Walter Gropius | ZMMA | Juan O’Gorman | Jamie Fobert Architects | PUP Architects | Material Cultures | Domat | Manuel Cervantes Estudio | Atelier Luke | MOCT Studio | RADDAR | Pihlmann Architects
AR December 2023/January 2024
This issue showcases the projects included in this year’s AR House shortlist, from modular furniture for Hong Kong’s super-small flats, housing for Mexican rubber workers and vertical living in London, to three examples of retrofitted homes in Kyoto, São Paulo and Copenhagen. In the rest of the issue, we turn to the artist’s house – a type of home with a unique set of functions and associations. It can form a Gesamtkunstwerk – a large‑scale spatial representation of an entire creative world. It is also often fetishised and painstakingly preserved, and turned, eventually, into a tourist attraction after the inhabitant’s death. In the six revisits of artists’ homes featured in this issue, the myth of the artist – the aspirational figure of an autonomous and creatively fulfilled individual – lingers on long after they are gone.
The artist’s house + AR House
The artist’s house:
Keynote: Art house, Tom Wilkinson
Revisit: Meisterhaus Kandinsky/Klee by Walter Gropius in Dessau, Germany, Florian Heilmeyer
Revisit: Gainsborough’s House by ZMMA in Sudbury, UK, Kristina Rapacki
Revisit: Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo by Juan O’Gorman in Mexico City, Mexico, Suleman Anaya
Revisit: Charleston in Firle, UK, Eleanor Beaumont
Case study: Exhibition centre by Jamie Fobert Architects in Firle, UK
Case study: Outdoor stage by PUP Architects in Firle, UK
Case study: Charleston in Lewes by Material Cultures in Lewes, UK
Revisit: Melrose Plantation in Louisiana, US, Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez
AR House awards shortlist:
Winner: Modular furniture for subdivided units by Domat in Hong Kong, China, Jen Lam
Highly commended: Housing for rubber workers by Manuel Cervantes Estudio in Chiapas, Mexico, Ana Karina Zatarain
Commended: Terraced House by Atelier Luke in Kyoto, Japan, Danielle Demetriou
Commended: Small House by MOCT Studio in London, UK, Ellie Duffy
Commended: Itu House by RADDAR in São Paulo, Brazil, Rafael Urano Frajndlich and Guilherme Pianca
Commended: House 14a by Pihlmann Architects in Copenhagen, Denmark, Morten Birk Jørgensen
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