Editorial: palaces for people
- 17 July 2019
- London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
There are the houses that architects designed for themselves. Originally an extension, the Santa Monica house not only spearheaded Frank Gehry’s career, many argue it was also his first statement on Deconstructivism. Only a few kilometres away, the Eameses built the house – the one house – that encapsulates their way of thinking, seeing, and being in the world. There are also the houses that architects designed for others. Le Corbusier’s top-heavy Villa Savoye is a built manifesto, the physical embodiment of his Five Points of Architecture, while Rem Koolhaas/OMA’s Maison à Bordeaux is a more literal ‘machine for living’. Designed as three houses in one, each stacked on top of the other, sliding floors and moving walls are brought to life on screen with Guadalupe Acedo’s cleaning routine.