new discoveries

wandering around the mt. washington neighborhood, one of those wonderful discoveries happened. so much of the architecture that inhabits our city villages and neighborhoods are speculative throw-ups (pun intended), cheaply built, badly designed habitates (more about commercial properties later) that fail to interact with our great landscape and bengin weather.

if you look at drawings from the original settlers, they built abodes that took full advantage of the natural environment, as well as providing an interior that interacts with the same surroundings. the architecture of the modernist movement provided a mid-century answer to that same environmental setting; an altenative that melded the modernist sensibilities with the spanish and mexican abodes were created by the california ranch house, taking advantage of the natural materials and colors, with the design asthetics of the modernist housing design elements.

the current architects of the city, responsive to natural ecology, new building techniques and materials, are building new housing reflective of these needs, and the clients expectations. one house being built in the mt. washingotn neighborhood is known as the nobhillhause, http://nobhillhaus.blogspot.com/ designed by local architects for their own residence. in their blog accompanying the ongoing design, have created a contemporary residence with the city's first approved greywater system. the design and construction elements can be followed at the blog,

other noteworthy housing projects will be followed, in order to support these ongoing developments with as much exposure as possible.