A Tennessee student-built project that's both affordable and elegant.
Lake|Flato Architects creates a modular house that relates to its site.
Solar energy and geothermal help make these small homes energy efficient.
Built on a budget, this duplex supports quality of life with quantity of (day)light.
A university design/build program explores new territory in single-family housing.
Randy Brown, FAIA, LEED AP, is opposed to the typical suburban production home, so he designed the Elm model of the Hidden Creek 12-unit project to fly in the face of convention.
Our judges gave this project an award both for what it is--a modest production house model that exemplifies quality over quantity--and for what it isn't. "It's not McMansiony," said one judge.
Architect-developer Jonathan Segal, FAIA, wanted to build himself a house in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood. But he needed to find a way to finance it.
This project's unusually strong relationship to its desert site in a master planned community near Scottsdale, Ariz., earned it winning marks. "It's contextual with its surroundings and sits gently on the landscape," said one judge.