After spending months idled on the real estate market, José Oubrerie's Miller House in Kentucky exchanged hands twice in late 2018. 

As noted on real estate website Zillow, the home sold in September 2018 for $415,000, significantly lower than the $490,000 sale that had taken place just one month before, and well-below the $550,000 price it had been listed at previously. 

Both sales are a far cry from a $1,950,000 listing made for the home in 2010. The home was sold for $1,000,000 in 2008, following the 2006 death of its namesake patron. The identity of the most recent buyer is unclear, as is the future of the iconic house.

The legendary home was designed by Oubrerie in 1987 while he was dean at the University of Kentucky's School of Design, and represents a key conceptual work in the realm of residential design of the era. Created to house a real estate developer's four-person family, the cube-shaped residence exists as a manifesto wrought into built form through the explosive union of raw concrete walls, wooden catwalks, and colorful plaster walls. The resulting space, chaotic and interlocking in nature, disrupted and seemingly-in-motion in terms of form, was crafted by Oubrerie as a commentary on the sometimes-fraught familial relations that can result from living in close quarters. 

As such, the precedent-laden home is carved into a series of compartmentalized spaces that maintain views and spatial connections between themselves, never totally private and always open to interruption. The rooms slide passed one another while a catalogue of industrial materials--wire fencing, rolled steel structural tubes, and plywood finishes--outfit each space with a balance of warm, cold, soft, and rough textures. With an inverted sense of spatial privacy and a unique design for each of the building's exposures, the home blends influences from Oubrerie's mentor, Swiss architect Le Corbuiser, and a handful of other historical genres, including Renaissance design, American vernacular architecture, and de Stijl. 

Though the home is somewhat unloved, renewed interest in its teachings has taken hold in recent years. The Miller House, for example, was probed in-depth in Todd Gannon's 2014 collected volume, Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie’s Miller House. The publication featured essays on the home from educators and theorists, including, Jeffrey Kipnis, Kenneth Frampton, and Douglas Graf.

H/T to Twitter user @beornborg who recently spotted the sale on Zillow.