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New House Architecture
What
is it about single-house architecture that so
excites designers and magazine editors the world
over? Like many publications on architecture and
design, hinge annually devotes an issue to the
subject, and looks forward to putting it together.
There’s just something about this building
type that seems elemental to the field of architecture,
and almost fundamental to the human psyche –
as if all the complexity, meanings, references,
complications, problems and solutions bound up
in the building arts could be filtered down to
a single, modestly scaled volume. The process
of simplification implicit in house design is
appealing in the same way most minimising, editorialising
acts are; it suggests reducing things to their
core, as if we could get closer to the ‘soul’
of a thing. We like it in art, in music, in literature,
in clothing, so why not buildings?...more
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