Architectural Award Winning Houses of 2010

—Jane F. Kolleeny, Architectural Record

Villa Vals, Vals, Switzerland

How does Record Houses reflect the times we are living in? This year, our criteria included simplicity, modesty, and sustainability, in keeping with today’s culture of restraint. Bearing these qualities in mind, the editors sifted through a diverse collection of more than 250 houses, then decided on seven. While most fulfill our criteria, each offers a richness of imaginative and organic design.

Tree House, Tokyo

Several of the houses portray vernacular building forms with idiosyncratic and innovative strategies. Mount Fuji Architects’ Tree House in Tokyo, which transforms the traditional Japanese timber-frame house, takes the form of a tree. While less emphatically radical, Qingyun Ma’s Well Hall in rural China is an up-to-date interpretation of the.......read more

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