The 2023 Residential Design Architecture Awards (RDAA) received nearly 400 entries in 11 categories of residential design. With such a…
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COR-TEN Tree House, named for its setting in a woodsy Washington, D.C., suburb, is almost unrecognizable from its original form. But…

Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains are an unlikely location for the nation’s first subdivision that mandated modernist design. So it’s something…

Small and single-purpose, a pool house is that quintessential object that can be precisely designed down to the smallest of…
RD ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

The 2023 Residential Design Architecture Awards (RDAA) received nearly 400 entries in 11 categories of residential design. With such a…

Fourteen feet wide and about 100 feet long, this skinny house on a 3,000-acre working cattle ranch ups the ante…

“In Texas, when it rains, it pours,” says architect Cotton Estes. This suburban house for a young couple (one is…

With its lofty views of the San Francisco skyline, this otherwise banal apartment unit was ripe for reinvention. Low‑ceilinged and…

“When our clients approached us about doing this house, they told us that they liked our work, but they really…
INDUSTRY NEWS
rivate residential construction spending inched down 0.2% in March, as spending on single-family construction decreased 0.8%. Spending on private residential…
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Architecture firms reported a modest increase in March billings. This positive news was tempered by a slight decrease in…
Stepping in as 2023 chair of the AIA CRAN Knowledge Community, I am filled with gratitude for those who have…
RD INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Small and single-purpose, a pool house is that quintessential object that can be precisely designed down to the smallest of…

Everyone wins when locally harmonious building materials dovetail with the demands of a modest budget. Napa is largely rural, after…

The couple, a landscape designer and a hairdresser, already owned a small compound of sorts—two bungalows (one pink and one…

Renovation is often a wonderful thing, but in the wrong hands—whether client or architect—it can inflict greater harm than good.…

Historic overlays govern many neighborhoods across the country, prescribing and proscribing many characteristics of new home construction and remodels. The…
ON THE BOARDS

When you’re a residential architect, you’re in the business of delivering dream houses. But what happens when your clients’ dream…
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Working largely on the West Coast, Feldman Architecture already faces some of the strictest building codes in the nation, but…
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When you design a house in Hawaii, you dare not compete with the scenery. In this case, the views are…
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Fourteen feet wide and about 100 feet long, this skinny house on a 3,000-acre working cattle ranch ups the ante…
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In 1998, Scott Edwards took a job as a project manager for a small Seattle builder named Dovetail. He left…

Architect Nick Deaver, AIA, has deep roots in Texas. He grew up there and went to school at Texas Tech,…

When he launched ThinkMakeBuild in Washington, D.C., in 2010, Darren Kornas made two decisions that now seem prescient. One was…

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