By Jon King
Some 20 years ago I worked briefly for an architect in the UK called Richard Horden. He had been the project architect for London’s Stansted Airport and had a fascination for the technology of aircraft and sailing boats. His studio in London’s Golden Square was full of wonderful models of buildings boats and airplanes. In fact he had come to my attention as the designer and manufacturer of the “yacht house”, which as the name suggests was a house built entirely of masts spars and rigging. It was quite a wonderful looking house that alluded to a world of lightweight responsive houses. The world of mass housing has gone on pretty much as always and the yacht house remains something of a 1980’s enigma.
