Why A-Frame Houses Don't Work

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Watch Abolish Everything right now! https://nebula.tv/abolish?ref=stewarthicks Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/stewarthicks The A-Frame house looks like the purest image of “home”: two walls meeting in a perfect triangle. It’s ancient, familiar, and everywhere—from mountain cabins to Instagram feeds. But as a place to actually live, it’s kind of a disaster. This video looks at where the A-Frame came from, why it exploded in popularity in the 1950s and ’60s, and what makes it so impractical today. We’ll follow its evolution from Alpine chalets and Japanese Gassho houses, through Rudolf Schindler’s experiments in California, to its rise as the ultimate American weekend cabin—cheap, portable, and easy to build. It’s strong, efficient to construct, and beautiful to photograph. It’s also acoustically terrible, thermally inefficient, and impossible to adapt. The A-Frame isn’t really a home—it’s an icon of escape. #Architecture #AFrame #DesignHistory #Modernism #VacationHomes #RudolfSchindler #MidcenturyModern #BuildingDesign Special Thanks: Evan Montgomery: Producer Daniela Osorio Sanudo __Membership__ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYAm24PkejQR2xMgJgn7xwg/join __About the Channel__ 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. __Contact__ 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/ __Attributions__ Stock video and imagery provided by Getty Images, Storyblocks, and Shutterstock. Music provided by Epidemic Sound and includes music from Chromatic by Tom Fox https://www.youtube.com/@chromaticbytomfox" #architecture #urbandesign