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Boxes can be good: http://www.iaacblog.com/digitaltectonics/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/mies_farnsworth-house_blog.jpg http://www.iaacblog.com/digitaltectonics/

• yters 18y ago
  Indeed, I've nothing against boxes. I'm assuming your average buyer might be put off if all their housing options have the same shape, though.
• kingkongrevenge 18y ago
  You really think that looks good? Looks like living in a fish tank to me. One thing that I don't get about "modernist" home design is all the big multi-use rooms. I hate that. I like separate rooms. Notice how it would be very uncomfortable for two people to live in any of these places. No privacy. Also, many small rooms is energy efficient. Traditional English homes have a couple small rooms, with basically just enough room for two or three to sit around a very small fireplace or stove. Point being you can very efficiently heat just the small room. I think these big, open space rooms are trying to evoke traditional Japanese design. But because they don't have ceiling to floor shoji screens they miss the whole point. Shoji are used to break up the space, achieve privacy, and also only heat a small space contained in a box of screens.
  • randallsquared 18y ago
    "Notice how it would be very uncomfortable for two people to live in any of these places." Two unrelated people, maybe. A married couple wouldn't have any trouble (unless the marriage itself was having trouble, of course).