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Stairs are inherently dramatic. As the transition from one level to the next, they break the plane of the ceiling or floor and immediately engage the psychological territory that Gaston Bachelard so elegantly describes in The Poetics of Space. Going up is to climb toward the sky, going down is to delve into the earth. [...]
A number of months ago, immediately on the heels of the Fourmile Fire, I was hired by a couple who just lost their house to design another. It has been a great process even in the face of that tragedy, with clients who reaffirm why I do residential design. Their thoughtfulness and commitment to the [...]
I have been thinking a lot lately about vernacular architecture and indigenous responses to local climate. By that I mean how a building and design practice, over time, has found architectural solutions to solve some of the problems posed by heat and cold, sunlight and shadow, aridity and humidity. Reading through some older posts on [...]
Our workload has started off with a bang compared to the last couple of years. We are working on a number of really great projects – a couple of new houses, a couple of renovation/additions, a couple of master plans and a few other things. As I mentioned in a previous post, a number of [...]
Maybe it is just a coincidence, but I are finding that I am working on a number of projects that deploy universal access principles as a major part of the design process. If you are not familiar with this term, universal access is an outgrowth of the barrier-free design guidelines that we were all using [...]
In the past few years I have had the opportunity to work on a number of projects that fully incorporated a live-work dynamic as a fundamental part of the house. More than simply a home office, a fully-utilized live-work program creates a kind of tension of use and privacy that most homes in the last [...]
There is a ton of press on the new small house phenomenom. As a response to the excesses of consumption and the economic turmoil of the last few years, many architects, builders and inventors have created amazingly livable micro-houses. I was listening to an interview with one of these tiny house makers and he was [...]
a description of the Fourmile Community Mapping Project for helping in planning and rebuilding efforts for the Sunshine Canyon and Fourmile Canyon residents after the recent Fourmile fire in Boulder, Colorado