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David Sellers

via; https://www.dwell.com/amp/article/architecture-improv-0dd26bfe?fbclid=IwY2xjawIlGFtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYKv-7a3ygSkxRCTbPoKwmLNPcC9RmVdDE9XPLEI6veKCoTFb4LZlhQauA_aem_AoAFNooWwLA8c675Y54iAw

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Post-moderne kleinschaligheid (is dit een pleonasme?) gebouwd in 2013 op Prickly Mountain, met de Archie Bunker van David Sellers.

Still amusing himself after more than 50 years, Sellers, with the help of some students at Yestermorrow Design/Build School, constructed an 1,100-square-foot experimental house made entirely out of concrete. Grain patterns from the wooden forms are still visible in the walls. Cement pillars rise out of the spring-fed pool behind the house and support the upper porch. A large fireplace features both clean concrete lines and unfinished stone. Part of the project was about getting back to the same philosophies that formed Prickly Mountain. “When I first came up here, I built buildings that were in all these magazines,” he says. “People would come up and say: ‘I love that house. Do something for me like that. But not quite that far-out.’”

So he’d give them 90 percent. Then another person would come along and ask for 90 percent of the second design. Pretty soon, he was making something stylistically unrecognizable from his passions. “I wanted to get back to the beginning,” he says. “That’s what the Archie Bunker is. No client — just winging it, doing what I thought was the coolest thing.”

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Lang leve de kleinschaligheid met het Tack House van David Sellers uit 1966, te vinden op de Prickly Mountain in Vermont.

Named for its shape, which comes to one of Sellers’ signature sharp points and pricks the sky, this was the first house of the Prickly Mountain era. As the original case study, it was built with no blueprints beyond a rough sketch of the foundation — and with Sellers and his classmate Bill Rienecke acting as client, developer, architect, and contractor. Stairs appeared where they made sense, Plexiglas formed windows that conformed to the curves and angles of the walls, and cast-off materials became aesthetic focal points.

Not without its quirks (like a refrigerator jutting outside through the wall) and ultra-high stairs that have been known to trip people up, it was the beginning of the design/build movement. One of the defining characteristics of the design/build movement is the way structures grow organically. Sinks are shaped to fit their environment; Plexiglas windows curve based on need. Interiors follow the same sensibility, and the space becomes an aesthetic hodgepodge. Exteriors showcase the inventive geometry that dominates homes on Prickly Mountain. Inside, a staircase twists and turns with abnormally large steps to get from below to above. Watch your shins!

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Lang leve de kleinschaligheid met de Pyramid House van David Sellers! Dit bouwwerkje uit 1968, dat te vinden is op Prickly Mountain, zou het ook nu nog als nieuwbouw niet slecht doen in de architectuurbladen.

“A wooden mass of triangles that suggests a Cape Cod rental whose water pipes have been laced with LSD.” That’s how Mike Ives, a reporter for Burlington’s independent weekly newspaper, Seven Days, described the house in a 2008 article.
 A study in angles, the structure juts every which way. Many of the Plexiglas windows appear to be skylights, depending on a dweller’s perspective within the disorienting structure. And again, it’s the product of zero blueprints. The clapboard siding has aged diversely, with coffee browns on one side and weathered greys on the other. Facing down the mountain, a wraparound balcony offers a magnificent view of the valley.

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The Houses of Prickly Mountain, from Collective Quarterly 2 - Sight Unseen

Collective Quarterly is a niche journal that deep-dives into a different locale with each issue. In Vermont, the journal pointed its camera

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David Sellers, Tack House, 1965-81, Prickly Mountain, Warren, Virginia

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An elegantly reimagined Colonial-style residence is on the market in Hanover, New Hampshire. Originally built in 1923, it was completely renovated in 2002 by noted architect David Sellers, who redid the interiors in the style of Arts and Crafts, rendering each space in warm, wood accents. Located at 20 Rope Ferry Road, just steps from Dartmouth College, the magazine-featured property is offered at $3.6 million.

(via Renovated Arts and Crafts home with pond views wants $3.6M - Curbed)

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The Houses of Prickly Mountain Part 10: Lovejoy House

This structure is part of the historic Vermont Design/Build Movement as featured in the Robert Hull Fleming Museum’s 2008 exhibition, Architectural Improvement.

See the full series here.

via Robert Hull Fleming Museum on Flickr