Publications

Brooklyn Row House: Urban Home Rehabilitated with Air and Light in Mind

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Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Primary Material System: Contemporary wood window systems
How do you bring light and openness into a dense urban rowhouse while respecting neighborhood context and history?
This 1891 four-story row house is in Brooklyn, New York, in a historical district called Park Slope, known for its tree-lined streets and brownstones. This particular home was bought by a young family in 2014 and rehabilitated to become their own unique....

Palms Residence: House Inside a Garden

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Location: Venice, California
Primary Material System: Minimal wood and glass fenestration
How do you dissolve the boundary between architecture and landscape on a compact urban garden property?
Rather than talking about a house with a garden, Gillian Wynn, interior designer and home owner of Palms Residence in Venice, California, says, “I actually like to think of this as a house set inside a garden.” Indeed, for Wynn, it was the property’s prolific greenery that...
Modern rustic farmhouse at night

Aptos Retreat Residence: Modern Farmhouse with Rustic Aesthetic

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Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Primary Material System: Rustic-modern wood window systems
How do you merge refined modern architecture with the rugged informality of a coastal mountain retreat?
Set in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California, this farmhouse residence was designed by Cass Calder Smith (CCS) Architecture for a San Francisco couple with six children. The home is grounded in the landscape of an expansive twenty-acre site, located just inland from the beach town of Aptos on a steep bluff.
contemporary wooden windows in Oz Park home

Oz Park Residence: Groundbreaking Green Home in Chicago

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Location: Chicago, Illinois
Primary Material System: High-performance wood windows
How do you create a highly sustainable urban family home without losing warmth, openness, or emotional connection to nature?
One of the most prominent push features in the design of the home is its bay windows, supplied by Dynamic Fenestration. These floor-to-ceiling custom wood windows are found throughout the home on every level, pushing out key interior spaces and pulling in landscaped courtyards, green roofs, and park views.
Olson Kundig Dragonfly House on a lake

Dragonfly House: Modern Montana Retreat on Former Campsite

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Location: Montana, USA
Primary Material System: Minimal steel and glass assemblies
How do you preserve the emotional experience of camping while delivering the comfort and permanence of a luxury residence?
Designed by Olson Kundig architects and constructed by Bear Mountain Builders, the house was meant to embrace its natural environment in a way that allowed the family to experience the setting almost like they were still camping.
Aluminum clad pocketing sliding doors and wood window wall in garage

Light Path Residence: Thoughtful Design Promotes Wellbeing

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Location: Rural Pennsylvania
Primary Material System: Large-format wood glazing systems
How do you design a wellness-focused home that maximizes daylight and serenity without overwhelming the surrounding landscape?
Designed by the architects of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, this elongated single-level home is the second residence on the family’s farmland estate in rural Pennsylvania. The first residence was built some fifty years earlier and was, interestingly, designed by the same architects.
Aluminum thermally broken windows frame forest views

Riparian Retreat with Aluminum Thermally Broken Windows

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Location: Aspen, Colorado
Primary Material System: Thermally broken aluminum systems
How do you achieve expansive modern glazing beside a river corridor exposed to harsh alpine climate conditions?
Just outside of Aspen, Colorado, where a small creek runs into the Roaring Fork River and a quiet street follows the riverbank, there is an extraordinary new residence constructed by local builders, Koru Limited, and designed by local architects and interior designers at Forum Phi.
Exterior night view of lighted modern home with residential window walls

Caddy Shack Residence: Daring Design Perched Over a Texas Ravine

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Location: Austin, Texas
Primary Material System: Oversized steel and glass systems
How do you suspend dramatic architecture over rugged terrain while maintaining openness, stability, and precision?
Overlooking the city of Austin, Texas, this new residence for a former professional golfer was designed by the architects of Olson Kundig.
Brooklyn rowhouse with a modern window update

Brooklyn Rowhouse with A Modern Update

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Location: Brooklyn, New York
Primary Material System: Traditional wood windows with contemporary detailing
How do you modernize a historic urban rowhouse without erasing its architectural identity?
Although rowhouses have been popular as single-family dwellings since the late 18th century and have brought architectural uniformity to city living, this particular home was bought by a young family in 2014, gutted and then customized to become their own unique expression of urban living.

A Modern Take on a Country Garden House

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Situated to be in harmony with its lush landscape, this home…