A look at three single room houses beginning with Charles Moore, and how each articulates house as sanctuary through siting, form, sequence and symbol.

The second house is that of Brian MacKay-Lyons, a student of Charles Moore’s at UCLA.

The third is the Rudin House by Herzog and deMeuron in Leymen France.

Moore House (1962) by Charles Moore in Orinda, CaliforniaMoore House (1966) rennovation by Charles Moore in New Haven, Connecticut

Upper Kingsburg House (1986) by Brian MacKay-Lyons in Nova Scotia

Rudin House (1997) by Herzog & de Meuron in Leymen, France

Rudin House (1997) by Herzog & de Meuron in Leymen, France