Comments on: House in Matinhal / ARX

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:23:37 +0000

nice house, not too good to walk on white I agree, and not too cool to partially block the sunset to the pool, put in on the south side of the house, overflowing towards the access ramp and you’re set.

By: 16:08:78

16:08:78 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:20:05 +0000

When does white become practical to walk on…!!!…….c’mon.

By: Opium

Opium — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:29:08 +0000

Shot through the heart/and your too late/you’re giving “Portuguese architecture” a bad name,bad name…lol this guys are very weak indeed…they are a disgrace in their attempt to copy Siza. Mike is right one of the mateus brothers did work in eiseman’s office…but then again…eiseman?another architect full inflated rethoric…We need to creat a kind of Sex Pistols architecture office…nevermind the bollocks here is architecture…go see zumthor or aires mateus or barrozi veiga or herzog and meuron(despite some weaker projects, but then again their all human with the exception of zumthor).

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PRIVATE » Blog Archive » HOUSE IN MATINHAL by ARX — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:37:31 +0000

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Casa de astazi #115 - House in Matinhal « O casa pe zi — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:23:11 +0000

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By: Preston

Preston — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:25:26 +0000

Google Le Corbusier’s “Maison Citrohan” project. This isn’t “Portugese” any more than the pizza hut down the road. These forms were being proposed in 1922!

By: simon

simon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:56:01 +0000

Mike – just shows what wonderful architecture, beautiful clean lines, great photography and a perfect day can lead to.

By: jjjetplane

jjjetplane — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:10:42 +0000

mike: the photography undoubtedly heightens the supposed impact of this architecture. much has been written on the same sort of effect that emilio ambasz had on the reception of barragan’s work.

unlike you, i’m a big fan of siza’s early work, and see a lot of his ideas at play in the program layout. siza’s contemporary work seems to have influenced the interior detailing, as well.

in spite of its possible shortcomings, this is one sexy, crisp residential design, conceived with the sort of mediterranean restraint that spaniards and portuguese totally have down cold.

and, yes, kanye will surely feature this on his blog at some point. it’s too slick for him to overlook.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:29:37 +0000

Mike, I believe you’re commenting on the wrong project. You can find an Ilhavo Library post here on ArchDaily. Still, Probably you were unfortunate enough to be there on a not so sunshiny day, and didn’t like it… I can’t blame you, I’ve been there as well and it isn’t perfect, especially on some of the materials. But I guess we can do nothing but to be desillusioned if we have such a personal notion of what’s “contemporary”, and if what we’re looking for here is Eisenman’s influence (why not Libeskind’s, by the way?) Besides, the building was only completed in 2005, so don’t worry about your age, I’m sure you’re not so old now.

By: evasèe » house in matinhal / arx

evasèe » house in matinhal / arx — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:51:29 +0000

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