I don't see what the hype is all about, it still looks like boxes to me.
Steven Ward
Aug 28, 08 3:41 pm
you're definitely missing it, then, zig. i've been to a bunch of amazing and much more recognized houses and this is by far the best ever.
aquapura
Aug 28, 08 3:48 pm
Maybe you have to be a coorb fan to enjoy it. I thought Villa Savoie was amazing to see in person, but non-corb people hate it. By looking at the aerial all the "new" stuff around the Miller house looks like suburban developer schlock. Would you prefer that? I doubt it.
Apurimac
Aug 28, 08 4:40 pm
Wow, it really does sit as a pearl amongst a sea crap doesn't it?
Dapper Napper
Aug 28, 08 5:00 pm
That google map is sooo depressing. Less than twenty years and it looks like the last stand of the alamo. Feels kind of hopeless.
Apurimac
Aug 28, 08 5:02 pm
It's right up I-75, may have to road trip up there when I move back south.
Steven Ward
Aug 28, 08 5:38 pm
you'd want to try to arrange to get in. that's where the magic is. email me if you want contact info.
liberty bell
Aug 28, 08 6:34 pm
Thanks for posting that link to google maps, aquapura. It is radically changed, but from it you can see the approach was through an allee of trees that then suddenly opened to the right where you would see the northwest facade, with the southwest stair peeking out. So cool.
And yes, if you're planning an architour, try to arrange to get inside - the UK school of architecture might also be able to help. I only saw it from the outside and it's so spatially complex and detail-oriented that I know I only got 1/4 the whole experience, if that!
Emilio
Aug 28, 08 7:23 pm
from the Google map it looks like the house is holding back suburbia from eating up the countryside....
Steven Ward
Aug 29, 08 7:28 am
it's failed, emilio. the area around the house is now being developed as a house farm.
zigfromsa
Aug 29, 08 9:22 am
Perhaps all those tract home buyers are there b/c they like to look at the Miller house and like to show it off to their visitors.
It still looks like its made from plenty of lines and boxes to me, its very sterile in fact, like an office building, it just doesn't look or feel like a home to me. I don't like sterile, sterile is like fake genuine, sort of like those model homes or something.
Apurimac
Aug 29, 08 9:35 am
I dunno zig, it's not sterile in a Japanese Modern way, there's alot of material richness in that place, between the wood, concrete, and steel there's alot of good stuff to run your hands over in there.
I love the feel of warm concrete for some reason.
Evan Chakroff
Oct 22, 08 11:29 am
just went down there yesterday. it's true, the photos don't do it justice, the interior is incredible.
is the UK school of architecture restoring it? looks like most of the graffiti has been painted over. what a mess i can't believe how fast it was taken over by those vandals.
that concrete stair with the wood is HOTT!
liberty bell
Oct 23, 08 4:51 pm
Yay, Evan, I'm so glad you got to go see it!
Evan Chakroff
Oct 23, 08 5:11 pm
and - here's a link to the foundation that's overseeing the restoration:
Nice photos indeed, Evan. The house is a thing for architects to drool over, and a veritable symposium in detailing...but can there be too much of a good thing? It feels like Oubrerie put EVERY form and detail he ever accumulated or thought of in this house, to the point where it feels like there's no simple or quiet passages to the design, nowhere to rest (that's just from seeing the pics). Then again, if I ever got the chance to do a house like that, I would probably do the same.
The restorers are doing a nice job.
Steven Ward
Oct 23, 08 8:44 pm
when i visited the caretaker did tell us her first couple of weeks were like sensory overload but that she settled in after that and felt more comfortable.
Steven Ward
Oct 23, 08 8:45 pm
not that she lives there. she just comes daily to check on the place and maybe work on it some.
David Cuthbert
Oct 23, 08 10:59 pm
evan thats' an insane photo collection of that building.
drums please, Fab?
Nov 7, 12 1:34 am
i just purchase ga houses 35
yay
Evan Chakroff
Apr 11, 17 2:35 pm
update: the house is on the market again, price slashed to $550,000.
That Matterport 3D reconstruction is insane - I love how glitchy it is. Obviously their algorithm is used to assembling simpler spaces. The individual 360 Photos are great.
Josh Mings
Apr 12, 17 6:11 pm
The more and more I look at this house, the more and more it feels like an Eisenman/Corbusier mashup clusterf**k.
That's not a good thing. My hometown Miller House is far better.
just the most incredible house i've ever visited...and i've visited a lot of the biggies.
pix:
mine
someone else's
...but pictures don't do it justice. for the first time in a long time, a prolonged state of wonder, wandering from space to space, detail to detail.
everyone should experience this house.
not kidding.
I don't see what the hype is all about, it still looks like boxes to me.
you're definitely missing it, then, zig. i've been to a bunch of amazing and much more recognized houses and this is by far the best ever.
Maybe you have to be a coorb fan to enjoy it. I thought Villa Savoie was amazing to see in person, but non-corb people hate it. By looking at the aerial all the "new" stuff around the Miller house looks like suburban developer schlock. Would you prefer that? I doubt it.
Wow, it really does sit as a pearl amongst a sea crap doesn't it?
That google map is sooo depressing. Less than twenty years and it looks like the last stand of the alamo. Feels kind of hopeless.
It's right up I-75, may have to road trip up there when I move back south.
you'd want to try to arrange to get in. that's where the magic is. email me if you want contact info.
Thanks for posting that link to google maps, aquapura. It is radically changed, but from it you can see the approach was through an allee of trees that then suddenly opened to the right where you would see the northwest facade, with the southwest stair peeking out. So cool.
And yes, if you're planning an architour, try to arrange to get inside - the UK school of architecture might also be able to help. I only saw it from the outside and it's so spatially complex and detail-oriented that I know I only got 1/4 the whole experience, if that!
from the Google map it looks like the house is holding back suburbia from eating up the countryside....
it's failed, emilio. the area around the house is now being developed as a house farm.
Perhaps all those tract home buyers are there b/c they like to look at the Miller house and like to show it off to their visitors.
It still looks like its made from plenty of lines and boxes to me, its very sterile in fact, like an office building, it just doesn't look or feel like a home to me. I don't like sterile, sterile is like fake genuine, sort of like those model homes or something.
I dunno zig, it's not sterile in a Japanese Modern way, there's alot of material richness in that place, between the wood, concrete, and steel there's alot of good stuff to run your hands over in there.
I love the feel of warm concrete for some reason.
just went down there yesterday. it's true, the photos don't do it justice, the interior is incredible.
www.flickr.com/photos/evandagan/sets/72157608274765209/show/
beautiful photos, thanks for posting that Evan!
is the UK school of architecture restoring it? looks like most of the graffiti has been painted over. what a mess i can't believe how fast it was taken over by those vandals.
that concrete stair with the wood is HOTT!
Yay, Evan, I'm so glad you got to go see it!
and - here's a link to the foundation that's overseeing the restoration:
http://www.thefoundationforadvancedarchitecture.org/
Nice photos indeed, Evan. The house is a thing for architects to drool over, and a veritable symposium in detailing...but can there be too much of a good thing? It feels like Oubrerie put EVERY form and detail he ever accumulated or thought of in this house, to the point where it feels like there's no simple or quiet passages to the design, nowhere to rest (that's just from seeing the pics). Then again, if I ever got the chance to do a house like that, I would probably do the same.
The restorers are doing a nice job.
when i visited the caretaker did tell us her first couple of weeks were like sensory overload but that she settled in after that and felt more comfortable.
not that she lives there. she just comes daily to check on the place and maybe work on it some.
evan thats' an insane photo collection of that building.
i just purchase ga houses 35
yay
update: the house is on the market again, price slashed to $550,000.
https://archpaper.com/2017/04/jose-oubrerie-miller-house/
Here is Eero Saarinen's "Miller" House in Columbus, Indiana, not too far away. The Midwest is not too shabby in places.
GET THAT OUTTA HERE!
This is Jose's thread.
:angry:
The Saarinen house is also known for its landscape architecture by Daniel Kiley. Jose comes up a little scruffy.
Pretty cool virtual tour of this building from the listing Evan linked above:
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=7Jn6dSiMtvV&mls=1
That Matterport 3D reconstruction is insane - I love how glitchy it is. Obviously their algorithm is used to assembling simpler spaces. The individual 360 Photos are great.
The more and more I look at this house, the more and more it feels like an Eisenman/Corbusier mashup clusterf**k.
That's not a good thing. My hometown Miller House is far better.