![]() ![]() “Unfinished, isolated, and melancholic in a good way” describes Adalberto Libera’s 1938 Casa Malaparte. ![]() “Totalizing sticks and planes” describes Gerrit Rietveld’s 1924 Schröder-Schräder House. ![]() Through the hefty 128-pages of Houses for Sale (a hardcover designed with the help of MOS’s longtime collaborator Studio Lin), a family of four journeys from house to house in their gray sedan, stopping to ponder famous residences from the architectural canon and offering subtly satirical criticisms along the way. In keeping with that sentiment, a new illustrated book for children from Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, the principals of MOS Architects, has the kids in cahoots with their parents, searching for the perfect house that - spoiler alert - turns out to be unattainable. “All successful children’s literature has a conspiratorial element,” wrote John Updike in 1976. ![]()
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