#francois perrin

François Perrin - Air Houses: design for a new climate

Malibu, California, is home to an interesting residential project – the PAS House/ Skateboard House. As you might guess from the name and photos, this unique space was designed to be both a modern home and a collection of skateboard-ready surfaces both indoor and outdoor. Built for...

ok, i confess that i generally tend to take pictures of: old houses and weird houses and houses that are kind of falling down and houses that are succumbing to entropy.

today's house is neither old nor weird nor falling down nor succumbing to entropy. i see it almost every day, as it's in my neighborhood, and even though i see it every day it invariably strikes me in that it's a fairly rare example of good, new, tasteful, and relatively site sensitive architecture.

it was designed by francois perrin, who is a french architect living and working in l.a. 

personally, and subjectively, i love how it's restrained and sculptural, and how it subtly references a lot of iconic l.a mid-century case study houses. 

it's also a really deft example of employing materials that might not always be thought of as cohabitating benignly (like cement and wood) in a very challenging location (a hill-side with an 80 degree slope). and no, i'm not being paid to write advertorial for this house, i just think it's really tasteful and great, and stands in stark contrast to the thousands of beige crap-shacks being erected by rapacious developers.

thanks, and have a nice weekend.

Hollywood Hills House | Architect: Francois Perrin | Los Angeles, CA

April 2, 2013