Design: Residence / California
Family unit
Refusing to be derailed by natural disasters and ever-rising costs, Samantha Mink’s architectural debut is a remarkable and liveable modernist home for her parents.
There are many reasons why Los Angeles architect Samantha Mink might have shied away from designing a weekend house for her parents. She tends to favour esoteric modernism, while they gravitate towards antiques. Construction quagmires can strain even the strongest relationships. And mixing money and family is always a risk.
Yet 100 years after Le Corbusier built his parents the pioneering Villa Le Lac on Lake Geneva’s eastern shore, perhaps the greatest hurdle was the calibre of what had come before. Some of the biggest names in…
