Architect Dirk Engelen was surprised when he found a John Lautner look-a-like house in suburban Antwerp. He describes the house as ‘an apartment in the treetops’ because the living space is set across the first floor. Other than a lesser brutalist administration building in Herentals, this house was Cuylen’s only masterpiece. As well as John Lautner’s Elrod house of 1968, the Cuylen house’s closest comparison. Similarly to Elrod’s sweeping concrete curves, the organic Cuylen house cantilevers on all sides supported by its central concrete core and seven slim columns.

Source: The Local March 04, 2020 17:15 UTC