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[@xorbe2]

Step 1: be able to afford a house where there are no other houses.

[@pipo3686]

i think that house would be cheaper than a house where there are other houses

[@RadenWA]

Be able to afford the commutes, you mean

[@frp1276]

Ah yes the ever present poverty comments likely made on the pocket supercomputer

[@maeryn4200]

Whta do you when a drone flies in?

[@RadenWA]

@@frp1276 affording this house is waaaay beyond affording the pocket supercomputer so idk what your point 🤷‍♂️

[@SetuwoKecik]

This house needs a freaking curtain.

[@minaldhurve8988]

This is Joe's (from YOU) dreamhouse🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@minaldhurve8988]

For stalking purposes of course, he'd never live in it😆.

[@fayenotfaye]

Electrochromic class would be amazing, being able to turn the glass completely opaque with the flick of a switch would be insane. It’s already used in some high end showers but it would amazing if used there.

[@massey81]

No privacy. Will cost a pretty penny to keep warm. Feels like a strong wind can topple it over. Constantly need to clean the glass. No thanks.

[@JustADudeDoingSomething]

There are.

[@miltaire3235]

It gives you perfect 24/7 view of the skinwalkers stalking you from the woods

[@TSV805]

Yes! Too many windows 😳😬

[@Su-ri5ob]

I can't imagine how cold it would be in winter.

[@jeltoninc.8542]

Yeah I’d live there in a heartbeat.

[@georgemckeon6710]

I went to an art school (that also has a school of architecture) in NYC during the 80s. More than a few professors (who all graduated school in the 50s) told me that when they could afford it they bought or designed a midcentury modern home for themselves. Everyone of them eventually sold their homes and ended up in either a colonial or Victorian house. I never forgot that.

[@Nero-ho6gt]

Funny, isn't it?

[@alclay8689]

So telling

[@oscaranderson5719]

they’re simple, they work, and most importantly the window sills are set higher than my block and tackle

[@karisdraws4061]

Victorian and colonial type hpuses are so beautiful to be honest. I like how often you will find these in the United states and Canada.

[@exchangAscribe]

this is actually a reoccuring phenomena that some other videos on architecture cover. alot of modern architect teachers preach modern ideas and post modern designs but almost all of them, choose to to work and live in older classical architecture. the exact type of architecture they fight to teach against. some of the most prominent modernist architects, do the same thing, they choose to live and work in spaces that are nothing like what they design (even though they have every capability to do so). its incredibly hypocritical, and it happens for a reason. classical older architectural styles are objectively more beautiful, and modern teachers are teaching how to be in a 'club' and be accepted by your architecture student peers. they want the freedom to express and show off with their work, to get glory for themselves by their eye catching designs. its all elitist behavior. its was never about making something for the people that people actually like.

[@bagaskara_vi1572]

Istg my professor will slap the sh t out of me if i designed my studio project like this ✊😭

[@Mikivli]

Than I say be bold do it and slap him before he slaps you 😅😂

[@LO-dm6uf]

We study Farnsworth house not because it's a good case study for CURRENT contemporary architecture, but because it just displays the core ideas of modernist architecture. We don't study history of architecture to copy but to get inspired by the design process and ideas that led to the final product

[@Romo2055]

yeah because now these designs are not new, back then this was something new and unconventional so yeah, it's like trying to design a simple airplane in aerospace class and creating something like the wright brothers aircraft

[@LO-dm6uf]

@@Romo2055 no it's not because it's not "new", it's because it's not functional or suitable for our time at all.

[@bagaskara_vi1572]

@@Romo2055 i don't think that would be the problem, a lot of my friend (including me) design a very mediocre building for our studio but got accepted, the farnsworth are just simply not usable. The glass would make the inside temperatures unbearable in summer and there's no privacy inside the house

[@filmmakerfoster]

It looks like the kind of house aliens would put us in and then shake to make us fight.

[@sergeantbigmac]

EXACTLY! Im thinking of the gilded cage the main character is forced to live in at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Its strangely beautiful and visually interesting yet I wouldnt want to live a single day in that place. Its a cold human exhibit not a home.

[@innocento.1552]

😂😂😂😂😂 @ shake to make us fight

[@charlottewolery558]

If you replace aliens with demons, you're probably 90% correct.

[@kavky]

This is the kind of house you see in thriller films where someone gets oofed by a sniper from a mile away.

[@ah5721]

😂

[@fibonaccisrazor]

Anthony Zimmerman, the film😂

[@StallionStudios1234]

In the girl with the dragon Tattoo the serial killer lived in a house like that.

[@Hiraghm]

I love how she shows heart-achingly beautiful architectures before praising the Farnsworth house.

[@jaqssmith1666]

I guess if you want to be surrounded by clutter.

[@akikom1331]

Yes, that was the provide historical design context to showcase why this design was so unique and perhaps a complimentary response to the traditional styles at the time. She never mentions if one is better than the other. I personally like and appreciate both. 💛

[@ethanhanbury4455]

@@jaqssmith1666clutter? You mean your things? Have it your way, sit alone in your boring white room in your boring white house

[@soysource3218]

@@jaqssmith1666 That craftsmanship you call ‘clutter’ is art.

[@damnson0813]

​@@jaqssmith1666clutter 💀💀💀

[@tonkwas]

When you sleeping and the demons in the woods be watching you from every angle imaginable. 💀

[@johnayomide4793]

This had me cracking 😂🤣

[@ex0duzz]

There's curtains lol.

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

my like was 667th. i almost want to take it back I would HATE being forced to live in something like this

[@elcatrinc1996]

they are gonna see a man without fear and without pants!

[@jasonutty52]

​@@ex0duzz That'll stop 'em

[@alexanderdgray]

Feels like raccoons and other critters would make nests underneath.

[@marcovirtual]

Any way you see it, at least for a sane person, this would be a ridiculous house to live in.

[@Emoechaiti]

​@@marcovirtual this whole house, as a single room would be better You can enjoy the nature during rain or snowfall in that room But as a house? hell no

[@oscarcacnio8418]

So... Great in a wildlife sanctuary?

[@frost1183]

@@marcovirtual then I’m not sane. I’d like to live there.

[@literallynoone8223]

@@frost1183 yes, you are not

[@Ariesoetomo]

My mind automatically imagining a heavy rain with loud thunder at the middle of the night and a dark almost thin figure staring at you menacingly outside the glass wall 😅

[@jaqssmith1666]

Then let him in; its raining and he's probably cold :(

[@_jpg]

​@jaqssmith1666 It would be only a minor improvement due to the heating nightmare this house is and the flood area it stands in 😅

[@lancemillward1912]

The client hating it and taking you to court is a good indicator you are breaking new ground

[@Chinoiserie9839]

Yep...there is so much sugar coating with her description.

[@memegumin]

I'd have an anxiety attack every time I walk naked from the shower to the wardrobe

[@kik0le]

True, even with curtains because I'd always second guess wether or not I closed them.

[@UnModern]

You guys dpnt wear towels?

[@kik0le]

@@UnModern I've never had to worry about my neighbors seeing me come out the shower before, let alone have my entire house out on display for every passerby to see, so forgive me if I feel a bit vulnerable even with a towel.

[@Plutonium_2_3_9]

The architects wife hated living there because of that.

[@UnModern]

@@kik0le understandable

[@Lobgwiny]

Called a 'three bucket house' by the owner due to it's leaks, the house overheated in the summer and was impossible to keep warm in the winter.

[@atimko123]

Floor to ceiling windows look great...comfort & utility bills to heat & cool. especially in extreme climate zones...not so great

[@wtfgreg1246]

"functionality" um he forgot that part

[@ricand5498]

First thing I thought was “looks like hell to keep warm”

[@Colm1800]

i mean look at the "foundation" literally nothing but a cooling function and the glass walls just make keeping heat in even worse, and during the summer the glass becomes a magnifying glass lol

[@sarahgoettsch1324]

The owner had to escape during a flood in a little boat with her dog 🥲 I always find it interesting how, in some cases, revolutionary architecture has its downfalls for the client (when the well being of the client is the most integral part of the whole process).

[@sosaysthecaptain5580]

The beginning of the end of beauty in architecture

[@ChainsawWieldingSquirrelChaser]

Indeed.

[@susanlynch1966]

That is one of the most soulless properties I have ever seen

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

As furnished, sure. Use it functionally as a greenhouse though and it's great. Would also help with temps

[@GelloWello]

@@OatmealTheCrazyThat sounds great if it was in the middle of no where in Alaska. It would even add some privacy as this structure offers none.

[@Yantrus]

That's modern architecture for you

[@asmodon]

It’s more a design study than a house to live in.

[@piratekit3941]

It did invite full glass windows for natural light to start popularity. The whole thing was a silly idea, but it did start the more modern house trend.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@@piratekit3941 booooooo

[@ilailailailaila]

​@@robertortiz-wilson1588 what's with the boo

[@lonestarr1490]

@@ilailailailaila It's presumably meant to convey that the modern house trend is shit.

[@cappie2000]

it's like high fashion; it may look interesting, but nobody is going to buy that shit..

[@Tony-iu7sw]

😂 one things for sure. You definitely can't get away with telling unwanted company you're not home

[@snrnsjd]

🤣

[@munchkint]

just stare at them through the window until they go away no?

[@iceveinz8730]

The expansive glass wall also provided an uninterrupted view of the inside of the house

[@jhoughjr1]

That house would be hell to live in.

[@alexanderetheredge4191]

Ah yes what I desire most in a house almost zero privacy and comfort

[@RedeemedPaladin]

Its developer focused design, they are easy to build and dont require high skilled labor

[@alexanderetheredge4191]

@@RedeemedPaladin the same is true of pole barn construction. And that glass is definitely more difficult to install than siding and drywall

[@RedeemedPaladin]

@@alexanderetheredge4191 siding and drywall for "poor" steel and glass for "middle class", most of houses for new rich are made in this style to

[@thefatbob3710]

I love it actually

[@Laspatoadv]

Depends on what piece of land you put it in, no?

[@morganhawkins2250]

I've never heard such an elegant description of a studio apartment😅.

[@iopohable]

na. you can actually live in a studio apartment

[@aliasgur3342]

I was thinking 'big greenhouse with furniture'

[@mikkelbreiler8916]

This is the brick equivalent to a meal at a fancy Michelin restaurant. The component are mundane yet rare to the location and otherwise prepared with rare treatment and cost too much and are served in a measure inadequate to the feel of content.

[@doomguy1263]

Ah, the 1950s, back when architects made it their life’s work to single-handedly destroy thousands of years of artistic tradition and brilliant engineering

[@notacomputer5486]

I don't like it either, but it's not a destruction, it's a subversion. It's doing the exact opposite of what others are doing because they feel like there is a part missing. This is exactly how all those other "thousands of years of design" were developed too. This is just how art works.

[@_jpg]

​@notacomputer5486 So you mean it's exactly doing the opposite of what a house is supposed to be. A place to be living in, even if its just for a weekend, instead of some vain momument to the architect's ego

[@gregoryschmidt1233]

Composers were busy doing the same to 400 years of classical music.

[@exchangAscribe]

i dont like it either, but if artists didnt do this, you wouldnt even have the 'artistic tradition and brilliant engineering' of architectural styles that you do like in the first place. those styles exists because someone did the exact same thing as this guy did with this house - innovated. its a necessary process to some extent.

[@gerardjagroo]

Nice. But I prefer the ornate decorative style that focuses on comfort with _some_ utility

[@generoberts7648]

Frank Lloyd Wright made the comment "I can't tell if I'm inside or outside".

[@josephmama9657]

Did Falling water come before or after this house?

[@dukeoflimbs6405]

​@@josephmama9657 Fallingwater came first.

[@MeanLaQueefa]

I live a few blocks from a few F.L.W houses, he’s from my state. They look beautiful, especially compared to this box.

[@fahadb6994]

I said that to my gf yesterday and now I sleep in couch 😭

[@troyorsoldstuff7780]

@@josephmama9657 before

[@chancekahle2214]

You can't call it a house when it was too miserable for anyone to live in.

[@AdobadoFantastico]

It feels like high fashion for architecture. It's about the architecture as artistic expression of the architect.

[@JM-qb2kd]

@@AdobadoFantastico it’s gross

[@benjaminmarsolek6867]

​@Anguel Roumenov whats he expressing? his emptyheadedness and lack of creativity?

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@AdobadoFantastico Thanks, I despise it.

[@BALLINKUMAR]

This house looks like Patrick Bateman would live in it

[@iwantthe80sback59]

Zero sound insulation either. You could hear every single noise in that house no matter which part of it you were actually in.

[@theaeon]

The house is actually spectacularly dysfunctional when you look into it

[@Amorcea]

Finally, an aquarium for humans.

[@sergeikrivenko9043]

Literally my house in Minecraft.

[@MegaMilenche]

Oh, my God, yes! I tried to build one like this for my self, on top of a cliff, with forest at the back.

[@xDeathMarinex]

I want the ornate and decorative styles to come back. I don't think the grey box look was ever in.

[@Solhurst]

This man single handedly made like 10% of all annoying people with one building

[@ChrisLeeW00]

Nobody who has an ounce of sanity would live in a literal glass house.

[@fardrives]

Yeah.. If you want nice views, just go outside 😂

[@NateWilliams-zr2ef]

Unless its bulletproof glass 😂

[@greyfox4838]

You'll realize it's way less depressing when you live in a house that has a nice view of nature. Being sealed inside by brick walls is the biggest reason modern humans are so depressed all the time.

[@camilleovalles8113]

Especially in South Texas lol

[@fardrives]

@@greyfox4838 you just install overly large windows in areas where the natural lighting comes in easily, or there is a specific view you're trying to capture. Trust me, a home is meant to provide privacy and safety. I've worked on hundreds of million dollar or multi-million dollar mansions as an electrician for years on the islands of the Florida Keys. I've worked on glass houses, and the only way it works well is if the structure is propped up on 15ft concrete beams and away from the ground as much as possible. With one of my experiences, the glass wall portion of the home was facing the ocean(it was on a private beach). But anything facing the inland was walled off with windows for the specific reason the home owner did not want to constantly wonder who could be watching. The house in this video is more of an art piece than it is a home. It's just not practical or comfortably livable for ~95% of people over time. One peeping Tom will change the home owners opinion, and constantly add anxiety to the house.

[@HBDiniz10]

No privacy at all in that house lmao

[@ChrisBrengel]

Actually, Mise van der Roe was not an idiot, (in fact he was a genius and one of the best architects in history), so this occurred to him. If you go there in person it has a surprising amount of privacy.

[@HBDiniz10]

@@ChrisBrengel well... how? It looks like it's super exposed

[@TheOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]

​@@HBDiniz10 curtains exist

[@livelife5309]

I’m seeing thick opaque curtains that are perfect for privacy. The curtains keep out too much sunlight and it doesn’t seem like neighbors are close by. This is a dream house. I love how you enjoy nature so much. I saw this show on hgtv or some station about homes.

[@Amin.Ashraf]

​@@HBDiniz10 if you have a big enough lawn and backyard with a lot of tree that it's practically a woodland. Or you could use one way mirror instead of see through glass. It definitely don't a suitable design for suburban. But I see it's no different with a luxury apartment in a skyscraper.

[@DeusEversor]

Worst mistake of humanity. Man should have been stripped of his status for crimes against aesthetic.

[@jasonutty52]

It's just a different aesthetic.

[@_jpg]

Not only that, but also for sucking up to a certain dictatorship in Germany...

[@sterlingnumerical8723]

he didn't break architecture. he broke society.

[@kaunas888]

Johnson made a similar glass "fish tank" type glass house, but he would often sleep in another house because he had no privacy in his own glass house.

[@lonestarr1490]

Many modern architects prefer to reside in traditional town houses.

[@amirhosseinmaghsoodi388]

Imagine how energy inefficient this house must be.

[@joshuagaither4866]

Heat seeping through windows in winter, lensing/heating affect during the summer. 💀

[@Sarah-ic4yu]

Yes!! It completely throws passive design out the window (no pun intended.) I bet it gets insanely hot when the afternoon sun shines in

[@cappie2000]

it's like high fashion; it may look interesting, but nobody is going to buy that shit..

[@lrb4]

@@joshuagaither4866and it was the 50s so single pane glass with 0 insulation

[@atimko123]

Single glass= R1, modern dual pane, w/low e=R4... normal wall Insulation values needs to average R15 to R25, higher the better....so yea a house w/floor to ceiling single pane glass walls is gonna be a very uncomfortable, leaky & expensive house to live in year round.

[@manikandan_k]

It's like tapping a banana to the wall and calling it a revolution .

[@pieterpuk7684]

The issue with this house is that all of its principles and subversions only work for the ultra-rich that live on giant plots of land. To everyone else, everywhere else, forever.... We need the old styles.

[@GelloWello]

It won’t even work for the rich. Imagine living there with a family, or having guests over. There is no sense of privacy or discretion. Your home would feel like a public space

[@bobfg3130]

There's no ultra-rich. It's just rich. That's what it means to be rich.

[@hofimastah]

So he is guilty of all of those terrible modernist buildings that has been created for architects fame not for people to live in?

[@elijaholing]

I was looking for this comment. We now know who to blame for the boring, bland, non-private designs we see today

[@Mrlino091]

Exactly, I was thinking the same.

[@justdoinmything]

I was literally going to comment this modern architecture is boring land and most importantly depressing. The design siphons all the creativity around it into the garbage can

[@sleepyearth]

He actually got sued for this house because the client was pissed he used her house for vanity project instead of making it livable.

[@SnailHatan]

Yes, yes, that’s why so many people live in them. Fascinating.

[@lyly1913]

Literally every professor I’ve had HATED this house and I can see why

[@vadym8713]

yep, he destroyed architecture :) We need more nice houses

[@_jpg]

My professors love it, unfortunately, and praise van der Rohe beside Le Corbusier. It's a pain to watch and hear, which is why I'm probably going to study something else 😥

[@theviniso]

@@_jpg You got some cool professors. Where do you study?

[@_jpg]

@@theviniso They are not "cool" and neither is their taste. To prevent similar designs being build in the future, I'll keep that information for myself. Thank you for your understanding. ❤️

[@theviniso]

@@_jpg Now I'm gonna build a bunch of modernist buildings just out of spite.

[@maelk6430]

Probably a house for a lone person. You'd turn mad living in there with someone else as it is almost impossible to get total silence and/or true social isolation

[@hellofellows1]

The main problem with this house is that even the best windows provide virtually no insulation. It sold be virtually impossible to keep it at a reasonable temperature.

[@K0rp0]

Back in that day, yes. Common problem today: modern windows isolate better than old walls.

[@4Gehe2]

As an engineer, I can only see a nightmare of hiding the utilities, and nightmare of trying to fabricate that thing. Also that roof is like snowload central. I don't even do HVAC stuff. But steel structures... I don't even want to think about building something like that.

[@kchiu9080]

steel structure around the facade with a central concrete core, its like a typical core and shell model with everything running at the center... so basically how every office tower is built dude... the only thing bad about this case I can think of is how to keep the water out, but other than that everything is fairly simple

[@4Gehe2]

@@kchiu9080 Except that is not how it was made. There is no concrete core. There is one small utility duct leading to a mecjhanocal space. I can't find the HVAC plans in more detail. The architecturals are easily found. Also we don't build like that here, it wouldn't pass code. This thing here wouldn't pass code even if it tried. Also... I looked at the drawins to reply to you. The ceiling is prefab concrete slab. And the whole thing is just stock steeel profiles. There are no HVACs beyond the bathrooms and kitchen sink. 9 electrical sockets total. No radiators. I guess the heating is supposed to happen fully with fireplace? Also no cooling during summer either. So that has to be a hot and humid night mare. Yeah the windows do seem to open which is nice. Seriously... That is a contracting nightmare. It isn't like I haven't made things like that. I have... they were factory floors being retrofit to an old factory space. Also... So many cold bridges concuting heat around and about. If I had to do that today. I'd put floor heating, and air pump. Use the utility duct and take the water circulation to cellar space hidden, in which you keep ground heat pumps, water systems, and electrical. Then the mechanical core can have lot of it's space turned to in to heat reserving fire place, and install air ciculation systems in to it, along with dehumidifier/AC system that dumps water to drain directly. And even still your energy rating would be Ö.

[@saeedhossain6099]

it also floods repeatedly. frankly it seems to me to be more of a proof of concept that space can be defined without interior walls. but given it's location near Chicago Illinois, it's not at all something that exists in a location to meet the issues of the location. it's interesting but ultimately a glass shipping container house, and because it was glass, it ends up getting no option of thermal mass that many buried container homes are able to leverage.

[@meateaw]

​@@4Gehe2 this is like complaining about your model T ford because it doesn't have ABS and airbags. Of course it doesn't pass current code. Of course it doesn't have 7 HVACS and 37 million power points including USB sockets and hidden QI chargers. It's an old AF house built by a guy that was slightly annoyed at his client.

[@YoungXelDong]

​@@ParanoidAlbanoidim neither an architect nor engineer so i really dont understand the friction between you guys. But i trust both of you - architect for the design and engineer for structural issues. I wouldnt trust one person to do an excellent job on both tasks.

[@cbjamboii]

Imagine all the heat gains through those windows 😩😩😩

[@korpen2858]

Or loss during the winter 🥶

[@johnthomson2377]

This man single-handedly damned mental health for generations to come.

[@kuruc3294]

The begining of the end.

[@enter_64]

I think I went to a lecture regarding this house. Even though it's raised, the area floods pretty often which makes the house inaccessible by normal means, on a good amount of occasions. Even though Mies planned for this, the flooding still damages a good amount of the structural elements (iirc), and sometimes overflows onto the main floor. Would this be considered good design regardless?

[@Deadeye313]

Sometimes an interesting design is just not a good design for where it is.

[@angelcalderon5680]

Depends on perspective: as an art piece It doesn't affect the quality of the design, as a house it's fucking awful

[@kaunas888]

Not only was there no privacy...but architectural students would constantly make pilgrimages to the house to look at it...and everything that was going on inside of it naturally.

[@alexzander7386]

pilgrimage, the word makes it sound like this is a holy site, rather than the idol of architectural sin that it is. another commentor said that this house was hated by its owner, as she had paid for a normal house and the designer built their own vanity project at her expense. I would rather a saxon pit house than this oversized fish tank. looks like I would put a ball python or a turtle in there with a heat lamp. all it is missing is the water bottle dangling from the ceiling so i can have a fresh drink after running on my hamster wheel

[@Tamj_Bty]

Key feature of this House is it is really reliable for keeping privacy 👍

[@TheMaddestofLads]

This house screams "I want to live in both a cubicle and an aquarium." There was a time when people built complex structures like cathedrals because they wanted to make something beautiful and awe inspiring. Something that would stand the test of time. Brutalism destroyed modern architecture.

[@samuelbras1]

This needs a follow up video. The Farnsworth house sure is interesting on a conceptual level and materials... But also how maybe an architect should not design a house. There is a good vid out there explaining it. Something with beautiful disaster if I remember

[@DamiLeeArch]

Good idea

[@ligametis]

Have seen glass houses with similar idea in Europe. They look good, are premium houses.

[@xmindk]

​​​@@DamiLeeArch Apple Tree House by Acdf Architecture ,maybe the most beautiful homage to Mies work!

[@pedroedsos]

@@DamiLeeArch This house is not even close to being the departure from ornamented buildings. Iconic Bauhaus buildings and Villa Savoye are from the 1930s. Even those were preceded by Adolf Loos' buildings (as early as 1910) and probably by others.

[@OverbiteGames]

Hope all of the glass is like 8 paned, UV light 100% stopped in its tracks, self-cleaning, acts like the Japanese glass stalls where it becomes opaque from the outside looking in as soon as someone is occupying the space, ect. You know. 50s stuff. Heat costs are so high that my partner and I live out of one bedroom in our home and use a space heater. The furnace is shut off at the breaker level. Our electric bill went from $430 a month to $150 a month during fall / winter. This home made of glass terrifies me financially 😂

[@bramhabruh]

imagine waking up at midnight in this house and seeing some weird light in the forest

[@wandat7275]

Or you see no weird light but the weird light sees you

[@CheekiTiki]

This house would be scary af at night lmao

[@dakoitcave817]

The McCormick House in Elmhurst Illinois is very similar to the Fanworth House. Also designed by Mies Va der Rohe. I walk by it almost every day, and been inside. It’s basically (what I can describe) as a what we call a “loft apartment” with only small sectioned walls separating one room from the next. Modern at the time, but an undesirable nuisance now. No personal space, no real privacy, and no muting of transmission of sound from one end to the other end of the unit.

[@tictonikfgh]

Ye you forgot the fact that this style came with its own set of problems, for example you have great view and lighting but at the same time try staying in this house in summer you will sweat like a pig and freeze to death in Winter so it had to have more solutions to figure out from the orientation of the windows...etc, simplistic Yes but Simplistic in every other way too.

[@captaincurd2681]

In reality, this kind of house is not cheap. The large glasses are very expensive. In most cases, it serves better as a second or holiday home.

[@paristo]

You think that someone would want to spend even more money to a house that isn't their primary house?

[@niggiethefirst2689]

@@paristo yep

[@jonathantan2469]

Not just that, glass is a poor insulator & heat inside easily escapes through it in the winter. In summer, it becomes a greenhouse.

[@overthetip]

Or a tool shed

[@overthetip]

​@@jonathantan2469 actually it's better in the winter than in the summer right because it acts as a greenhouse.

[@Stopfollowingmeplz8]

People don't see homes like this often for good reason

[@Flyingclam]

We gave up beauty for this vanity project

[@melc311]

modern architecture is a crime against humanity and i am completely serious when i say that.

[@zarasha2024]

Same, there is no beauty left in this world.

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

bring back the ornate and decorative

[@hofimastah]

Buildings for people to live in, not for architects to design for fame

[@TheAmericanCatholic]

@@hofimastah you can have both

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

Agreed. Art Deco and Art Nouveau were peak architecture.

[@bradleykurtz2605]

My man! Buildings to live in, not just survive in.

[@puyopop3085]

I love the comment. Also bring back skilled trademanship that is beautiful and actually lasts a long time.

[@claybowser698]

Stray cats would show up and use the space underneath as a giant litter box. My shop is a cargo container raised off the ground like this and cats come from miles just to do that. Skunks like it to.

[@wafflechick_]

From miles 😂

[@justicedemocrat9357]

That house is an absolute masterpiece that is absolutely gorgeous.

[@dindog22]

I bet it's freezing in the winter

[@dangerxox]

God the ornate buildings are so much nicer

[@Lkabss]

Huh. Personally, I've always found them stressful to look at. Too much texture for me I suppose. House design isn't great, though, I'll agree.

[@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal]

Most people agree, and 90% of post modern architects live in ornate pre 1930's houses. They build these monuments to their narcism for fun

[@OutsiderLabs]

Nicer to look at, but horrible to keep clean. We're not in an era of cheap servants doing menial tasks anymore

[@TessHKM]

​@@tomtacularim glad I'm not most people. Having bad taste sounds terrible.

[@pwnomega4562]

​@@Lkabss that my friend is what you call detail and craftsmenship.

[@A93ken]

A lifeless prison more than a house

[@Mikivli]

I like the house maybe the furniture could be more colorful lol

[@kingol4801]

This has more life to it than most concrete slabs and outdated old buildings out there.

[@JamesV1]

Has plenty of life to me, you’re really projecting onto a house?

[@chrisbeaudoin9818]

Full of life compared to suburbs

[@aquavitae3824]

Agreed ML

[@nicholasfield6127]

It's beautiful but not warm. I love the typical mid century modern as it mixes the warmth with the clean lines.

[@Red_Sutter]

It apparently made for a better art museum than a house

[@spencerpetersen4092]

“I want it designed like something from a trailer park, but instead of flimsy trailer walls, I want glass!”

[@lonestarr1490]

"I want mine to look like a shelf, like I'm literally just stored away in it like some piece of fleshy kitchen appliance."

[@SEIFER69]

"Not all change is progress."

[@justicedemocrat9357]

By definition all change is progress what are you babbling about?

[@YashasviPratap]

All change is progress, all progress is not improvement.

[@Samsaknight]

@@justicedemocrat9357How? I don’t think u would consider climate change progress

[@malaizze]

@@Samsaknightwe are “progressing” towards uninhabitability. It is progress, just to a bad end

[@aidanwoodward3975]

​@@justicedemocrat9357 Let me get this straight, all change is inherently good? Like climate change destroying stuff? Interesting Thats the dumbest thing I have ever heard and I've seen the stir fried rocks tictok trend

[@j0hncarp]

so this is the guy that started the trend of boring houses? everybody boo this man

[@alastairleith8612]

glosses over fact that the emergence of these technologies (extremely large continuous plate glass with total transparency, stronger steel than previously available, leaky flat roof designs pinched from Corb,…, large span steel reinforced concrete for roof structure) were the revolution less so than their deployment in the avant guard minimalist style. it’s not like for centuries, and eons, no architect though about this deployment of glass and steel pilar constructio, it’s like it wasn’t technologically possible.

[@bornagain5199]

I’m from Texas and that house would be super hot down here! Couldn’t afford the cooling bill and wouldn’t want to clean all those windows lol

[@CJusticeHappen21]

Not only is it totally impractical for everything I'd buy a house for, I'm pretty sure this is the house that gave us The Fountainhead.

[@followingtheroe1952]

Man of culture, thats what I was thinking of too

[@_jpg]

So the architect is theoretically responsible for two bad aspects of modern society...

[@joanig.7145]

It's ugly.

[@kernelsanderzz]

Yeah this sucks HARD

[@user-kv5lq9xm8c]

This house is actually amazing. It gives home invaders so many options to break in from

[@vadym8713]

and no place to hide because there are no fucking rooms!

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

If that's your concern, you can make the glass walls like an inch thick or more. In addition, there's glass you can make opaque on demand nowadays. If that's too contemporary and cheating, 2 way glass also works.

[@hobbabobba7912]

​@@OatmealTheCrazyOr you could skip all that work and buy a different, more conventional house.

[@shayshay8650]

​@@hobbabobba7912 Someone could still break into your house.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

My first thought is just how vulnerable I'd feel in that home. It would only work if it had... 1 ) Extra thick hard tempered glass. Think bullet proof. 2) That glass is the type where I can turn it see through or opaque. Using an electric current for polarization or however it is done. 3) Heated roofs. Or else a flat roof would not work where I live since we have snow. The last thing I want to do after a blizzard is get up on a roof, and shovel feet of snow or ice off it. That would be terrible. Homes are supposed to be secure, and functional. They are supposed to make you feel safe. I think some architects forget this. Think this house was made for a nudist who wants the world to see their gonads.

[@paulomelettilestrade]

The difference between revolutionary and utterly stupid is just in the name of the architect. This house and that one road city in Saudi Arabia are proof of it.

[@rexxbailey2764]

😂😂😂😂 TRUE! 😆😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vadym8713]

well, I don't know anything about architecture and this house is stupid.

[@rexxbailey2764]

@@vadym8713 :😆😆🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂👍

[@charlottemajewski5992]

An ugly box with no privacy that will roast you to death in the summer.

[@antoniiocaluso1071]

hhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

[@DudeTotally1000]

You call it simple, I call it boring. My man made a rectangle.

[@lonestarr1490]

It's so boring, it appears to be 2-dimensional :D

[@HypeBeast764]

It's ok. There's a reason why poor people usually drive big flashy cars and wear outlandish clothes, it's cause they lack class. This house wasn't designed for the working class, it was designed for those on top of society, and its elegantly simple design accentuates the class status of individuals who would live there. In other words, you wouldn't understand.

[@DudeTotally1000]

@@HypeBeast764 I'd imagine you'd have to tell yourself that, if you spent a lot of money on a rectangle with windows.

[@notusneo]

​@@HypeBeast764 wow imagine being this pretentious

[@bronzejourney5784]

@@DudeTotally1000 I'd imagine you would say that if you were to be spending your every awake second worrying about trivial stuff like "money".

[@jhelp_the_fig]

Glad we can all agree this house is a glorified glass box

[@wilurbean]

More failed trash ideologies from the 70

[@rabeeajamil1403]

It broke the architecture and since then the architecture is broken. It was good because there was so much around it to absorb. But pls get rid of modernism in the urban surrounding

[@javierpacheco8234]

Ornament should have not been removed, I think ornament is important for giving beauty into our architecture. Humans always ornamented their buildings.

[@canadahigh]

🤣😆🤣

[@lonestarr1490]

@@canadahigh Tell me you're an architecture student without telling me you're an architecture student.

[@canadahigh]

@lonestarr1490 LOL Architecture, archeology, anthropology, human behaviour, survival on the landscape, parent, dog owner. One has to have time in which to ornament, contemplate, engage, interact....

[@Hiraghm]

This reminds me of a line from "From the Earth to the Moon". They're debating where to land on the moon, and finally one astronaut asserts that they should land on the apenines because they had "grandeur". Dave Scott: ...but, also... also the Apennines have something else... Grandeur. And I believe there's something to be said for... exploring beautiful places... It's good for the spirit. Living in beautiful places is good for the spirit, too.

[@justicedemocrat9357]

If you need ornaments to bring beauty and meaning to your life then you don't don't need ornaments you need a therapist.

[@HovektheArtist]

As a kid: man that's cool As an adult: God all that glass would be a pane to keep clean

[@tscimb]

badum-tss 😆

[@davebutler3905]

Love the written pun! Dad joke rule!

[@bladester9087]

House is built "Good news everyone"

[@efrainromero3959]

Soulless house, where is the good architecture anymore 😢

[@ericcaissie9137]

This house looks like Google's privacy policy

[@cappie2000]

haha, ok, that made me chuckle.. however, you still can't find out who I am, so it's not all that bad :)

[@TheLetsComment]

you know it's modern art when a child could draw it

[@resurgingflame]

Depends on the child. Like what age & their natural ability. My 7 year old nephew can't draw shit like this at all😂😂

[@aubreypressley1450]

I think you really really don't know what modernism is as an art movement. Did you know Faulkner and Hemingway were modernists?

[@kintex6441]

Not a huge fan of modernism, but If you don't know about art, your opinion doesn't mean much.

[@halguy5745]

I can assure you a child can't draw a floorplan. also yiur definition qualifies most prehistoric and medieval art as modern art

[@resurgingflame]

@@halguy5745 right. These people be saying anything 😂

[@JayBee-SydAus]

Bad idea… no safety…. No practicality… expensive ongoing maintenance… for example, Who will regularly clean these enormous glass panels / panes?

[@Yamsauce]

Absolute crap

[@lr6477]

The beginning of the "ugly is beauty" era. Now we know who to blame

[@charlottewolery558]

You need to look up Le Coubie. I think I misspelled that. He wanted to trear down Paris in the 1920s and replace it all with the forerunner of projects. The dude was pure evil and his acolytes run nearly every architecture school in the west.

[@Valeria.222.]

Honestly

[@timonschneider6290]

I mean everyone is entitled to an opinion but you are wrong.. haha

[@thinkbank8709]

who?

[@samael5552]

Minimalism is a lot older

[@sittingstill3578]

I think _Steward Hicks_ covered this piece too in his video “Why Do Architects Insist on Using Flat Roofs?”

[@mandowarrior123]

Socialists have a fundamental lack of grip on reality. Same reason they insist on cantilevered concrete slab.

[@tw8464]

Love that house such beautiful views connected with nature and simple layout. Great for light great for plants easy seeing easy moving around easy moving the furniture for different needs great for kids. It's an elegant functional house for living

[@jaibruce777]

Architecture is strength, function and beauty. If you lack one, then it's not architecture but just merely an art or piece of structure.

[@pufflis4588]

As someone with light sensitivity who hates open floor plans, this is my nightmare house

[@botandrew1]

*"Privacy has left the room"*

[@benzell4]

Frank Lloyd Wright is due homage here. He revolutionized this concept first, by about 50 years.

[@marcd7332]

Why so many Ai images