In this case, XO doesn’t stand for hugs and kisses. Rather, XO House—which Jason Logan and Matt Johnson of LOJO in Houston designed for Logan, his wife, and his wife’s father, who had dementia—references the house’s two plans: The ground floor is an X, the upstairs an O.
“Matt and I like to work with typologies,” Logan said. “The last house we designed for me and my wife was a dogtrot. Here on this site, the typology we had in mind was the courtyard of the Roman domus, specifically the compluvium.”
(Leonid Furmansky)
Situated on a tight corner lot in a sliver of Houston
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