#ArchiTalks 24 "house" or "home"?

house

hous/

noun

noun: house; plural noun: houses; noun: house music; plural noun: house musics

1. a building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of people.

home

hōm/

noun

noun: home; plural noun: homes

1. the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.

I think a house is an architectural term while a home is a place.

Thirty years ago, U2 released their “album” “Joshua Tree”.  I remember it very well because as a “foreign” band had written lyrics and music about their interpretation of America and other places, I was an American living in a country that wasn’t my own.  I first saw the iconic image of the band in reference to what was then a California State Park as I passed it on my way to the architecture studio on the Stroget in Copenhagen.  Cassettes were pretty expensive there but I really wanted to listen to it, so I bought it.  I listened to the music travelling all over Europe.  It was some of the only music I knew when I returned.  I was essentially going back to the house i remembered, but it didn’t seem like home.

https://youtu.be/GzZWSrr5wFI

I have lived in 12 homes but only 8 houses, I have designed or been a part of the design of too many homes to count including apartments and vacation homes since 1983 (not including a couple I designed in my high school drafting classes, those are really interesting…).

With a client, I feel like I am designing for them and that it is a solution based on their needs, I am designing a house that is their home, especially in a remodel where you are changing their existing structure to accommodate a change in their life that they want to make.

With a spec house, it's a little different, I am basically designing a house that will be home to people who I have never met, so basically it is based on what I like and think that the plan would work on that site for anyone.  I am designing a home around the way that I live (but with accommodation for television sets) and it gets approval from the developer/contractor and it has to work financially so it is not everything that I would do but it works within the budget and what what he wants to physically build.

I have designed a "dream house" for myself  over the last year and a half and I am hoping that I can someday build it and actually live there.

Here are some photos and drawings of homes and houses that I have lived in during my lifetime and a sketch of one that I would like to eventually have. I am not including anywhere that I lived for less than 6 months, because I don't think that is a home, that is just a place where you slept and ate and bathed but never really called your own...

3129

1533

1304

3069

7875

856 apt E

5 2t.v.

516 apt ___

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1604

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I think everyone should be able to have a place that they can call their home,

everyone.

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