December was an odd offbeat month. One of my least favorite offbeat posts, as in, not one of the better houses I’ve shown here, shocked me by becoming massively popular (it still is), and with the holidays, it got busy, so of course I threw a random contest. So, yeah, it was a wacky month, but I did find my four favorite posts, which include…
Robert Bruno Steel House – sort of one of those perfectly offbeat homes.

Impractical Architecture – Specht Harpman has done so much wonderful stuff not to mention the zero house, it’s hard not to list them as …read more

The other day when I showed the zeroHouse I mentioned that I like other designs from Specht Harpman better. First off I should say that any architect firm who has a structure category entitled, “Impractical” is worth a good look.
The most interesting impractical item to see is Specht Harpman’s Psychoplex; which is as odd as it sounds.

This Psychoplex is an imaginary theme park. The University of Texas at Austin has a newsletter bit about Psychoplex that puts what’s going on here into context. During a presentation of their work in the first Austin-based Pecha Kucha program back in May of …read more