ARCHITECTS CAN TALK A GOOD GAME ON THE SCALE, CONTEXT, and deftly put their work into the natural landscape and environment. Most au Courant fluent in the rhetoric of praise-down on the scale of the house and practically scoffs at the garish trophy home.
But the true test of all the architects' core beliefs are revealed in designing their homes for themselves.
In this small plot of land between two streets of Edgartown, one can build a domed Colonial spread throughout the property like a cargo ship ran aground. Someone could raise a very unneighborly giant box that eliminates the view and overwhelmed the perfectly proportioned famous antique house in the city. Someone could be built as high, wide and wild as the budget and allowed the building inspector.
Someone could have. Patrick Ahearn to not vote. "Historical environment no blank canvas with nature," said Boston-based architect and Vineyard. "So, the best design for my clients really the greater good of the environment, and that applies when I am my own client."
Ahearn confidence in the design that is consistent with the house next door may have come from unusual sources: the environment of his childhood in Levittown, New York.
For some people, 17,000 cookie cutter homes built on Long Island's potato fields in the 1950s no more than "Little Boxes" from the satirical ballad made famous by Pete Seeger. For the 55 years Ahearn However, post-World War II to realize the design development wisdom beyond providing affordable, practical shelter.
"Levittown house is designed to accommodate the expansion in the year as families and incomes grow. And they do it," said Ahearn. "So much so, there is little left that has not been extended. And they fit together as well now as when first built."
And in it found not only the subject Ahearn master's thesis at Syracuse University, but the principles he brings to his designs - including himself on a shady street in the heart of the former whalemen work environment.
He called the approach "scripting," in which he imagines a history of architecture and building on a site that can last for centuries.
During the whaling era, Ahearn's environment busied himself with merchants and sailors. The house is not grand waterfront mansions of captains and shipmasters, but modest homes for blacksmiths and shipwrights.
"So, for the house itself, I think this is a Federal Colonial 1700s house that at one point had built warehouse, which is then attached to the main body of the house. At some point in time, the owners converted barn as a home base for growing families, and they built a livery stable and carriage house at the rear of the property as a means of income, "said Ahearn. "And about 200 years later, I inherited the homestead and make a big renovation and restoration of this historic property."
source: www.boston.com
But the true test of all the architects' core beliefs are revealed in designing their homes for themselves.
In this small plot of land between two streets of Edgartown, one can build a domed Colonial spread throughout the property like a cargo ship ran aground. Someone could raise a very unneighborly giant box that eliminates the view and overwhelmed the perfectly proportioned famous antique house in the city. Someone could be built as high, wide and wild as the budget and allowed the building inspector.
Someone could have. Patrick Ahearn to not vote. "Historical environment no blank canvas with nature," said Boston-based architect and Vineyard. "So, the best design for my clients really the greater good of the environment, and that applies when I am my own client."
Ahearn confidence in the design that is consistent with the house next door may have come from unusual sources: the environment of his childhood in Levittown, New York.
For some people, 17,000 cookie cutter homes built on Long Island's potato fields in the 1950s no more than "Little Boxes" from the satirical ballad made famous by Pete Seeger. For the 55 years Ahearn However, post-World War II to realize the design development wisdom beyond providing affordable, practical shelter.
"Levittown house is designed to accommodate the expansion in the year as families and incomes grow. And they do it," said Ahearn. "So much so, there is little left that has not been extended. And they fit together as well now as when first built."
And in it found not only the subject Ahearn master's thesis at Syracuse University, but the principles he brings to his designs - including himself on a shady street in the heart of the former whalemen work environment.
He called the approach "scripting," in which he imagines a history of architecture and building on a site that can last for centuries.
During the whaling era, Ahearn's environment busied himself with merchants and sailors. The house is not grand waterfront mansions of captains and shipmasters, but modest homes for blacksmiths and shipwrights.
"So, for the house itself, I think this is a Federal Colonial 1700s house that at one point had built warehouse, which is then attached to the main body of the house. At some point in time, the owners converted barn as a home base for growing families, and they built a livery stable and carriage house at the rear of the property as a means of income, "said Ahearn. "And about 200 years later, I inherited the homestead and make a big renovation and restoration of this historic property."
source: www.boston.com
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