I’ve been poisoning my brain the last couple of weeks narrowing down 2000 prospective McMansions to 16. Please give me a round of applause for this immense personal sacrifice. Instead of ranking them myself like I usually do, I will be doing a bracket at the end of the next post where you can vote for the Most Terrible in Texas! (After all, everything’s bigger in Texas!) — mcmansionhell.com
McMansion Hell, a bi-weekly blog delighting in architectural education through ridicule, now brings us a Texas bracket. The top 8 worst McMansions of Texas suburbia have been chosen and properly mocked. Now it's your turn to choose which belongs at the innermost circle of hell.
Here are a few of the contenders:
Montgomery County (House 3) (AKA Cascading Nope)
Denton County (House 5) (AKA Mt Nub)
Collin County (House 7) (AKA The Triple Can)
Check out the full lineup at McMansion Hell and get ready to cast your vote!
Want to learn more about McMansion Hell? Check our our conversation with McMansion Hell's author Kate Wagner, from a previous episode of Archinect Sessions...
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The prize for worst McMansion in Texas will be split among all the entrants.
No big surprise. The design of conventional, (dare I say traditional) house design is not taught in most architecture schools. The principals of symmetry and proportion that would help people design this kind of stuff are actively hated by a lot of the people who teach in schools.
I lost interest in McMansion Hell after the author's thinkpiece claiming that "McUrbanism" developments (my term, those cookie cutter Holiday-Inn looking apartment buildings) are immune from critique because something something density. I say critique ugliness everywhere. But no, McMansion hell is another generic McUrbanist political wannabe--we already have enough of those.
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