A Chicago firm finds beauty in restraint.
Gray Organschi's houses define the luxury of scarcity: creating richness with simple moves.
Firm partners Jeffrey L. Day and E.B. Min make every site specific.
John Brown, RAIC, is on a profound mission, one that doesn't involve anything as mundane as scaling K2 or swimming the English Channel. The soft-spoken Canadian wants to simultaneously improve the quality of mass-market housing and make better houses more
Luis Ibarra just had one of his original music compositions performed by a local high school orchestra.
In the vestibule of Joeb Moore's office building on Greenwich Avenue, the busy retail corridor that runs down to Long Island Sound, a 10-foot-tall black “iPod” shows a continuous loop of digital photos of the firm's work, and passersby on the street stop
For Southern Californians, Taal Safdie and Ricardo Rabines do quite a bit of walking. The two architects walk 7-year-old Raquel, the youngest of their three children, to her elementary school on weekday mornings.
David Hacin, AIA, knows everyone. The 44-year-old architect can't walk through Boston's South End, where he lives and works, without a stream of greetings from shopkeepers, neighbors, and fellow dog owners. Even in the city's other neighborhoods, he regularly runs into friends and acquaintances...
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An enterprising San Diegan wants urban housing done right -- so he does it himself.
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At the end of his first decade of practice, Gurney's mixed materials and svelte forms usher modernism into the new millennium.