Avian Moderninsm? Ja Bitte!

Recently I wrote about the ultimate in avian accessories, a Richard Meier inspired birdhouse, the apogee of modern living for birds.

Or so I thought.

Apparently that’s just not good enough for our feathered friends.

“Inspired?” choked my friend Sid the sparrow as we shared a seedcake the other day, “Inspired?!? That’s not flappin’ good enough! I spent five years, chick and bird roosting in the Pompidou and I want, nay demand authentic modernism, not some watered down, ‘inspired by’ junk!”

Apoplectic with fury he fairly choked on a sesame seed, which - if you’ve never seen a sparrow choke - is quite a sight.

Anyway, after he’d calmed down a bit, muttering something about ‘machines for living’, I pointed him in the direction of Austrian architects Raumhochrosen who have taken “Four examples of the remarkable development of the recent history of Vorarlbergian architecture” as inspiration for their range of architectural birdhouses.

“The hardships of the search for asthetical birdshouses do have an end!” proclaims their lost-in-tranlationist brochure, “Communicating wildlife to architecture-fiend!”

Now I’m not entirely up to speed on my Voralbergian architecture, but I am somewhat of an architecture fiend and these tick all my (bird)boxes.

Based on the architectural plans of real houses they’re lovingly recreated, in 1:33 scale, using the same kind of wood as the originals and would make a great living space for our feathered friends.

Sid obviously thought so too. He’s put a downpayment on the “Vorarlberger Baukünstler” and moves in next month.

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