Record Houses Live  

Exploring a cross-disciplinary approach to residential architecture

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Since 1956, the editors of RECORD have looked for houses that upend expectations, push disciplinary limits, and redefine established vocabularies in imaginative ways. This year’s selection showcases nimble responses to diverse landscapes. Forms and tectonics vary, too, from orthogonal compositions to radial ones, from a highly textural brick and stone residence to the latest version of a glass house. Every year, the house proves to be an inexhaustible laboratory for architectural exploration.

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Speaker

Lorcan O'Herlihy, FAIA leads LOHA, the award-winning architecture and urban design firm founded in 1994, now with offices in Los Angeles and Detroit. Collectively and collaboratively, driven by O'Herlihy's passion and creative vision, it has built a robust portfolio of work that is rooted in embracing architecture's role as a catalyst for change. With a conscious understanding that architecture operates within a layered context of political, developmental, environmental, and social structures, LOHA seeks to elevate the human condition via the built environment. It works with a diverse group of stakeholders to deliver work ranging from art galleries, bus shelters, and large-scale neighborhood plans, to large mixed-use developments, supportive housing, and university residential complexes. LOHA has built over 100 projects across three continents, been published in over 20 countries, and has been recognized with over 100 awards, including the AIA CC Distinguished Practice Award, the 2021 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal, and AIA Los Angeles Firm of the Year Award.

 

Angela Brooks, FAIA and Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, lead Brooks + Scarpa, a collective of architects, designers and creative thinkers dedicated to enhancing the human experience. Honored with the Smithsonian Cooper- Hewitt National Design Award, the firm is a multi-disciplinary practice that includes architecture, landscape architecture, planning, environmental design, materials research, graphic, furniture and interior design services that produces innovative, sustainable iconic buildings and urban environments. Angie and Larry are the recipients of the 2022 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, the institute’s highest honor.

   
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Max Worrell and Jejon Yeung founded Worrell Yeung in 2015. The practice synthesizes complex systems and needs into clear conceptual solutions that are precise and considered. Working across several scales and typologies—from adaptive reuse and public space to ground-up residential and cultural—it approaches every project as an opportunity to create work that is adaptable to the present climate, focused on function, and enduring. The Brooklyn-based firm is a 2022 Design Vanguard winner.


   

Originally published in Architectural Record

Originally published in August 2024

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  1. Discuss how the projects presented have used local, natural, or unconventional materials as a means of connecting to their sites and providing the houses with a strong sense of craft. For each project, describe the designer’s approach to detailing the intersections of various materials and connections between structural and architectural elements.
  2. Explain how each house has been sited and configured to optimize daylighting and ventilation and to capture views. 
  3. Discuss how the projects presented have reinterpreted vernacular and modern typologies.
  4. Discuss landscape strategies to make properties more resilient to wildfires or coastal erosion.