'Traditionalist', but there's a lot to be said for the older houses in the squares of Savannah...and New Orleans, I'd imagine.

I'd like to see ya'll post some examples of 'Modern', 'Ultra-Mod', 'Contemporary', (or whatever it's called now) 'neighborhoods', or groupings. Like 'squares', or something relevant.

Sep 1, 05 4:41 pm  · 
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larslarson

enric miralles...
always liked his la clota house

http://www.carmalaga.com/spain-architecture/casa-la-clota.htm

Sep 1, 05 4:46 pm  · 
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