PHILOSOPHY
Why do Americans put so much emphasis on houses?
After all, there are but a few styles that can be designated “American.” A bungalow, for example was developed as a pure American style for not only the way we lived during the early 20th ostentatious Victorian era brought to us from Europe to a more American home, a more refined and simple style, more relaxed. It was a time of reflection and a time when America desired an identity of its own, and ever since then the house has been the center of family life, and to some an oasis away from an increasingly complicated world.
And everyone has their idea of what “home” means. Our projects have ranged from restoration of a 120-year-old burned out shell to a brand new “Tuscan Villa” complete with carriage house. Whether we are restoring a home or building a new addition to the family farmhouse, we are creating a “home” that is expressly unique, a place that is the culmination of an individual’s dream brought forth through the architect’s understanding of that individual’s desire, not the architect’s own personal whims. The focus is on place and what a house should be to someone, what it should look like in order to convey its psychological and material functions. After all, it is a family shelter and it should not only be well designed and well executed, but it should also be the individual’s ideas brought forth through the architect’s vision.
After all, there are but a few styles that can be designated “American.” A bungalow, for example was developed as a pure American style for not only the way we lived during the early 20th ostentatious Victorian era brought to us from Europe to a more American home, a more refined and simple style, more relaxed. It was a time of reflection and a time when America desired an identity of its own, and ever since then the house has been the center of family life, and to some an oasis away from an increasingly complicated world.
And everyone has their idea of what “home” means. Our projects have ranged from restoration of a 120-year-old burned out shell to a brand new “Tuscan Villa” complete with carriage house. Whether we are restoring a home or building a new addition to the family farmhouse, we are creating a “home” that is expressly unique, a place that is the culmination of an individual’s dream brought forth through the architect’s understanding of that individual’s desire, not the architect’s own personal whims. The focus is on place and what a house should be to someone, what it should look like in order to convey its psychological and material functions. After all, it is a family shelter and it should not only be well designed and well executed, but it should also be the individual’s ideas brought forth through the architect’s vision.
