From delightful aesthetic expression under constraints, to... theoretical architecture made real. Architect John Hejduk was known for "a profound interest in the fundamental issues of shape, organization, representation, and reciprocity". His Wall House #2 was built - posthumously, nearly 3 decades after it was designed - outside the city of Groningen, in the Netherlands.
The residential rooms of the house are all on one side of the large wall, on different levels. To go from one floor to another, you have to use the stairs - on the other side of the wall.The first time I learned of this home, it gave me a sense of child-like joy. How great it is that such an imaginative, yet theory-driven home got built.
