Description
A Seattle architect’s speculations on how architectural varieties―from chapels to lighthouses―narrate reminiscence and loss
Seattle-based totally architect Robert Hutchison’s Memory Houses is a venture that investigates mortality and reminiscence throughout the lens of Structure.
Speculatively located along the banks of the Wye River at the Jap Shore of Maryland the place the architect grew up, architectural typologies akin to living, chapel, lighthouse and memorial weave in combination a spatial narrative approximately loss and recollection. Far away in addition to extra up to date architectural reminiscences make cameo appearances within the reminiscence homes: the stave church buildings of Norway and the Nice Mosque of Córdoba that Hutchison skilled as a kid; the lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay; the wood grain elevators of the Palouse; the Colosseum and the Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.
This e-newsletter, with a sizzling-stamped duvet and finish sheets revealed with Hutchinson’s designs, files the 8 homes that contain the Memory Houses venture, along constructed homes designed by way of Hutchison’s Seattle-based totally company Robert Hutchison Structure.
