On the office walls of Aspen, Colorado-based DJArchitects, team photos show the staff mountain biking, hiking through meadows beside pristine lakes, or bombing downhill with powder flying. The exhilaration of outdoor sports in the stunning mid-Rockies setting serves as fuel for their award-winning designs. In the...
Architect Nick Deaver worked as a sole proprietor in Austin, Texas, for nearly two decades. But five years ago, he was joined by his daughter Jessica, who’d left a career in film, television, and writing to pursue an architecture degree, then worked for Pfeiffer Partners...
You’d think all the sustainability awards that Nathan Good Architects have won would be the primary draw for new clients. But much to the surprise of everyone in the Salem, Oregon-based firm, only about a third of their patrons desire an ambitiously energy-efficient home, says...
You don’t come across too many architecture firms named after a flower, but Seattle-based Heliotrope Architects chose a flower named for the Greek god of the sun, a flower that constantly turns its face to the light. In 1999, founders Joe Herrin and Mike Mora...
At the far end of a shallow alleyway in Santa Barbara’s El Pueblo Viejo neighborhood, a 19-by-19-foot four-story home wrapped in undulating white plaster has two large keyhole windows, an elliptical garage door, and a front light that dangles from a delicate iron pole stretching...
Sonoma, California-based architect Amy A. Alper has an ever-growing list of award-winning residential designs that, while modern, engage seamlessly with their Wine Country surroundings, employing so-called rustic materials in innovative ways. Since the catastrophic fire of 2017, and the yearly fires that have followed, her...
“People hire me for my imagination,” explains Craig Wickersham. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based architect designed his first home when he was only a teenager. His family lived in Santa Cruz, California, and his father was building a new house. The whole operation caught Wickersham’s attention, and he...
In November 2022, Williams Partners Architects will mark three decades in business. Over the years, the Ketchum, Idaho-based firm has built more than 100 houses and, currently, the six-member team is working on 30 projects. It’s an understatement to say they’ve put their mark on...
David Darling, co-founder and partner in the San Francisco-based Aidlin Darling Design, knew by age 6 that he would be an architect. Not so for co-founder and partner Joshua Aidlin. Despite having parents who were artists, Aidlin wanted to be a professional baseball player. [caption id="attachment_24643"...
SHED Architecture & Design is a bit of a maverick in today’s design world; they hue to a pragmatic rather than a conceptual line. That’s no accident. Based in Seattle, Washington, founders Prentis Hale and Thomas Schaer met while pursuing their masters in architecture at the...