 Clem Labine
"Modernist architects once again are trying to sell hard-edged houses to the American public. A new home plan service called Hometta has been set up to offer "modern homes for the masses." Hometta is a collaboration of several architectural studios whose goal is to provide "small, sleek, sustainable, affordable house plans for middle-class buyers."
 Kim O'Connell
"A barrier island is rarely still. The sand is always shifting, the winds are blowing, and every so often a hurricane bulldozes through. People and buildings come and go. Such is the case with the Outer Banks, a thin strip of barrier islands on the coast of North Carolina. I've been vacationing on the Banks off and on for 30 years
– ever since I was a little girl
– and was there again just last week with my family."
 Dan Cooper
"Over the past year or so, I’ve traveled around the country meeting and interviewing some of the most accomplished architects in the field of historic preservation and historically inspired residential construction. Their collective body of work is diverse, and each firm has improved the built environment aesthetically and functionally, often from a sustainable perspective."
 Rudy Christian
" Last weekend, I had the pleasure of spending time at the Preservation Institute Nantucket, a well-respected and established summer field-school program of the University of Florida. The weather wasn’t much to write home about, unless you’re one of those people who enjoys cold wind and rain, but the historic architecture was interesting, if you like grey weathered wood shingles and white trim as far as the eye can see."
 Aimee Buccellato
"While many today seek new ways to construct and express the 'new epoch,' it is important to consider whether sustainability is, and will be, a purely contemporary issue, and whether high-tech expressionism and experimentation are in fact appropriate
– or more effective
– in either the near term, as manifestations of a constantly changing condition, or in the long term, for the very same reason.”
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