Residential Architect Magazine: Affordable

The Global Studio builds public service architecture into a sustainable business model.

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:00:41 EST

The Seattle-based firm delivers architectural expertise to underserved communities at home and abroad.

Profile: Nils Finne, AIA

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:04:35 EST

Nils Finne, AIA, has long exemplified the highly skilled regional practitioner. Based in Seattle, he draws on Asian, Scandinavian, and mid-century modernist influences in work that distills the environmental and cultural currents of the contemporary Pacific Northwest.

Green Lantern

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:30:39 EST

Affordable housing's ecosystem

Small Firm Creates Nonprofit to Execute More Pro Bono Architecture

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:58:25 EST

A Washington, D.C.-based architecture firm recently formed a separate entity to do more pro bono and reduced-fee design.

ra50: Andrew Maynard Architects

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:14:15 EST

Andrew Maynard Architects produces architecturally inspired houses.

ra50: Brooks + Scarpa

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:21:15 EST

Whether high-end or low-budget, Brooks + Scarpa's inventive work enhances the built environment.

ra50: David Baker + Partners Architects

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:37:07 EST

At David Baker + Partners in San Francisco, sustainable design is a way of life.

ra50: Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:25:21 EST

Johnsen Schmaling enjoys pushing itself into new conceptual territory.

ra50: Koning Eizenberg Architecture

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:23:37 EST

Koning Eizenberg’s buildings address urban design challenges beautifully and intelligently.

ra50: Michelle Kaufmann Studio

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:35:48 EST

Michelle Kaufmann extols the virtues of modular modern design with a sustainable twist.

eric naslund, faia, and john sheehan, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:15:18 EST

When the principals at Studio E Architects fell into designing a charter school a few years ago, little did they know the project type would help see them through the current downturn.

cover story: after the storm

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:48:59 EST

In this report, we've endeavored to illuminate the good and the bad, the true signs of hope and the harsh realities of its absence. Over and over, Gulf Coast architects emphasize that people around the country need to know what's really going on in this still-devastated but still-compelling area.

profile: marcel wisznia, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:10:53 EST

When people talk about good things happening in downtown New Orleans, the name Marcel Wisznia, AIA, tends to come up. That's because this local architect/developer has completed one of the few projects built there since Hurricane Katrina—The Union Lofts, a mixed-use renovation in the Central Business District. Leasing the ground floor to a bank tenant, Wisznia and his staff converted the second through fourth floors of the former Western Union telegraph operating station into 33 furnished rental apartments with flat-screen TVs, 10-foot to 14-foot ceilings, and a rooftop deck.

profile: wayne troyer, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:08:36 EST

In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans architect Wayne Troyer, AIA, bounced between friends' houses in Alabama and Louisiana. All the while, he frantically awaited the latest news of his home city. “I e-mailed like crazy ... we were all trying to regain our sanity,” he recalls. When he finally made his way back to New Orleans and located his staff, they worked out of his house in the Lower Garden District for six months while their Warehouse District office underwent repairs.

profile: byron mouton, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:11:29 EST

Byron Mouton, AIA, never intended to stay in his hometown of New Orleans. He left for graduate school at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., then worked in Europe for a couple of years. On his way to San Francisco for a job interview in 1997, he stopped to see his family in the Crescent City and stayed for good. He started teaching at the architecture school at Tulane, his undergraduate alma mater, and eventually opened his own small studio, called bildDESIGN.

marianne cusato

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:10:20 EST

It's fast, dignified, affordable, and flexible. It's the Katrina Cottage, Marianne Cusato's nifty alternative to the ugly FEMA trailers that were handed out after Hurricane Katrina.

andrés duany

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:14:48 EST

Two months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita flattened huge swathes of the Gulf Coast last summer, a flotilla of Congress for the New Urbanism members descended on Mississippi to design a way out of the devastation.

john v. mutlow

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:24:40 EST

As everyone knows, the British Invasion of the 1960s brought John, Paul, George and Ringo to American shores. But the United States welcomed another talented U.K. import around the same time: John V. Mutlow, FAIA.

john peterson

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:24:39 EST

Most of the time, John Peterson, AIA, projects a laid-back personality—the kind you'd expect him to have after 15 years in mellow San Francisco. But get him talking about a project that Public Architecture, the nonprofit he founded, is working on, and suddenly he can't talk quickly or enthusiastically enough.

walking the walk

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:23:40 EST

David Baker, FAIA, doesn't own a car. It's not because he doesn't know how to drive one, and, as the head of an in-demand San Francisco firm, it's not because he can't afford to buy one. No, Baker got rid of all three of his cars a few years ago to make a point.