Residential Architect Magazine: Sustainable

15 Young Firms to Watch: in situ studio, Raleigh, N.C.

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:43:12 EST

Launched in the midst of a recession, in situ studio succeeds by combining big-league talent with rookie enthusiasm.

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: Ehrlich Architects

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:32:51 EST

Innovative design and a commitment to sustainability mark Ehrlich Architects' work.

ra50: Frank Harmon Architect

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:08:18 EST

Frank Harmon has spent the past three decades fine-tuning his thoughtful, regional modernism.

ra50: Lake|Flato Architects

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:22:43 EST

In Texas and beyond, Lake|Flato makes architecture that resonates with the landscape.

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.

top firm: the miller|hull partnership

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:54:50 EST

No region of the United States has a stronger, more deeply rooted, or more characteristically regional modernist architecture than the Pacific Northwest.

david arkin, aia, leed ap, and anni tilt

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:17:41 EST

David Arkin, AIA, LEED AP, and Anni Tilt have a hard time turning people away. Clients seek out the firm for its expertise in sustainable design, and the husband-and-wife-led team enjoys taking on a mix of residential, commercial, and community projects.

top firm: michelle kaufmann, aia, leed ap

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:15:10 EST

It all started with a headache.

in the middle of nowhere

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:23:26 EST

Alongside the unpaved road to Lori Ryker and Brett W. Nave's home and studio, alpacas and horses nibble placidly at the surrounding grassland. Dusty pickup trucks drive well under the posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour. The Livingston, Mont., compoun

peter pfeiffer

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:24:42 EST

Earth Day—the first one, back in 1970—was a catalyst for Peter Pfeiffer, FAIA.

keeping up with the joneses

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:10:26 EST

Today Jones Studio employs 11 people who work on jobs as varied as houses, schools, performing arts centers, and office buildings. “Everyone does everything,” says Rob Viergutz, an architect at the firm. “That's part of the appeal of working here.” Their

Rising Star: David Hacin AIA

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:37 EST

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, often from the close-knit local design community. “I grew up in a small town,” he says, by way of explanation. “There's something [I like] about knowing the lay of the land.”

2005 leadership awards

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:18:43 EST

As we, the editors of residential architect, selected this year's Leadership Award winners, we sensed a deeper undercurrent of importance to this mission. That change in the air we all feel signifies a moment in time when architects finally have the ear of the American public once again. They are listening, they are learning, and they are hungry for answers to their questions.

Top Firm: Frank Harmon Architect

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:15:53 EST

Frank Harmon has won his fair share of accolades for design over the years. But no occasion evoked such a pointed reaction to his work as the judging of the entries for AIA North Carolina in 1999, when Harmon swept the competition by winning three out of four Honor Awards in his home state.

Hall of Fame: Sim Van der Ryn

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:15:49 EST

Decades after the first Earth Day thrust the environment into our nation's collective consciousness, the green building movement has just begun to gel. Although sustainable design is still a hard sell—and represents just a sliver of the housing market—it has come a long way since its origins in the back-to-nature movement of the 1960s.

natural habitat

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:23:42 EST

David Arkin and Anni Tilt, husband-and-wife architects in Berkeley, Calif., live with their two children in a refurbished 1910 farmhouse outfitted with solar panels and a wind turbine. They walk or bike the five blocks to their solar-powered office, a new building beside a creek.

change of heart

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:23:00 EST

As a young architect a few years out of Notre Dame in the late 1960s, John Torti, FAIA, had an awakening. "I was working at a boutique firm in the Midwest, idealistic and starving, and realized you couldn't make money doing the kind of architecture you dream about in school," he says. "I bundled up all those ideals and put them in a box under my bed."