Modern architecture homes

It depends.

I don't really live that way but could have fun trying (OP's pic)

I love the pool.

Nice to look at; would hate living in one.

Would LOVE living in this. Need more pictures!

R5, the link has other photos of the property.

Love it!

No, that’s what I meant, R6. Even the article in the link needs more pictures of interior.

Yes, oh please yes.

R8, ahh! I agree -- I would like to see some more photos of the interior.

It's a beautiful fantasy.

I would install screen doors.

I love it although I'm not sure how practical it is. I'm assuming it's located in a warm climate.

It's in Colombia, R12.

Love it. I’ve been in a traditional in the Northeast for a while and have loved historic homes with good architecture. But spending a lot of time in CA, I really want a modern house. Ow. But they are really rare in much of the Northeast. It feels like 90% of housing is a traditional center hall colonial. Very little modern - except maybe NYC suburbs. Glass and views with modern functionality is my Dream. I would build something interesting - or even some of those great prefab modern things - but can’t afford.

Beautiful.

It would drive me insane

It's nice but I really love this desert home from the same site.

I've always wanted a pool like that one.

One word....

I like this modern house.

Some of them look austere though.

You see more of it as you travel east towards Mercer Island and you really are on display - but, so is everyone else.

PSA from Reductress:

Some of them are over the top.

I like modern apartments. Given an entire modern house, designs get too creative. I appreciate the constraints that apartments put on modern architecture.

I like this, wherever it's at.

This one is a no

It’s a fine line with be able to feel cozy and not...Arthur Erickson the great late Canadian architect spider some where you still felt sublimely cozy..I got to tour his work in the Vancouver area and my fav was one in which he lived.

^ did some

I love it, OP. I wonder how much a home like that sells for in Colombia?

R29, me too. It doesn't say, but I imagine it's expensive for Colombian standards -- which is to say, probably still a steal in $USD.

It looks like my dream vacation home.

It looks more like a covered porch than a house.

I like the outdoor bed with the mountain view.

R32 Down in those sticky climates you have tiles on the floor and the kitchens are in a room without walls.

(I don't know how you keep out the mosquitoes, tarantulas, brigands and marauding poor people)

It’s at 1963, R25.

The Case Study Houses, for r25.

No, not at all, but each to their own

This is much more me

I live in a very modern home. Tons of glass. Tall ceilings. I absolutely love the sense of light and air and openness. Once you get used to that feeling, it would be a difficult one to break.

I grew up in a place with four seasons, so I can never really imagine living in one those open, hard-to-heat- modernist places. But I do like looking at them.

What is the furniture with the pillow on it in this pic?

[quote](I don't know how you keep out the mosquitoes, tarantulas, brigands and marauding poor people)

That's always my first question when I see houses with so much outdoor space open to the interior. What about all the creepy-crawlies that inhabit warm locations?

I love the looks of these houses but I don't think I could live in one -- all those glass walls and unenclosed spaces would make me feel very exposed. I suppose you get used to it, though.

Hard to imagine New Yorkers being able to adjust to the openness of the modern homes, since they are used to living like this.

Does Palm Springs have a lot of these style of homes?

Am I the only one (apart from Mrs. Alfred Steele) who hates having living spaces flooded with natural light because, no matter how clean you think you keep the place, direct sunlight illuminates every single dust molecule? Drives me insane. One month in a modernist window-walled house and I'd need to be institutionalized.

(Not to mention the UV rays are hell on fabrics.)

R17, I love that house! Living in the desert could be harsh and challenging though.

Is this home for real?

This one is pretty out there.

LA is full of these homes apparently.

Director Michael Bay's house.

In theory, modern post and beam construction would allow you to reconfigure living areas as needs change, but you never hear about owners doing this - it’s either a museum or a tear down. Adding an extra bath requires way more consideration than designers intended.

Phoenix has a lot of this stuff too.

This one is huge.

Cape Cod style.

Germany.

I loathe modern design. All of it looks fake and plastic. A house should have character, its architecture should tell a story. All of these post-modern houses look like each other and are huge eyesores. Geometric designs don’t equal interesting architecture.

I always wonder how these precariously designed geometric houses with post-modern designs like R46 fare during LA earthquakes and fires.

R40 It may be a hammock. I have a normal canvas hammock in my fabulous garden and I find it it wonderfully relaxing.

But R40 looks like an inflexible one made of plastic or woven cane, perhaps.

My favorite is a streamlined deco in cities such as Shanghai, Cairo, Tel Aviv. I also like Bauhaus/Heimat.

A floating home in Seattle.

R60, the place is over run by *looks left, looks right* those fucking otters shitting all over the place, fucking up everything their little mitts encounter.

Villa Nurbs Castelló d'Empúries Girona, Spain

Daytime view Villa Nurbs

Gorgeous. But i would never live in OP's post Too cold and and uncomortable looking.

I've always thought Hugh Newell Jacobson's 1988 Life Magazine house was a nice example of a warmer modern home. It was a distillation of Cape Cod architecture, with gabled roofs and paned windows at the front and at the back is all plate glass. It's been built many times, but I think the purest and best way to do it is as simple as possible. Stucco siding, maybe a wood roof. Some of the ones that have been built veer to Colonial in nature.

One of the bets things about LA is modern residential architecture. It’s the one reason to live there in my opinion. You just can’t get that as abundantly on the East Coast - or the South really. LA is modern architecture heaven - for the US.

R65 I had never seen that house. Thank you. I like all the ways one can vary it up. I can't find an interior photo of a version that is done with a 2nd floor.

Another interesting modern home in Colombia.

Pretty crazy beach house in Peru. I hope that hill is not prone to erosion.

South America does seem to Have some great modern architecture. Interestingly, South Texas new developments tend to be very modern too. Rather than McMansions they make cool modern minimalist boxes. For like $200 thousand - cheap.

R70, I like the look of this one in South Texas.

[quote] You just can’t get that as abundantly on the East Coast

I get the sense that much of the east coast has more stringent building codes? LA is kind of a free-for-all, which is why you'll probably see a variety of different styles of homes often on the same block.

R67, there is no second floor on any of them, it's all gloriously open. Jacobsen's work is unusual for a lot of modern architects in how warm and cozy it actually feels, even though almost everything he does is white. He's been an undersong modernist for many years. I'd like to see a full-scale retrospective of his work. Actually, R72, California has even stricter building codes than the East Coast, mainly because of seismic issues. Since the East Coast was settled hundreds of years earlier than the west, the long-established building traditions had become deeply ingrained. Colonials are the Holy Grail for the average homebuyer. Contemporaries are a tougher sell, due to climate and just being outside the box. Cliff May's informal ranch style that spread through California like a wildfire (sorry, best way to describe it) It was a different way of living. The indoor/outdoor connection year-round isn't as practical in many parts of the United States. Also, people who migrated to California from the East largely chucked a lot of the old traditions opting for something new and fresh.

Merida, Mexico

r70 - Here you go. Mid-century modern rival - back when they envisioned affordable homes for growing families. Although the best examples were outside the price point of most people. Sunken living room, conversation pits, breezeways - very expensive. But there was philosophy behind it. Not so with contemporary architecture, it is austere, cold, like the persons who live in them.

There something about retro-futurism: The future as imagined in the past that is so nostalgic in our sad times. Back then the future was imagined as a communal affair - the future of mankind. Now, not so much.

There's still a future, just not for everyone.

There's is a future, but not for all us.

R75, it’s still a Car Culture House - living space thrown down next to the pool. The suburban escape can’t continue. It’s too much lawn.

No, those modern buildings that survive urban renewal (nicely provided by r59) present a great refined function. The style was mimicked in many public works projects.

My favorite bastardizations are Midwestern utility buildings and state park structures. You find machined structures with so many hand-crafted details. It’s a fun argument.

I like them - I like the simplicity I so crave at this point in my life - but my hypothesis is that the whole modern thing will run it's course and people will be "what in heck was I thinking?" It just takes on hip designer to be showcased in Architectural Digest that has raided grandma's attic and we will be back into "antiquing." It all goes in cycles - Lucy went from frumpy to modern in her NYC apartments and back to colonial when she moved to CT. It all goes in cycles - designed to keep retail moving.

As a designer, I think anyone smart is doing a few things. Living modern means stripping down. Keep the important things that mean something. Good art. These can be repros. Antique and modern. Supplement with good old and new. Walmart out of all places is selling a cheap-ass good looking modern dining table I am surrounding with antique chairs. The mix of high and low is important, especially in modern living. Form is more important than pedigree. Anyone with good taste has rarely been gifted with boatloads of money.

Good points R78. Agree - Walmart has some great modern pieces. And you can get some great cool pieces cheaply - Wayfair, etc. But great art and some classic pieces are things you can take from house to house - modern or traditional.

Buckwalter house has 3 stories. And maybe a basement?

Wow thanks R80. I didn’t know anything about the house or High Newell Jacobsen. Just my style - classic and modern. And he did Jackie’s house on MV. Love it.

R65 and R67 - check this out - a Pinterest board dedicated to Jacobsen's Life Dream House:

Hugh Newell Jacobsen gets it. I’m sure he is super expensive - but would love to build a place by him. Realize he has done a lot in mid-Atlantic area - maybe it’s something about the mix of historical structures and desire for modern but it really works for me,

Thanks, R82, it looks interesting.

Right on R78. Read an article a while ago - said basically don't chase trends - do what YOU like and it will never be out of date. If you don't like gray don't paint your whole f'ing house gray only to have to change it because Pantone says its out.