Architecture nerds need never continue in a ill designed vacation rental again . Co. Designtipped us off toPlans Matter , an Airbnb - like rental service that ’s specifically pitch toward avail you stay in architecturally illustrious homes .
The list of vacation renting available reads like an architecture nerd ’s febrility dream . Want to spend a few nights in a Frank Lloyd Wright home ? You ’ve gotsevento choose from , admit the Kinney House pictured above . What abouta buildingdesigned by the famous light artist James Turrell ? Or maybe you ’d opt apenthouse apartmentdesigned by Rudolf M. Schindler , a trailblazer of Southern California Modernism ?
The listings are all sourced by the land site ’s Divine , architects Connie Lindor and Scott Muellner , and approved by the company ’s adviser , architect Julie Snow ( who plan the cabin below ) and the designer and museum director Andrew Blauvelt . So you’re able to be sure that you ’re really choosing from residences with a top - notch architectural bloodline , not just a fancyMcMansionthat looks good in pictures .
For themost part , non - millionaires will never be able-bodied to live in a home base designed by a human beings - renowned architect . A Frank Gehry house can go for as much as$24.15 million . A penthouse design by the legendary I.M. Pei is sell for$9.6 million . The Vanna Venturi House , by the postmodern ikon Robert Venturi , sold for$1.35 millionin 2016 , and that was after a striking price drop .
While continue in a Frank Lloyd Wright is n’t your intermediate deal Airbnb , it ’s no more expensive than a dainty hotel ( or a cheap one in a high - priced country like New York City ) . One of Olson Kundig ’s prettyRolling Hutscabins in Washington can be yours for as little as $ 135 a dark .
For an architecture caramel brown , these places are deserving planning an intact holiday around .
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