Build Your Own Version of 2013's "Small Home of the Year"
Fri, Jun 21, 2013Nir Pearlson wins Fine Homebuilding's Small Home of the Year with this open and airy cottage. You can build your own version of this award-winning small home.
Dan Gregory
Daniel P. Gregory is Editor-in-Chief of Houseplans.com, the largest online source of architectural house plans. The author of Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House (Rizzoli, 2008) as well as numerous articles on California architecture for magazines and books, Dan holds a Ph. D. in architectural history from U. C. Berkeley.
At Houseplans.com he has developed an expanding collection of exclusive plans by award-winning architects from across the country and around the world, from Not So big House author/architect Sarah Susanka to Melbourne modernist Leon Meyer. His weekly blog Eye On Design covers home news and trends.
Before joining Houseplans.com he was Senior Home Editor of Sunset Magazine, where he ran the AIA-Sunset Western Home Awards Program, helped develop the Sunset Breezehouse prefab by Michelle Kaufmann, and served as editorial director for the magazine’s Idea House Program.
Website URL: http://www.houseplans.com
Camping Influences Home Design
Sat, May 18, 2013If you’re planning to build a house on a rural site, it’s a good idea to try to camp there first, to get a sense of the site’s key features and best orientations. These houses blur the boundary between indoors and outdoors.
The Bathing Pavilion Idea
Fri, Apr 26, 2013Bath houses and shower houses have been a part of the human experience for centuries, but what role can they play now?
The New Exploratorium on the Embarcadero
Thu, Apr 18, 2013San Francisco’s famous Exploratorium – the museum of science, art, and human perception founded by physicist Frank Oppenheimer (brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer) in 1969 – has a new home that opened officially on April 17, 2013.
