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more than beauty and function, many rooms have a kind of atmosphere, a history, that makes them intriguing.
It can be hard to decide – this or that, one or two, artisan whole wheat or quinoa spelt (hey, I live in Boulder). Hopefully there is not a lot riding on those decisions and a mistake can be revisisted or disguised as toast. A house it not such an easy fix. I am not [...]
Of the many types of ugly that inflict the American house, Ugly by Design, although not the most pervasive, it is certainly the most offensive. These houses clearly fall into the “what were they thinking” category of a design idea gone wrong. Sometimes Ugly by Design is the result of a once-interesting and innovative design [...]
First, it is not a product. Second, it is not a function of the architect’s ego. Third, it is not a function of the bank’s commodification And last, it is not a machine. When LeCorbusier first said “a house is a machine for living”, machines and technology were seen as liberating, not the soulless leviathans [...]
Architecture is serious business. Not only because architect’s take themselves painfully serious, but because for folks who choose to go down the path of designing and building a custom house, it is probably the most money they will ever spend. Tends to be a bit sobering. A house is the daily landscape of your life. [...]
This may seem obvious, but often people think they have to compromise between function and beauty. They do not. Any architect should be able to design a project that lives comfortable in that slippery neighborhood of “beautiful”. It may be that this is hopefully subjective, but many aspects of a kind of architectural aesthetics are [...]
This is the base competency for an architect – if you want a dining table that seats 10 (and you have made that clear to your architect) then the dining room ought to be able to hold that table. Room-by-room, this is not difficult. The homeowner describes what they want, in functional terms, the architect [...]
In case you were wondering if its true that your building materials go a long way to determining a building’s shape, I give you the following: The 1980′s historical pastiche of Po-Mo as rendered in the very appropriate foam blocks (not so far from the EIFS of the time) the large, rambling suburban “Western” McMansion [...]
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