The short answer to Milly's recent question is yes... there's fewer walls to bounce off. I'd love to post some more pics of our home online, but the tiny stone yurt still needs so much attention. Here's an exterior view from 1935; a well-cropped shot of the interior; another rundhaus in Aalen, Germany; and The Round Building in Derbyshire (ostensibly a factory), designed by Michael Hopkins for David Mellor in 1990.
The latter's circularity isn't entirely void of symbolic content; it's interesting to note that, eschewing the prevalent C20 trend for Fordism, Mellor encouraged his metal workers to "rotate from task to task, increasing job satisfaction through a sense of involvement in the project as a whole".[1]
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We went to A La Ronde near Exmouth last week and it was quite odd. H x
Wow, I'd not heard of it before... just saw the slideshow on the National Trust website. Certainly, it's odd but beautiful too, no? Something about it puts me in mind of Balthus' house, The Grand Chalet, at Rossinière. Anyhow, hope you're all doing good. x
It was quite brilliant and mad. Some of the decorations were amazing - walls pasted with feathers and shells. However, Joe the architect thought that it monstrous, a second year architecture student project that should never have been built.
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Mmm still sounds interesting to me, though it must be frustrating for Joe; having knowledge and striving to make practical, affordable, functional buildings and then have everyone effervesce about some esoteric historical folly. Sort of like being a serious modern artist when the public prefer Banksy, or maybe like being a nutritionist when... you get the picture.
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