7.37.USA-9-detail-b cupola Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Sustainable homesteads speak to American self-reliance and reduce outside energy consumption. This sketch illustrates a farm complex in
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7.38.USA-9-detail-c Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Move with the land. This is the house that I designed for a friend’s parents on a beautiful beachfront property
7.40.USA-10-detail-a Edgartown Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Remote locations often require a keen look at energy, given high costs to deliver each kW. Martha’s Vineyard is
7.41.USA-10-detail-b New England Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: We can learn from an energy-smart river house. This sketch illustrates a “fish-scale” house in New Jersey,
7.44.USA-11-detail-a Gauley River, West Virginia Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Experience the power of nature firsthand. I was invited on a whitewater rafting trip. The experience
7.46.USA-12-detail-a Sun Valley, Idaho Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Go local with local materials, techniques, and talent. American settlers built their homes with local wood.
7.47.USA-12-detail-b Sun Valley, Idaho Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Continue to go local with local materials, techniques, and talent. This house has a stone hearth
7.48.USA-12-detail-c Sun Valley, Idaho Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Continue to go local with local materials, techniques, and talent. This river behind the house is loaded
7.49.USA-13 Adirondack New York – Lake House Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Engage all of your senses. Before our daughter, Carter, was born, my wife,
7.50.USA-14 Annapolis, Maryland – Severn River with Naval Academy beyond the left bridge Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Learn from sailing. Sailing is about as