OMFGROFL This is an awesome find. As someone who was an architectural consultant for 10 years, and whose sister is an architect, and whose name has been on the blueprints for not one, not two, but five AIA award-winning structures, these "dwellings" are a veritable laundry list of everything that's wrong with "contemporary" architecture. "Contemporary" being the buzzword finally settled on when "post-modern" "brutalist" and "neobrutalist" finally fell by the wayside. I love that "modern" describes buildings between 60 and 100 years old. Some of these are honestly laugh-out-loud funny. Most of them are a 1st-year design student's interpretation of a case study house. The katamari damacy glob in the woods and the Jenga box, on the other hand, are architecture the way Soulja boy is rap. It's satire so completely overtly ironic that it's gone beyond self-aware, past self-ironic and self-flagellating and looped back around into a singularity of self-mockery. BRB spamming ex-coworkers
con·tem·po·rar·y 1. living or occurring at the same time. 2. belonging to or occurring in the present. How the hell did you come to the conclusion that contemporary is a buzzword? If anything its the proper name for current architecture. Every architectural movement you named is historical, thus the name. Can't have a name that sums up the movement if it hasn't run its course yet can you? All the designs were done probably done for free, like every other architectural competition, so I agree that they are shit, but your complete ignorance of the realities of the projects just to put down the post doesn't help anybody.
Whatevs, yo. Having been on design teams for Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, Miller Hull and Mahlum, I can confidently say that I have no obligation to "help anybody" when I see a catastrophe parading as vision. By the way, every architectural style was "contemporary" at one point or another. Most of them happened to be something else too.