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• join austin's 2010 cool house tour

  Austin Energy's 14th annual Cool House Tour will showcase the best in local sustainable home building.

• basics training

  For such a tiny house, this 320-square-foot dwelling in Marfa, Texas, serves many purposes. San Antonio architect Candid Rogers, AIA, designed it for himself as a weekend retreat. But the project also serves as a teaching tool for his University of Texas at San Antonio students, who make the...

• hardie boy

  Shipley Architects: James Hardie Building Products' fiber cement siding.

• vintage appeal

  Shipley Architects: DuroDesign's 100 percent postindustrial cork flooring.

• in the groove

  Shipley Architects: MBCI's corrugated metal roofing and wall materials.

• mckinney york architects

  Austin, Texas-based McKinney York Architects often weaves sustainable design ideas into its work. So when the 14-person firm moved into a building in the East Austin neighborhood last year, it worked hard to make the cost-conscious renovation as green as

• stock exchange

  At one point or another, almost every residential architect dreams of providing well-designed, affordable homes to the masses. Some try to reach this goal through prefab, while others become developers themselves.

• stone unturned

  Candid Rogers, AIA, fell in love with a two-room stone house built in 1873. When the architect decided to renovate the tiny structure as his own home, he honored its intimate feel with a similarly compact 960-square-foot addition.

• tower house, leander, texas

  Rather than remodel an old one-bedroom cottage as their main house, a Texas couple asked Andersson•Wise Architects to convert it into communal living space and to build this new tower for sleeping quarters adjacen

• cinco camp, brewster county, texas

  Rhotenberry Wellen Architects, Midland, Texas. Shipping container architecture is nothing new, but adapting the shells for living often undoes their built-in economy.