New Japanese architecture

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So what is your ideal house? Architecturally speaking.

I thought about this, and I'm not sure I have an ideal house as such. In a sense that I don't have this standard of ideal to which I hold a house in order to be acceptable to me. I like a lot of different buildings, many of which are different architectural styles, and built for different functions. And I like them all, and would be capable of optimizing/restructuring them to my own purposes if necessary.

I could make a home of a defunct airport, if I had to, and if I liked the structure. (Although I strongly prefer smaller houses/buildings for a private home).

Any room/space has its own drawbacks, but very few are actually such that they've become unusable.

Some of those Japanese short-term residences are very pleasing to me. A lot of contemporary Western architecture looks good in my opinion. But I equally like the palazzi from the 18th-19th century, French castles from the 16th (Château de Chambord is one of my favorites), the Victorian architecture in the US has many pleasant examples (they're very homey, and they hold their charm)... I could equally live in any of those houses there and it would be an 'ideal' for me. (This is not to say that every house of is good for me, I have likes and dislikes. Some of the houses I can't stand to look at. The aesthetic aspect is very important to me, but it's impossible for me to give a reasoning on why I like one structure, and not another. I don't know why I like the things I do. I just know if I like something or not. It comes down to taste).

There is no one ideal. Pretty much all architectural styles have pleasing expressions, and all can be redone in one's own image. It's all space, in the most fundamental meaning. And as long as that space is not despotic* (i.e. an absolute space, space that does not conform to its inhabitants, instead of the other way around) I can make pretty much any space work for myself. It's a function of how myself and the space come together.

What about you? Answer the same question.



*An example of despotic space, in my opinion, is a cathedral. There's very little you can do with/in that space. It does not conform to you, you have to conform to it. And I can't do that.