Architect Homes: Jacques Brownson & Bruno Conterato
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It’s always interesting to think about the houses that architects create for themselves as one would assume they represent everything they believe in as designers and builders. Arriving in the United States in 1938, German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe advocated a design philosophy that a building and its materials were purely an expression of its specific era, “architecture…can only express this civilization we are in and nothing else.” Two of his students would take that lesson to heart.
Architect Homes: Jacques Brownson & Bruno Conterato
Architect Homes: Jacques Brownson & Bruno…
Architect Homes: Jacques Brownson & Bruno Conterato
It’s always interesting to think about the houses that architects create for themselves as one would assume they represent everything they believe in as designers and builders. Arriving in the United States in 1938, German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe advocated a design philosophy that a building and its materials were purely an expression of its specific era, “architecture…can only express this civilization we are in and nothing else.” Two of his students would take that lesson to heart.