House or Home — Discover the Difference
House or home. Point or counterpoint. A glance into my past reveals a younger and prouder intern-architect passionately argued this comparison with other interns often late at night in the design studio. The revelation it was a passionate discussion suggests mind-loosening libations may have been involved. Facts elude me, but I’m sure I made a well-reasoned argument for my position and defended it convincingly or at the very least, loudly; however, experience and discretion rewarded me with compelling visual tools to illustrate the difference between these seemingly synonymous and often polarizing terms.
To answer the question House or Home, I propose a visual quiz to illustrate the differences. There are no right answers, but observe the posted images closely and record your response to the question…
Which is the House v. Home?
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Did you tag your selections? Make sure you selected one of each pair and know why you selected it before reading forward.
Now think like a client. Does a client mindset change your response? So which is the House and which is the Home?
Is there a difference between those words? I have clients who use them interchangeably and others who distinguish their dwelling’s title. The emotions the replacement of two letters evoke lies in each client. Listening to the client, I learn what’s important. If client A calls it a house, so do I. If client B calls is a home, so do I. If client C calls it fudge, I call it a house or home. I use consistent vocabulary to confirm I hear and understand.
While there’s no personal distinction for me, I recognize the label “House” or “Home” makes a difference to some people. Those people could be a past, current or future client or even a young, proud intern-architect.
What’s in a word? For some it makes all the difference and we only need to listen to discover.
This is another entry in Bob Borson’s blogging brain-child titled, “ArchiTalks”.
The #ArchiTalks goal is to inspire blogging architects with similar educational and professional requirements to opine on the same topic and simulpost their response so other architects and a broader audience can enjoy the rampant thought-diversity within the architecture profession
Select the links in “Architalks Entries” below to read how architects responded to the “House or Home” topic.
image credits:
- mine
Bob Borson – Life of An Architect (@bobborson)
The Designation between House and Home
Marica McKeel – Studio MM (@ArchitectMM)
ArchiTalks: House or Home?
Jeff Echols – Architect Of The Internet (@Jeff_Echols)
House or Home? The Answer to Everything
Lee Calisti, AIA – Think Architect (@LeeCalisti)
our house is home
Mark R. LePage – EntreArchitect (@EntreArchitect)
Emotional Marketing for Architects: House or Home?
Lora Teagarden – L² Design, LLC (@L2DesignLLC)
House or Home? It’s in the story.
Collier Ward – One More Story (@BuildingContent)
House or Home? A Choice of Terms
Jeremiah Russell, AIA – ROGUE Architecture (@rogue_architect)
house or home: #architalks
Eric T. Faulkner – Rock Talk (@wishingrockhome)
House or Home — Discover the Difference
Michele Grace Hottel – Michele Grace Hottel, Architect (@mghottel)
“house” or “home”?
Meghana Joshi – IRA Consultants, LLC (@MeghanaIRA)
Architalks #24 : House or Home
Brian Paletz – The Emerging Architect (@bpaletz)
House or Home? – Depends
Michael LaValley – Evolving Architect (@archivalley)
House or Home? Train for One, Design for Another
Jarod Hall – di’velept (@divelept)
A Rose by Any Other Name…
Greg Croft – Sage Leaf Group (@croft_gregory)
House or Home
Jeffrey Pelletier – Board & Vellum (@boardandvellum)
Designing a House into a Home
Samantha R. Markham – The Aspiring Architect (@TheAspiringArch)
6 Ways to Make your Architecture Studio feel like Home
Kyu Young Kim – J&K Atelier (@sokokyu)
Making a House a Home
Nisha Kandiah – ArchiDragon (@ArchiDragon)
Dwelling on a Macro scale
Rusty Long – Rusty Long, Architect (@rustylong)
House or Home
Keith Palma – Architect’s Trace (@cogitatedesign)
I don’t design homes
Jim Mehaffey – Yeoman Architect (@jamesmehaffey)
House or Home: One’s a Place, the Other a Feeling.
Tim Ung – Journey of an Architect (@timothy_ung)
Architalks – A House is not a home
Mark Stephens – Mark Stephens Architects (@architectmark)
#ArchiTalks #24 House or Home? #RefugeeCrisis @GrainneHassett mentioned