ARMED with a stack of house-listing printouts from Craigslist.com, a popular website, Paul Rademacher was driving around Silicon Valley late last year looking for a place to live.
Part of that collection will now be displayed in the VitraHaus, which was conceived as what Jacques Herzog, co-founder of Herzog & de Meuron, describes as "a stack of houses".
Part of that collection will now be displayed in the VitraHaus, which was conceived as what Jacques Herzog, co-founder of Herzog & de Meuron, describes as "a stack of houses". It consists of a dozen or so replicas of the sort of archetypal gabled homes that a child might draw, literally stacked on top of each other.
The other new photos include a stack of houses wedged between two cliffs, so that if one were removed they would all topple, and a portrait of an architect drawing, in which he looks like part of an architectural rendering.
Like the Mountain, it is not an exotic shape into which apartments have been jammed; it's quite legibly a stack of salable housing units.
He acknowledges it's harder to achieve in a large organisation where rules and regulations dictate, but "some of the ideas and feelings we are dealing with are transferable in how we are trying to look at the spaces and that art of care... [Our design for Guy's] only has five floors, built like a stack of individual houses.
Would they, without such a substratum be just a stack of qualities, a house of cards with nothing holding them together?
He also made us an exclusive mix with a stack of excellent old house tracks that existed a decade or so before he was born, as well as blending in some fresh New Zealand talent.
Having defined a new way to look at a plain black striped canvas or a stack of bricks or tract housing, Minimalism established that art could require our conscious assimilation of it as such: place bricks in a gallery and turn them into something else, sculptural objects, with weight, color and shape, defining the room, if we choose to see them that way.
Imagine a future where you go into a grocery store to buy some fresh basil, and, as you traverse the aisle, instead of polythene bags containing mass-produced snippets of the herb that have been flown in from thousands of miles away, in front of you are a stack of illuminated containers, each housing a mini basil farm.
Sheffield recalls her social worker and supervisor coming over to Ms. Lisa's house with a stack of papers for her to sign shortly after her 19th birthday, and within months of her baby being born.
