This Month In Dwell: Good Design Makes Good Neighbors
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 09.11.07
The theme of the issue is the New American Home, and the three shown all have similar attributes: they are not crazy over-the-top monsters but reasonably sized, carefully crafted and modest. In Minneapolis, home of the Dean residence, people have lawn signs saying "Monster Houses Make Bad Neighbors," so Architect Christian Dean added on to a 2 storey, 1000 SF existing house.“We wanted to follow the pattern of the neighborhood." Online at ::Dwell.
There is also a wonderful profile of 96 year old Julius Shulman, who took most of the memorable photographs of the iconic case study houses; those photographs are perhaps as iconic as the houses. One of the classics below the fold.
Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960 Pierre Koenig, Architect
Pierre Koenig putting on a record.
While a green home may be nice, the thing we really need to think about is over-population. Notice the family on the cover. Three kids. If our planet is to survive we need to quit breeding like rats...
While a green home may be nice, the thing we really need to think about is over-population. Notice the family on the cover. Three kids. If our planet is to survive we need to quit breeding like rats...
"the three shown all have similar attributes: they are not crazy over-the-top monsters but reasonably sized, carefully crafted and modest."
Well, of course. You don't want to be investigated by the Modesty Police, do you?
Ah yes, the fatwah du jour. Immodesty and conspicuous consumption will not be tolerated.