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This is an early example of a "not so big" home, which lives large in detail rather than cubic footage. "It stopped me in my tracks emotionally," says builder Perry Bigelow of a house designed by Sarah Susanka (now well-known for her books on "not so big houses") featured in Fine Home Building...
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The home is the ultimate example of how to integrate a project into the landscape and play off the site's natural materials.As a student at the Yale School of Architecture, Dominick was inspired by the lectures of professor and architectural historian Vincent Scully, which brought the Sonoran...
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Builder Phil McCafferty just couldn't pick a favorite on our list of historic homes. They are all wonderful," says McCafferty of Delcor Homes, Milford, Mich. But asked to pick the homes that have most influenced him, without hesitation he named Tulsa, Okla., architect Jack Arnold's designs for...
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How a house lives is just as important, if not more important, than how it looks. The vice president of architecture and director of design at Don Gardner Inc., in Greenville, S.C., says that it's the perfect frame of reference for what to do and quite often, what not to do. "Designing my own house...
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This house was a pioneer in the open floor plan revolution and was a perfect fit for the clients."It was the most sophisticated ranch house I've ever seen," says Goff, president of Domus Design in Reno.
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Considering the site and natural context sets the tone and is the building block for a project. St. Joe, Mich., architect John Allegretti always knew he'd end up in the family profession, and it all started with the vacation home he helped his architect father build.
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No matter what the style, proper scale, proportion, and details can turn a good elevation into a great one. The residential designer, originally from Baton Rouge, La., favors Southern architecture flavored by influences from Spanish, French, and West Indies styles.
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This is an example of how fine materials and craftsmanship can really make a difference in the final product. It was the first time Kalman had worked with an architect of Gund's caliber, and the difference was immediately apparent.
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"I felt I was in heaven," says architect William J. Reese of the time from 1978 to 1982 he lived in one of the 12 Pueblo Ribera apartments.Architect Rudolph M. Schindler designed the one-bedroom La Jolla, Calif., apartments to be built as economically as vacation rentals.
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What homes have had the most influence on builders and architects? Our first annual Reader's Choice Survey finds out.The results were as varied as the more than 1,000 builders and architects polled.