John Ike’s new book is at once a chronicle of a gifted architect’s work in a number of styles – and a salute to the firm where he worked for 33 years. Nine Houses/Nine Stories looks at recent architecture, coast to coast, by Ike Kligerman Barkley. The firm split up, amicably, into three entities...
Ocean Home magazine’s online version recently ran a story I wrote for its print edition. It’s about a project by Connecticut-based Wadia Associates – a rethinking of a 1980s Arts& Crafts-style home on Long Island Sound. A+A is pleased to repost it today: J. MICHAEL WELTON A 1980s...
Ocean Home magazine recently ran an online feature I wrote about a Mark de Reus-designed home on the southwest coast of Maui. It was a tight lot and the architect took total advantage of it. A+A is pleased to post it here today: The site may be small, but the views are stunning. On […]
Early on in his sketchbook, for a residential project in Miami Beach, architect Rene Gonzalez wrote down two words: “Sexy Monastery.” Contradictory? Sure – but that’s the direction he chose to follow. “Those were two contrasting things that don’t go together, I knew,” he says. “But...
There’s a sea change afoot in North Carolina’s architecture community. It’s evident not just in the record number of 19 entries for the 2023 George Matsumoto Prize, sponsored by NCMODERNIST. There’s also the influx of new architecture firms entering the much-coveted competition. Now in its 12th...
Two Scottsdale-based firms have joined forces to create a designer series of modern guest houses. Zander Diamont, co-founder of Minimal Living Concepts, a builder of accessory dwelling units, approached Kaitlyn Wolfe, principal designer Iconic for two new design packages. Each can be applied to MLC’s...
A recent issue of Traditional Building magazine offered a feature-length article I penned on the preservationists, architects and artisans who have worked steadily over the past 34 years to restore Thomas Jefferson’s design for his Bedford County retreat – as well as the finish work by his enslaved...
Ocean Home magazine recently published a feature article I wrote about the renovation of a home on Long Island Sound. It had been built in the early century in Greenwich, and over the years had fallen into disrepair, until architect Charles Hilton took on a total remake. A+A is pleased to re-post it here...
Ocean Home magazine online recently published a feature I wrote about a team effort to reinvent a 1950s home at Laguna Beach. Architect Chris Light, landscape architect Mike Dilley, and interior designers Michael Fullen, Omar Enany and Kelsey Bigelow worked to give an older home a new and timeless look....
Every architect has to get a break somewhere. And for Oscar Niemeyer, it came in Belo Horizonte, the sixth largest city in Brazil. In the 1940s the mayor asked him to design four buildings – a church, a yacht club, a casino and a ballroom. “He wanted to create a new area,” says photographer Paul...
