Thursday, January 6, 2011

Mushroom House

The creation of Cincinnati architect, Terry Brown, the Mushroom House is a fantastical structure constructed with materials used in inordinate ways--wood, colored glass, shell,

ceramics and metals.   His aim, giving homage to the organic style of Frank Lloyd Wright and to Gustav Stickley, was to create irregular shapes that mimic those found in nature.

Beginning life as a bungalow in an upscale area of Cincinnati, this house, his own residence and studio, was built gradually between 1992 and 2006.

Terry Brown holds bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture.  In 1983, he began teaching at the University of Cincinnati, and then later taught at Miami University of Oxford, Ohio.  After a Fulbright Fellowship at the Vienna Academy of Fine Art, in Austria, Brown began to develop his own unique style of architecture.  Brown's work is featured in many venues and  publications throughout the world.

LINKS:
more photos of mushroom house HERE.
LINKS about Terry Brown, architect:  HERE and HERE
LINKS to other wild houses:
Mummy Diaries strange houses 
Mummy Diaries thinnest house in Britain
World's Wildest Houses  This link will take you to house #13 (Mushroom House), but click back and forward in the photos to see more houses. 


This is a fun weekly meme, under the direction of Jenny Matlock.  This week, our letter is "M."  Seriously now, come and join HERE.  This is a great way to exercise your creative muscles AND you will be amazed at all the bloggy goodness to be found! 
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28 comments:

  1. What a unique spot! Thanks for sharing this and giving a little info about the architect, too.

    =)

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  2. I love quirky places like this! In Toronto there's house covered entirely in wine bottle corks and in the Kootenay there's a house constructed entirely from embalming fluid bottles - every weird!

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  3. what an amazing house ... now that is something i would love to see irl ... just amazing!

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  4. That is certainly a very cool house! I am always interested in the way architects interpret space and utility in different ways! This one has some whimsy to it! I am visiting from alphabet thursday. All the best, Alex@amoderatelife

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  5. That is magnificent. I kinda want to live there.

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  6. Amazing architecture! Love all the details!

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  7. Wow, what a unique and unusual structure. I wonder what it's like to live there :)

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  8. What a beautiful and unusual mushroom house!!! I love Terry´s style!

    Happy New Year!!! :)

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  9. This place is Wonderful! I've seen a few funky places that use recycled materials in unusual ways. One very cool place in Ellensburg WA.

    If you like this kind of art check out a friends blog http://trishsingelyn.blogspot.com/

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  10. Hahaha! I LOVE the sunglasses! Great post!!

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  11. These houses do look like mushrooms. Fun Post!

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  12. Thanks for sharing this Mushroom house and the architect that designed it :o) So fun to see what amazing creations there are out there.

    Blessings & Aloha!

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  13. The Mushroom House makes the House On the Rocks in southern Wisconsin look pretty tame by comparison!

    Fascinating images...

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  14. What a cool place! I wouldn't mind seeing it in person sometime.

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  15. How cool! I love living with my art around me, but never thought of living IN my art :)

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  16. That's certainly a unique house! Maybe it's because my mom was a realtor but I always wonder what would happen if someone having such a unique home wants to sell it. Have to find that right buyer I guess! :)

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  17. How fun! I like unusual houses, too. I saw another thin house in Amerstam. It's the house of Mr. Tripp's Coachman and it is just as wide as the door. He was overheard saying that he would be happy with a house as big as his employer's door. Mr. Tripp built him just that!

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  18. that's really crazy! The architect must have had fun designing it... if there was any forethought that went into it! It looks so familiar... {:-D

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  19. There used to be a TV show featuring quirky houses like this. I always loved watching it.

    It's so neat to think of someone having this vision and creativity in architecture...and in the making of a building that doesn't even fall down - ha!

    Thanks for an a-Mazing link to Alphabe-Thursday.

    I really, really loved visiting here today.

    A+

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  20. It's certainly odd and unusual and different. I can see the artistic creativity in it but I wonder what it does to the surrounding property value. Neat "M" post! ~Ames

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  21. Incredible -am glad to read he's also an architect, so I don't have to worry about the safety in this house!

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  22. Margaret--I'm enjoying your weekly mimes. This one is great!

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  23. I would love to visit this unusual place!

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