Otherothers' "Offset House" Reveals the Architecture Hidden in Suburban Homes

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In the classic film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and friends manage to obtain a visit with the great and powerful wizard, who appears to them as an enormous, grotesque head, surrounded by smoke and flames, with a booming voice and a hostile demeanor. But when Toto pulls back the curtain, the wizard’s true nature is revealed, and it is only then that he is able to help the gang get the help for which they journeyed many miles down the yellow brick road. In architecture today, suburban houses share many of the characteristics of the wizard’s illusion: large, stand-offish and intimidating. But what if there is a more benevolent architecture hidden behind the smoke and flames? This is the thesis of Australian firm Otherothers' Offset House, on display now at the Chicago Architecture Biennale.

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Cite: Patrick Lynch. "Otherothers' "Offset House" Reveals the Architecture Hidden in Suburban Homes" 12 Nov 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/777051/otherothers-offset-house-reveals-the-architecture-hidden-in-suburban-homes> ISSN 0719-8884

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