Ramón Esteve Estudio, Cottage in the Vineyard, Fontanars dels Alforins, Spain, 2017
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Juliaan Lampens, House for the Architect’s Sister, Gavere, Belgium, 1968 (via dujardin)
There has to be this kind of combination of prospect and refuge with a dwelling. Either you have to understand the world around you, and feel protected—eyes on the world. ... In a way, we think, I would say, a house is not a house without focus. Charles Moore talked about the aspects of a room. Enclosure, light, focus. What makes a house a house is a sense of being centered in the world and a totemic element like a hearth or a kitchen island. There has to be this sense of centering-ness about a house.
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Armin Blasbichler Studio, Muslhaufen House, Lüsen, Italy, 2008 (via wett)
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Archier, Sawmill House, Yackandandah, Australia, 2015 (via architorture)
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I would leave everything here: the valleys, the hills, the paths, and the jaybirds from the gardens, I would leave here the petcocks and the padres, heaven and earth, spring and fall, I would leave here the exit routes, the evenings in the kitchen, the last amorous gaze, and all of the city-bound directions that make you shudder, I would leave here the thick twilight falling upon the land, gravity, hope, enchantment, and tranquility, I would leave here those beloved and those close to me, everything that touched me, everything that shocked me, fascinated and uplifted me, I would leave here the noble, the benevolent, the pleasant, and the demonically beautiful, I would leave here the budding sprout, every birth and existence, I would leave here incantation, enigma, distances, inexhaustibility, and the intoxication of eternity; for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me from here, because I've looked into what’s coming, and I don’t need anything from here.
László Krasznahorkai, "On Leaving," c. 2000 (via mythofblue)