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Joost Meuwissen, ‘Primary_House’, Paul Toornend and Jelle Post, Untitled_Space. Translated by Mark Speer (Amsterdam: Architectura + Natura Press / August Kemme Foundation, Gaston Bekkers, 2005), 080-088.

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Primary House

Joost Meuwissen

Untitled Space can be seen as a “primary house”, as a categorical statement about what architecture is and what, mutatis mutandis, architecture therefore is not. This occurs in the customary form of a model-specific design for a small country house in which the living situation has been ...

Joost Meuwissen, 'Houses of desire'. [Translated from the Dutch by John Rudge,] Archis, 8.1993, August (Doetinchem: Misset Bouw, [1993]), 64-80.

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Houses of desire

Joost Meuwissen

A free-standing house can be an attractive assignment for an architect these days because no collectivity, nothing of discipline and punish needs to be expressed. Once thought through to the end, it can be a 'house with no style'[1], i.e. its style is both free and general and coincides with architecture as art. It can be ...

Study of a house with a garage, September, 1979.

Joost Meuwissen

A detached house never stands alone. It shares its space with minor architectures, such as playgrounds, barns, porches, swimming pools and garages. Adjacent to a detached house, the garage is conceived of as being just a wing mostly, following the same style as the one of the house but either protruding towards the street or pushed further back into the garden. If it is laid far back into the rear of the garden, it may ...