Some About Architecture

STORIES OF HOUSES are examples of homes from which we can all learn: both customers when considering the commissioning of a project, such as architects to understand and assess the client's life.

How could it be housing an architect who designs his young sister when she becomes a widow? What can an architect offer when his client in a wheelchair asks for a complex design of the house that will be your world? And when some art lovers offer total freedom when designing the house? How is it that his neighbors house architect tiroteen most international prestige? ...

Some About Architecture

Start today published a series of articles that seek to respond to questions about the intimacies and origins of important international houses. You try to fill the void created by so many books of history of architecture that by neglecting these extreme personal sources, forget the multidisciplinary character of architecture. The houses have been analyzed, therefore, chosen by the essential criterion of having, in addition to the ingredients of a good architecture and an architect with appreciation, some clients tell a passionate story that generates the project. Stories of Houses include information about customers, their requests and needs, without which no one comes to understand the end result.

contemporary homes
From Laugier hut, which illustrates primitive architecture, to the homes of Abalos and Herreros Architects based on the phenomenon of the Swatch watch, through the House of the Future, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson marriage; the study of housing has been linked to the time in which they were built. Beyond the styles and fashions, Stories of Houses deals with feelings and passions which help to establish an analysis of time to which they belong. Examples of architectures that are always current, since they deal with personal emotions with which we all identify.
The development of housing program that clients is a process that is reversed later when the house molds the life of its inhabitants. The furniture, memories, inherited objects and collections; they are all symbols of what we are or what we want to be. You could say that if the facades of the houses are inside the city, the interiors of the houses exterior of their inhabitants. Consequently, the history of the dwelling derives from the plurality of the society in which it is built, education and imagination of the architect and the user's life. It is here, in short, to assert a stronger relationship between client and architect.
The published material has the rigor of being corrected and approved by the architects of the houses. They are items of newly built homes, although some of them are already ruined. Only one case a project is not built, the architect Enric Miralles. His recent death did not allow him to do it. He dedicated these items.

Captions.
a. Marc-Antoine Laugier, The rustic cabin in Essay on Architecture (Paris 1753).
b. The House of the Future by Alison and Peter Smithson was presented at the annual exhibition Ideal House organized in 1956 by the Daily Mail of London. It was a home-produced series that included the forecast of what will be available in twenty-five years.
c. The AH architects Iñaki Abalos and Juan Herreros (1994), households react to the conventional dwelling, changing their image depending on the environment where they are located.
d. The facades of the houses are inside the city. View of downtown Reykjavik
e. Home studio architect John Soane built in London in the early nineteenth century. Its interior externalizes its inhabitants.