Villa in Bordeaux studied by Mija Rose Yoon Hee Keane and Grant James Bates

Mija and Grant went through a gargantuesque amount of information to decipher the complexity of the Bordeaux Villa. Amongst films (Houselife), books (Living, Vivre, Leben) they finally took the direction to detach their investigation from the architect and focus on the house in itself. We can surely understand that the intimidating shadow of Rem Koohaas his satirical and often witty insights into the design process, can block any fresh attempt to understand his architecture.

We hope nevertheless that they would still try to understand and retranstcript the complex and innovative structural challenge very well documented by Cecil Balmond in "Informal" for this villa. It is as well important to notice the interesting image making of the Bordeaux House and one of the classical photo of the Riehl House by Mies van der Rohe. Again another direction to understand the different layers of references and theoretical reference in the rich body of work of OMA.

Villa Bordeaux (OMA) and Riehl House (Mies van der Rohe)