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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: 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.
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00:00 Introduction
01:28 Timeline
03:34 Breakdown
07:44 3D Modeling
08:31 Exploration
10:40 Takeaways
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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: 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
__
FOLLOW me on instagram: @stewart_hicks & @designwithco
Design With Company: designwith.co
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture: https://arch.uic.edu/
#brutalism #architecture
![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
FOLLOW me on instagram: @stewart_hicks & @designwithco
Design With Company: https://designwith.co
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture: https://arch.uic.edu/
#brutalism #architecture")
![This Incredible Megastructure Just Failed [Nakagin Capsule Tower]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vrwYUOg1bZQ/mqdefault.jpg "This Incredible Megastructure Just Failed [Nakagin Capsule Tower]
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The Nakagin Capsule Tower was one of the most prominent constructions from the Metabolist movement. It was designed in 1972 by Kisho Kurokawa to serve a growing population of mobile business person in Tokyo, Japan. It was composed of 140 capsules attached to concrete towers. These 100 sf units were designed to be removable and replaceable over time. However, the building stood for 50 years without a single unit being replaced. Finally, it fell into such disrepair that it needed to be demolished. This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise.
Exhibition of photographs can be found here : https://mascontext.com/events/1972-accumulations
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