Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
There’s been a recent popular interest in and adoption of an aesthetic born from agrarian retreats called cottagecore. It harkens back to the days of Laura Ingalls Wilder and other simpler times of settlers, pioneers, and traditional European settlements. Cottagecore includes flowers, woods, warm tones, thatched roofs, worn furniture, and other objects and motifs associated with country living. The restorative power of cottages and retreats has long been recognized, but their popularity and renewed interest coincides with the pandemic as our lives are marked by excessive time spent indoors and communicating solely through electronic mediums. This video looks closely at the architecture of cottagecore, specifically Heidegger’s hut, and other buildings considered within phenomenology, and compares them to the Storybook Style homes built in California during the 1920s.
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There’s been a recent popular interest in and adoption of an aesthetic born from agrarian retreats called cottagecore. It harkens back to the days of Laura Ingalls Wilder and other simpler times of settlers, pioneers, and traditional European settlements. Cottagecore includes flowers, woods, warm tones, thatched roofs, worn furniture, and other objects and motifs associated with country living. The restorative power of cottages and retreats has long been recognized, but their popularity and renewed interest coincides with the pandemic as our lives are marked by excessive time spent indoors and communicating solely through electronic mediums. This video looks closely at the architecture of cottagecore, specifically Heidegger’s hut, and other buildings considered within phenomenology, and compares them to the Storybook Style homes built in California during the 1920s.
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Architecture with Stewart is a YouTube journey exploring architecture’s deep and enduring stories in all their bewildering glory. Weekly videos and occasional live events breakdown a wide range of topics related to the built environment in order to increase their general understanding and advocate their importance in shaping the world we inhabit.
__About Me__
Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture.
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![Exploring the LOST House of the Future [Smithsons]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sx8fDeYfalY/mqdefault.jpg "Exploring the LOST House of the Future [Smithsons]
The House of the Future was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson in 1956 to showcase what house designs might be like 25 years in the future. It is an interior focused rectangle filled in with amorphously shaped walls, storage units, and a central courtyard as well as high technology of all sorts. It is like something out of the Jetsons. While the design remains singular in the Smithsons portfolio, it was highly influential in their student’s work and firms like Archigram built upon its bodly novel concepts. Despite this long and robust influence, the structure was physically standing for only a short time. In this video, the house is reconstructed and explored in real-time. What would it have been like to occupy the The House of the Future? See for yourself.
3D Walkthrough
https://api2.enscape3d.com/v1/view/a18387bd-9920-41f6-a562-43c7d3120785
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:03 Timeline
05:04 Analysis
08:25 3D Modeling
08:58 Walkthrough
11:38 Conclusions
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Architecture with Stewart is a YouTube journey exploring architecture’s deep and enduring stories in all their bewildering glory. Weekly videos and occasional live events breakdown a wide range of topics related to the built environment in order to increase their general understanding and advocate their importance in shaping the world we inhabit.
About Me
Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture.
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University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture: https://arch.uic.edu/
#architecture #architecturedesign")
![Inside an AMAZING Demolished Brutalist House [Lincoln House by Mary Otis Stevens]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tN20tllaH1w/mqdefault.jpg "Inside an AMAZING Demolished Brutalist House [Lincoln House by Mary Otis Stevens]
The first Brutalist house built in the United States of only concrete and glass is no longer standing. It was demolished in 1999, but that doesn’t mean we can’t visit it virtually to witness what it would have been like to be inside. This video and link below focuses on a single house — the Lincoln House — designed by Mary Otis Stevens to resurrect and explore. It uses the program Enscape to walk through the building in order to preserve and distribute the experience of architecture that no longer exists in built form. The video offers a timeline to contextualize the role of the house in the career of the architect and the evolution of Brutalism in Architecture, an analysis of the building, and initial reactions to walking through the building for the first time. What magic and other lessons are lurking in the design, hidden until we could experience it?
Link to explore the Lincoln House: https://api2.enscape3d.com/v1/view/b5e4475e-b4d7-4f5a-b9ab-d7071735cf99
**Correction**Walter Gropius was not part of MIT, however, Mary did work for him for two years.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Timeline
03:34 Breakdown
07:44 3D Modeling
08:31 Exploration
10:40 Takeaways
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