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30.Jan.2008

client: department store owner, his wife, and adult son
program: master bedroom, 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath, kitchen, office, lounge, patio, garden; guest house w/ bedroom, bath, kitchenette
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29.Jan.2008

gordon matta-clark didn’t die from pancreatic cancer, he had consumption. in his last days he moved to this stone house in the monument valley to convalesce. this indexical monument was his last work; it is still being created.
hails to wikipedia: A weather house is a folk art device in the shape [...]

28.Jan.2008

im sorry in advance for the vague similarity to house 26. this is not a home for a man and his pets. this is a habitat nexus that must be constructed to avert trophic cascading as humans homogenize the planet’s surface.

1. On land, where biological diversity is generally far less than oceanic environments, [...]

26.Jan.2008

Any biologist can tell that our body’s cells are constantly dying and being replaced by new ones and every seven years we change the complete set of cells that means we change our body every seven years but this change is so gradual that it’s imperceptible. So, each of us has a number of “different” [...]

in the spring of 1861, two roommates, one for union and one for secession, unfortunately share a two bedroom house.
and the war came.
rather than break a lease and lose the deposit, each side must modify the dwelling so as to carry on the conflict, each praying to the same god, and each invoking his [...]

25.Jan.2008

hhumbert said: to any other type of tourist accommodation i soon grew to prefer the functional motel - clean, neat, safe nooks, ideal places for sleep, argument, reconciliation, insatiable illicit love.
please appoint a nook for humbert to enjoy with the nymphette of his choosing.

although the archetype is strict, i have proven that there [...]

24.Jan.2008

as young architects rake in the cash on fast-track chinese signature design work, they find the freedom to express themselves locally with more exquisite building materials. design a small home outside of marfa built entirely out of donald judd objects.

client

and donald judd? well hell, you know who he is!

23.Jan.2008

former bachelor pad taken over by a detached father with his dissatisfied second wife and frustrated daughter.
program: staircase, attic, rusty nails.

22.Jan.2008

in honour of david hemmings, we continue the week w/ more stories from cortázar. i don’t know if you have time to read ‘the bestiary’, so we will marry a bit of that piece w/ todays narrative.
guide: house taken over pdf.

context.

psychological context.
program: dining room, library (french literature), living room w/ tapestries, [...]

21.Jan.2008

reconstruct the scene. noted celebrity obituarist, gary kisser, limps through the portal in the broad glass wall, the san diego sunlight shows all the colours of the vomit running down his chest, his gait is uncertain and he falls to his knees multiple time, staggering, he looks directly into the clear sun, and falls into [...]