(Today's sound clip: David Lang, winner of Pulitzer in composition)The Architectural Record featured a house by Sean Godsell as one of its 2008 "record houses". Located in rural Glenburn, Australia, this monochromatic, linear house has a sense of belonging because it is formally distinguished from but functionally in harmony with its environment. The landscape mounds are a passive cooling strategy: the prevailing winds pass over the cool earth mounds before entering the house. This project was preceded by a beach house shown below which makes me wonder what it would be like to live in a bridge. Would you always feel like you were progressing and getting somewhere, or would you feel like you were on an endless voyage? The Glenburn house transports me back west to Brad Cloepfil's/Allied Works' Maryhill Overlook, on the Columbia Gorge.