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Introducing the visionaries who turn houses into works of art When architecture hits the news, it’s usually with the big cultural buildings, the starchitect blockbusters: museums, concert halls and cultural sites with iconic complexes. Houses are confined to the style pages of the mainstream media – aspirational stage sets for impossible lifestyles. But the house is the hardest of all buildings, the most private and the most intimate. The house is the embodiment of a life and an almost sacred task. It cannot be a symbol like a museum or a skyscraper, it has more dimensions and more depth than architecture merely as a single statement. These architects have built some of the most remarkable, but also most liveable and beautiful houses of recent years. The architects span Switzerland to São Paulo via Tokyo and embrace radically different lifestyles, landscapes and street scenes. Yet they all design sophisticated, stripped-back, elegant structures, which do not dictate the rhythms and patterns of the day and night, but accommodate the way people live in actual life.
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His most recent dwelling, the Raumplan House in Madrid (2015), looks similarly simple but reveals a complexity that owes much to the Viennese architect Mr Loos.
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It seems eccentric because every architect, you’d think, dreams of creating the ideal house, a pure object emerging from their visionary imagination.
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Mr Tuckey's own family home, the Collage House, is the perfect illustration of his philosophy.
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A craftsman and an engineer as much as an architect, Mr Tom Kundig makes remarkable houses, which somehow embody an American frontier spirit.
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That window is an industrial-style wall of steel-framed glass, which pivots outwards like a garage door to open the whole house to the lake.
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Mr Kundig’s designs bear traces of the horizontality of Mr Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie architecture, as well as more modernist influences, yet he melds them into an instantly recognisable and seductively individual language.
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With some architects, you may get nervous. Mr Weinfeld, you feel, it will be fine.
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On the other, it looks down on the skyline as an urbane – and determinedly urban structure.
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There is very little of the culture of restoring or adapting older properties familiar from Western cities.
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Its houses are equally seductive and always surprising.
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