Christopher Hume’s piece with accompanying pictures was a useful reminder of the way our traditional, masculine, Euclidian-dominated, architecture has overwhelmed the primal, curve-focused lines that characterize the natural world. (There was a song, long ago, that made fun of our geometric habitations: “Little boxes; little boxes; little boxes made of ticky tack!”)

Keeping the owners’ interests in mind, designers at Rex Hohlbein Architects created a versatile, comfortable Seattle home for entertaining, cooking, art collecting and gardening. The architects used environmentally responsible materials and construction methods for the Clyde Hill home. The landscape of the contemporary home’s surroundings are brought in through large windows and structural openings, but [...]

Over the last year, Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture graduate and undergraduate students have been blogging on PrairieMod about their project to build a small modern home on the grounds of Taliesin West. The students, with help of Jennifer Siegal of OMD and others, designed a simple but elegant home with sustainability [...]

Architect: Carlos Ferrater & Jimenez Brasa Arquitectos
Location: Granada, Spain
Collaborators: Luis Gonzalo Arias Recalde, David Molina Carneros, Cristian Eugen Boz
Project Year: 2004
Construction Year: 2005-2008
Promotor: Consortium Parque de las Ciencias
Structural Engineering: Juan Calvo / Pondio
Main Contractor: Dragados S.A.
Acoustics: Higini Arau
Technical Architects: Francisco Javier Gonzalez Escolano, José Moreno Gómez
Building contributor: David Molina Carneros
Constructed Area: 48,377 sqm
Budget: US $50.45 [...]