Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick | Anupama Kundoo | Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky | João Batista Vilanova Artigas | Laurie Simmons | Kochi Architects Studio | Ekar Architects | Atelier Tho.A | Chat Architects | Fernanda Canales Arquitectura | Brillhart Architecture
AR December 2022/January 2023
You do not have to be an architect to create architecture. We are all the architects of our environments and we are constantly making and remaking the spaces we live in. The teabags in perfect reach of the kettle, the armchair bathed in 11am sun, a perfectly arranged shelf of unread books, and the messy stacks of their dog-eared counterparts: the home tracks our habits, our tastes and our everyday lives. Sam Johnson-Schlee describes this as the ‘detritus of life’ in this issue’s keynote, likening homes to dreaming in the way they are ‘the gathering together of bits and pieces by the unconscious to try to meet the latent desires of the dreamer’. It’s rare to be able to realise the home of your dreams, but in the hands of an architect, the results can be remarkable: unique to the house’s inhabitants and questioning both what a house is, and how we should live in it. This issue revisits four such houses, as well as celebrating the shortlisted projects of the 2022 AR House awards, featuring innovative and intriguing dwellings from Mexico, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and the Bahamas.
The architect’s house + AR House
Keynote: Room of one's own, Sam Johnson-Schlee
Reputations: Laurie Simmons, Maria Gil Ulldemolins
Revisit: Cosmic House, London, United Kingdom. Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick with Terry Farrell, Catherine Slessor
Revisit: Wall House, Auroville, India, Anupama Kundoo, A Srivathsan
Revisit: Franzensgasse 16, Vienna, Austria, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Gwendolen Webster
Revisit: Casinha and Residência Vilanova Artigas II, São Paulo, Brazil, João Batista Vilanova Artigas, Francesco Perrotta-Bosch
Outrage: Architectural workers in precarious housing, Marianela D’Aprile
AR House awards shortlist
Winner: Yuka to Tenjo, Tokyo, Japan, Kochi Architect's Studio, Nancy (Yao) Ji
Highly Commended: Dog/Human House, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, Ekar Architects, Pirasri Povatong
Highly Commended: House 101, Hô Chí Minh City, Vietnam, Atelier Tho.A, Hiêu Y
Commended: Sala Areeya, Bangkok, Thailand, Chat Architects, Pirasri Povatong
Commended: Casa Eva, Ocuilan, Mexico, Fernanda Canales Arquitectura, Suleman Anaya
Commended: Brillhut, Eleuthera, the Bahamas, Brillhart Architecture, Beth Dunlop
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