Highrise of Homes Project (Entrance elevation)

James Wines

1981

An ink-on-Mylar architectural elevation in which James Wines imagines a provocative ‘Highrise of Homes’—a tower composed of stacked individual houses, porches and planted terraces that proposes a new way of living in the city.

At first it reads like a precise schematic high‑rise, but closer inspection reveals a charming, improbable vertical neighborhood of pitched roofs, fences, porches and trees on each broad slab, blending house-like detail with monumental scale.

Part critique and part proposal, the work collapses suburban domestic forms into a dense vertical form to question modernist housing models and to open conversations about the relationship between architecture, landscape and everyday life.

Palette

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Elevation drawing Ink Drawing Architecture Built environment Urbanization Landscape

Exhibitions

Architecture in Government Housing

1936

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Architecture Worth Saving

1958