Misfits’ Hit List

Yes, it’s that time of the year again for a quick roundup of who’s searching for what and see how it compares to misfits’ all-time hit list. We’ll never know if they found what they were looking for but there is data for where it got them. First of all, here’s the all- time list of popular search terms, unedited.
All Time
Search | Views |
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ak 47 | 3,756 |
microprocessor | 2,140 |
hannes meyer | 941 |
sanaa | 691 |
unite d’habitation | 630 |
unite d’habitation plan | 507 |
unitè d’habitation | 491 |
villa savoye | 419 |
ak-47 | 397 |
le corbusier unite d’habitation | 393 |
unité d’habitation | 314 |
tv tower | 239 |
eileen gray | 237 |
le corbusier unité d’habitation | 214 |
le corbusier unitè d’habitation | 205 |
unité d’habitation plan | 199 |
unite d’habitation floor plan | 197 |
jungfraujoch | 172 |
antonio sant’elia | 147 |
microprocessors | 130 |
barajas airport | 125 |
unite habitation | 113 |
oil rig | 112 |
villa savoye site plan | 112 |
yakhchal | 111 |
hannes meyer bauhaus | 110 |
unite d’habitation plans | 108 |
domino house | 106 |
domino system | 96 |
maison jaoul | 93 |
irving gill | 91 |
corbusier unite d’habitation | 87 |
unité d’habitation le corbusier | 79 |
villa savoye plan | 76 |
portland building | 76 |
auguste perret | 75 |
le corbusier plan | 75 |
tv towers | 74 |
unité d’habitation berlin | 74 |
steiner house | 73 |
sanaa architecture | 71 |
josefa moreu | 71 |
unite d’habitation floor plans | 71 |
unitè d’habitation le corbusier | 70 |
dogma architecture | 70 |
bauhaus | 67 |
unite d’habitation le corbusier | 67 |
prosopis cineraria | 65 |
michael graves | 63 |
al madina supermarket | 61 |
misfitsarchitecture | 61 |
madrid airport | 60 |
michael graves portland building | 58 |
le corbusier plans | 58 |
misfits architecture | 57 |
lincoln house mary otis stevens | 57 |
big architects | 57 |
superstudio | 55 |
michael graves portland | 55 |
melltorp | 54 |
unite d habitation | 54 |
le corbusier unite d’habitation plan | 54 |
diagrid structure | 51 |
halley iv | 51 |
unitè d’habitation plan | 50 |
unite le corbusier | 50 |
sant’elia | 50 |
wolkenbugel | 50 |
unite d’habitation grundriss | 49 |
unité d’habitation plans | 48 |
mary otis stevens | 48 |
weissenhofsiedlung | 48 |
unite d’habitation section | 47 |
diagrid | 47 |
peter eisenman | 46 |
maisons jaoul | 45 |
tashkent tower | 44 |
plan unité d’habitation | 44 |
cctv structure | 43 |
guangzhou opera house plans | 42 |
chaparral 2j | 42 |
villa savoye site | 41 |
cctv building structure | 40 |
guangzhou opera house | 40 |
oil rigs | 40 |
television tower | 40 |
fair landscape | 39 |
villa savoye orientation | 39 |
le corbusier floor plans | 39 |
beijing national stadium structure | 38 |
unite d’habitation berlin | 38 |
eileen gray architecture | 38 |
space architecture | 38 |
unite d’habitation marseille plan | 37 |
brick country house | 37 |
peter zumthor 2014 | 37 |
vernacular architecture | 36 |
sanaa plan | 36 |
pier luigi nervi | 36 |
unite de habitation | 35 |
eileen gray e1027 | 35 |
villa savoye dimensions | 35 |
auguste perret rue franklin | 35 |
microprocessor images | 35 |
eileen gray house | 34 |
valve to prevent water from gravity feeding | 34 |
portland building michael graves | 34 |
unité d’habitation | 34 |
plan unité d’habitation le corbusier | 34 |
villa savoye aerial view | 34 |
madame savoye | 34 |
ак 47 | 33 |
offshore rig | 33 |
guild house venturi | 32 |
unite d habitation plan | 32 |
tashkent tv tower | 32 |
diagrid detail | 32 |
al noor mosque sharjah | 32 |
corbusier unite d’habitation plan | 32 |
cap martin | 31 |
islamic architecture | 31 |
paris opera house | 30 |
corbusier unite | 30 |
unité d’habitation marseille plan | 30 |
niemeyer berlin | 30 |
villa savoye plans | 29 |
unite d’habitation marseille plans | 29 |
lincoln house stevens | 28 |
corbusier unité d’habitation | 28 |
weissenhof | 28 |
villa savoye location | 28 |
unite corbusier | 28 |
disguised mobile phone masts | 28 |
basic design in architecture | 27 |
paris opera house staircase | 27 |
villa savoye inside | 27 |
villa savoye floor plan | 27 |
al noor mosque | 27 |
villa savoye aerial | 27 |
unité d’habitation le corbusier plan | 26 |
twisted architecture | 26 |
sanaa housing | 26 |
robert venturi guild house | 26 |
chicago school of architecture | 26 |
ensco 104 | 26 |
unite habitation plan | 25 |
villa savoye surroundings | 25 |
le corbusier apartment | 25 |
villa savoye construction | 24 |
graves portland building | 24 |
english for architects | 24 |
madina supermarket | 24 |
chicago school architecture | 24 |
hannes meyer architecture | 24 |
ikea melltorp | 23 |
misfit architecture | 23 |
shell structures | 23 |
dogma architects | 23 |
orientation villa savoye | 23 |
hannes meyer architect | 23 |
seagram building | 23 |
peter eisenman house iii | 23 |
mary otis stevens lincoln house | 23 |
sanaa leaking architecture | 23 |
le corbusier marseille plan | 23 |
corbusier | 23 |
le corbusier unite d habitation | 23 |
bauhaus drawing | 23 |
lc6 | 22 |
portland michael graves | 22 |
unitè d’habitation berlino | 22 |
mies van der rohe brick house | 22 |
cctv facade | 22 |
apple store new york | 22 |
pepeta moreu | 22 |
domino house le corbusier | 22 |
carbon fiber table | 22 |
unitè d’habitation de le corbusier | 22 |
opera garnier plan | 22 |
useful buildings | 21 |
microprocessor architecture | 21 |
le corbusier unite d’habitation floor plan | 21 |
unite d’ habitation | 21 |
big architecture | 21 |
adolf loos | 21 |
bauhaus hannes meyer | 21 |
le corbusier floor plan | 21 |
corbusier plan | 21 |
beijing national stadium structural plan | 21 |
beehive | 21 |
parametric architecture | 20 |
offshore oil rig | 20 |
diagrid construction | 20 |
materials architecture antarctica | 20 |
falconcity of wonders | 20 |
farnsworth house plan | 20 |
different types of palm trees diagram | 20 |
depero | 20 |
zaha hadid architecture | 20 |
maison jaoul le corbusier | 20 |
al madina supermarket dubai | 19 |
villa savoye bad | 19 |
karama metro station | 19 |
maisons jaoul le corbusier | 19 |
unité d’habitation grundriss | 19 |
prosopis cineraria tree | 19 |
unite d’ habitation plan | 19 |
unité d’habitation floor plan | 19 |
villa savoye bathroom | 19 |
mukesh ambani car parking | 18 |
cctv diagrid | 18 |
unité d’habitation marseille | 18 |
portland building graves | 18 |
le corbusier unite | 18 |
unite d’habitation marseilles | 18 |
beijing stadium structure | 18 |
corbusier table | 18 |
frederick kiesler | 18 |
brick house mies van der rohe | 18 |
muslim mosque | 17 |
tower tv | 17 |
guangzhou opera house plan | 17 |
sydney opera house inside | 17 |
corbusier unite plan | 17 |
shading devices | 17 |
unité le corbusier | 17 |
villa savoye floor plan dimensions | 17 |
perret rue franklin | 17 |
sanaa diagram | 17 |
sun shading devices | 17 |
diagrid architecture | 17 |
rokko housing | 17 |
venus project | 17 |
villa savoye structure | 17 |
le corbusier apartment plan | 17 |
shell structure | 17 |
le corbusier habitation | 17 |
riba pylon competition | 17 |
patrik schumacher logo | 16 |
farnsworth house details | 16 |
all towers | 16 |
a k 47 | 16 |
mukesh ambani house | 16 |
hannes meyer petersschule | 16 |
villa savoye www.fondationlecorbusier.fr | 16 |
guangzhou opera house section | 16 |
rigs | 16 |
zaha hadid architects | 16 |
auguste perret casa in rue franklin | 16 |
unite d’habitation pläne | 16 |
unite d habitation floor plan | 16 |
plan sanaa | 16 |
oil rig fire | 16 |
mies van der rohe brick country house | 15 |
peter eisenman architecture | 15 |
the emperor’s new clothes | 15 |
frank lloyd wright buildings | 15 |
heating hannes meyer | 15 |
diagrid cctv | 15 |
brick country house mies van der rohe | 15 |
big archi | 15 |
weissenhof stuttgart | 15 |
image of microprocessor | 15 |
barmpton | 15 |
images of microprocessor | 15 |
unité d’habitation marseille grundriss | 15 |
unité habitation | 15 |
villa savoye problems | 15 |
unité d’habitation berlin grundriss | 14 |
hannes meyer school | 14 |
sanaa almere | 14 |
cctv building section | 14 |
small fiberglass pools | 14 |
pier luigi nervi buildings | 14 |
sanaa house | 14 |
cctv building diagram | 14 |
paris opera house floor plan | 14 |
picture of microprocessor | 14 |
grundriss unite d’habitation | 14 |
the villa savoye | 14 |
george fred keck | 14 |
steiner house adolf loos | 14 |
mcnulty house lincoln ma | 14 |
statue of liberty interior structure | 14 |
chicago 1890 | 14 |
big architect | 14 |
television towers | 14 |
cctv section | 14 |
al hamra palace spain | 14 |
great towers | 14 |
dymaxion house | 14 |
casa de la rue franklin | 14 |
what is the point of architecture | 14 |
ak 47 type 2 | 14 |
fountain marcel duchamp | 13 |
le corbusier unite plan | 13 |
cumberland terrace | 13 |
villa savoye construction details | 13 |
meyer hannes | 13 |
villa domino | 13 |
thomas mcnulty architect | 13 |
burj al arab | 13 |
melltorp table | 13 |
irving gill architecture | 13 |
hannes meyer quotes | 13 |
graves portland | 13 |
le corbusier’s unite d’habitation | 13 |
astana architecture | 13 |
genpei akasegawa, shinbo minami, tetsuo matsuda, and joji hayashi | 13 |
paris opera house section | 13 |
habitation corbusier | 13 |
eileen gray e1027 house | 13 |
brise soleil marsiglia le corbusier | 13 |
dodge house irving gill | 13 |
rue franklin apartments | 13 |
le corbusier berlin unite d’habitation | 13 |
pylon design | 13 |
villa e 1027 | 12 |
sanaa houses | 12 |
interlocking apartment | 12 |
sukhoi | 12 |
su 37 | 12 |
irving gill dodge house | 12 |
unite d’habitation plan | 12 |
the microprocessor | 12 |
paris opera house plan | 12 |
le corbusier marseille plans | 12 |
shell structure architecture | 12 |
cctv building construction | 12 |
ak47 | 12 |
sanaa architects | 12 |
space station architecture | 12 |
madrid barajas airport | 12 |
unite dhabitation plan | 12 |
venturi guild house | 12 |
perret notre dame du raincy | 12 |
adolf loos steiner house | 12 |
bashar al shawa | 12 |
wolkenbugel el lissitzky | 12 |
tv tower tashkent | 12 |
e1027 | 12 |
el lissitzky architecture | 12 |
dubai opera house plan | 12 |
dogma a simple heart | 12 |
micro processor | 12 |
sydney opera house interior | 12 |
villa savoye concept | 12 |
lincoln house stevens mcnulty | 12 |
scott base antarctica | 12 |
seagram building structure | 11 |
corbusier firminy | 11 |
törten dessau meyer | 11 |
pyramid of peace | 11 |
unite habitation le corbusier | 11 |
unite d’habitation marseilles floor plan | 11 |
unite d`habitation | 11 |
azuma house | 11 |
eilen gray | 11 |
unité d’habitation corbusier | 11 |
garnier opera house | 11 |
architecture | 11 |
e 1027 | 11 |
frank lloyd wright taliesin | 11 |
fortunato depero | 11 |
e-1027 house | 11 |
site plan of villa savoye | 11 |
cctv foundation | 11 |
honey bee | 11 |
perret casa in rue franklin | 11 |
adalberto libera | 11 |
though the great expanses of glass that he favors may occasionally turn his rooms into hothouses, his flat roofs may leak and his plans may be wasteful of space, it was architect le corbusier who in 1923 put the entire philosophy of modern architecture into a single sentence: “a house is a machine to live in | 11 |
le corbusier maison jaoul | 11 |
islamic mosque | 11 |
beatriz colomina, eileen gray and le corbusier | 11 |
nervi | 11 |
zig zag brick alvar aalto | 11 |
paris opera house horizontal plan | 11 |
futurist architecture italy | 11 |
guild house robert venturi | 11 |
umayyad mosque | 11 |
savoye | 11 |
shit shapes | 11 |
villa savoye plans with dimensions | 11 |
stevens mcnulty house | 11 |
okurayama apartments sanaa | 11 |
le corbusier apartments | 11 |
michael graves buildings | 11 |
flying saucer | 11 |
system domino | 11 |
farnsworth house blueprints | 11 |
friedrich kiesler | 11 |
wolkenbugel by el lissitzky 1925 | 11 |
dom-ino le corbusier | 11 |
domino le corbusier | 10 |
keck crystal house | 10 |
plans of unite d’habitation | 10 |
symbiosis gray-badovici | 10 |
le corbusier domino | 10 |
karlsplatz | 10 |
irving gill images | 10 |
norman foster sketches | 10 |
otto wagner karlsplatz | 10 |
roquebrune cap martin | 10 |
unité d’habitation of berlin | 10 |
charles garnier | 10 |
small fiberglass swimming pools | 10 |
cctv oma | 10 |
astana pyramid | 10 |
casa franklin perret | 10 |
unité d’habitation floorplan | 10 |
le corbusier unité d’habitation plan | 10 |
irving gill architect | 10 |
concrete diagrid structure | 10 |
guild house | 10 |
qatar national convention centre in doha by arata isozaki sezione | 10 |
le corbusier jaoul | 10 |
chaparral | 10 |
al karama metro station | 10 |
bathroom skylight | 10 |
микропроцессор | 10 |
venturi antarctica | 10 |
mary otis stevens and thomas mcnulty | 10 |
fair store chicago | 10 |
hannes mayer | 10 |
almere sanaa | 10 |
richard rogers barajas | 10 |
the venus project | 10 |
frederick kiesler + nesting table | 10 |
antonio sant’elia | 10 |
brick country house mies | 10 |
arm microprocessor | 10 |
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/30/high-voltage-transmisison-line-towers-by-arphenotype/ | 10 |
most expensive faberge egg pictures | 10 |
eileen gray e 1027 | 10 |
chicago steel frame | 10 |
oil rig on fire | 10 |
double sided elevator | 10 |
diagrid structure details | 10 |
petrol station coverages | 10 |
unite de habitation plan | 10 |
offshore rigs | 10 |
mosque | 10 |
kiesler endless house | 10 |
chaparral car | 10 |
microprocessor arm996hs | 10 |
jungfraujoch observatory | 10 |
orientation architecture | 10 |
sharjah mosque | 10 |
villa savoye basement | 10 |
francois hennebique | 10 |
japanese house plans | 10 |
bauhaus fest 1925 | 10 |
e 1027 house eileen gray | 10 |
le corbusier villa savoye | 10 |
famous floor plans corridor | 10 |
shukhov tower 3d model | 10 |
richard+rogers+madrid | 10 |
unite d habitation plans | 10 |
unite d’habitation plans sections | 10 |
unite d habitation grundriss | 10 |
villa savoye materials | 9 |
plan of unite d’habitation | 9 |
hannes meyer en la bauhaus | 9 |
unite d’habitation plan dimensions | 9 |
hennebique frame | 9 |
cassina lc6 | 9 |
perspective section | 9 |
structural engineering art | 9 |
ак-47 | 9 |
guggenheim museum | 9 |
villa savoye floor plans | 9 |
بيت ستينر | 9 |
whats the point of architecture | 9 |
santelia | 9 |
fan car | 9 |
villa savoye brick | 9 |
le corbusier unité d’habitation marseille | 9 |
unité d’habitation plan | 9 |
barajas airport madrid | 9 |
unité d’habitation marseilles plan | 9 |
richard rogers madrid airport | 9 |
michael graves architecture | 9 |
le corbusier unitè | 9 |
le corbusiers unité d’habitation plans | 9 |
al hambra | 9 |
pylon competition | 9 |
offshore oil platform | 9 |
deepwater horizon | 9 |
plan villa savoye | 9 |
ancient muslim architecture | 9 |
corbusier habitation | 9 |
richard rogers madrid | 9 |
new objectivity architechture | 9 |
opéra garnier plan | 9 |
villa savoye ground floor dimensions | 9 |
shit shapes | 9 |
cutaway reinforced concrete for column | 9 |
exposition crystal house by george keck 1934 | 9 |
Unknown search terms | 26,683 |

hannes meyer | 1207 |
sanaa | 914 |
eileen gray | 310 |
mary otis stevens thomas mcnulty | 215 |
antonio sant’elia | 200 |
irving gill | 149 |
auguste perret | 126 |
bauhaus | 67 |
big architects | 55 |
superstudio | 55 |
- I expect that Hannes Meyer, Mary Otis Stevens/Thomas McNulty, Irving Gill and Superstudio feature on this list because there isn’t much information newly available on the internet about them. You’re welcome.
- And I imagine that some people come to this blog after searching SANAA, Sant’Elia, Bauhaus and BIG because, with the number of students probably searching those terms, chances are they will.
The Top Ten searched buildings were …

With all its search input variations, the Unité d’Habitations was remains the clear winner and, of those searches, the majority were for the section and/or the plan. At last – somebody’s drawn an new section! Here you go!
Villa Savoye info for student purposes is far more abundant elsewhere but, it’s It’s nice to see Eileen Gray’s E1027 and Irving Gill’s Dodge House make the list.
And for the Sphinx Observatory at Jungfraujoch as well – a personal favourite.
As is the Lincoln House – my adolescent shapeist infatuation. I’m well over it now of course, but the memory of that first crush remains. I’ll always think of this building fondly.
The All-Time Top Ten Misfits Posts
All Time
There’s actually thirteen there. The first doesn’t count since it’s the home page at any given time.
The Things Architects Do reflects the number of people searching for information on Le Corbusier, the Villa Savoye and the unités d’habitations.
The Microprocessor is Not Trying to Look Beautiful probably reflects the number of insurgents, freedom fighters, rebel forces and other interested parties looking for information on AK-47 assault rifles, not to mention government internet monitoring organisations wanting to find out information on people who want that information. I’d just like to mention that misfits’ architecture is only interested in the AK-47 as the inspiration for a new type of building aesthetic that is the result of designing something that works.
The Things Architects Believe #1 is a catch-all post that includes information on Le Corbusier and concrete (he didn’t really invent it), Auguste Perret (who didn’t either) and other facts it’s useful to remember.

The Things Architects Do #3: SANAA is probably a reflection of who’s hot right now, and who’s a student favourite or figure to aspire to. I’m no great fan of SANAA but am pleased to offer an alternative opinion from the general fawning puff pieces one reads these days.
The DARKER Side of Villa Savoye dares to suggest that Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye is something less than a shrine to all that is good in the world of architecture. Can you think of a movie star who was never really a good actor – or even popular – but, long after they stopped making movies, became famous for being famous? The Villa Savoye is a bit like that. Who would the Villa Savoye be? Email me suggestions.

Architecture Misfit #1: Hannes Meyer It is the misfits’ belief that if the principles Hannes Meyer was proposing back in the 1930 had been followed up and improved upon in the time since, we would have much better buildings today. Additionally, that humanity would do well to get back to that fork in the road and follow the other path.

The Things Architects Do #2: Ornament was a quick history of people using decoration and ornament to fool themselves into thinking that buildings are more than they are.
The Television Tower is Not Trying to Look Beautiful was just me using the example of another highly functional object to illustrate that ornament is not really necessary. This post is surprisingly popular. I don’t know why it should be more popular than any other post in the XXX is Not Trying to Look Beautiful series. Remember, the tree is not trying to look beautiful.
The New Architecture of Austerity highlighted a few trends in what’s considered to be architecture these days. Most of these trends resulted from trying to make architecture using less effort or resources. It would be good if those efforts weren’t misdirected to the making of pretentious architecture of little or no use.
Architecture Misfit #3: Eileen Gray is our only heroine so far. E1027 embodies much of what architecture is trying to be now. If anyone says that Modernism (as a philosophy, not a style) had no heart or soul, then they do not know of E1027. The world is about to rediscover Eileen Gray. Blame Le Corbusier for her being sidelined in the first place. Oh, and read the post.
The Dark Side of the Villa Savoye is probably the first piece of Villa Savoye bashing that many people encounter. No building is perfect but it is a call for keeping it real, and admitting that VS had a few problems, some of which were construction related, some design-related, and some were just the prejudices of the times.

Inspirations for Performance-Beauty Architecture could just be more people searching for info on AK-47s but we like to think not. This post sets out the inspirations for an architecture where performance beauty replaces visual beauty as the only type of endeavour of relevance for architecture.
This post was an early one and remains an ongoing theme of this blog. The flow of posts may drift from this theme occasionally, but will always return to it.
Jonathan Strauss
says:eloquent as always.
but I guess this means you wont be going o NYC for a weekend to see Mr le C retro at MOMA?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1321#media_player/19/1
Graham McKay
says:you know – I wouldn’t mind going. it’s always a good idea to keep an eye on how the myth keeps getting refreshed with additional material. We’ve had the archive of his cousin Pierre, plus LC’s collected letters to his mother. This time they’re blowing the dust off the landscape doodlings. Apart from that guitar, does any other Purist painting actually exist??!!
I’ve never trusted architects who paint, especially those who make a big deal of it, claiming it allows them to “work through” their ideas. Will Alsop, Zaha Hadid …