1. Elevating the Art of Residential Design & Practice CRAN SYMPOSIUM SANTA FE, NM 2013

2. Learning Objectives Participants will gain knowledge of universal building techniques used throughout history, by indigenous people. With emphasis on response to regional and local environmental demands. Historical precedents will be explored with emphasis on the architects historical and current role in residential design, thru use of specific examples and details. Current trends in building technologies shown by built example, with respect to sustainable practices, and natural building trends. An examination of the universal impact of recent weather changes, “the super storm” on existing communities and recent past failures with respect to disregard of warning signs and environmental conditions.

3. Stuart Narofsky AIA, LEED AP Narofsky Architecture Process

4. “The Natural House Revisited” T o w a r d s b e c o m i n g a n a r c h I t e c t of d w e l l i n g s.

5. It had no sense of unity at all nor any such sense of space as should belong to a free people. It was stuck up in thoughtless fashion. It had no more sense of earth than a modernistic house. And it was stuck up on wherever it happened to be. the typical home had no sense of proportion, was constructed in a thoughtless fashion, lacked a sense of unity, and was riddled with holes for light and air. The windows were trimmed, the doors trimmed, the walls trimmed, the roof trimmed; only the floor spared of ornament or spindles because it would not be a practical walking surface. Frank Lloyd Wright 1954 ” “

6. Antebellum home, 19 th century

7. Villa Savoye Poissy, Paris: 1928-29

8. Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Oak Park, Illinois: 1889

9. Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House Chicago, Illinois: 1910

10. FLLW Phoenix, Arizona 1950

11. prospect and refuge

12. Rock cave cave dwelling

13. Rock cave and some occupants decorated

14. handmade primitive huts

16. early stilt house

17. they really needed them

19. Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

24. mud works well

26. and they built communities

27. and civilizations city of Bam in Iran: 500 BC

28. a system of scale and proportion sustainable design is naturally responsive

29. Pozzio Bracciolini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance, discovered the lost poem, “On the Nature of Things” by Lucretius. It’s reintroduction in history effectively changed it’s course and has influenced the likes of Galileo, Freud, Darwin, Einstein and Thomas Jefferson. 15 th century the imposition of the architect

31. Brunelleschi

32. When did they start imposing?

33. Palladio 16 th century universal thinking imposing style

34. Emergence of Technology provokes a sense of global awareness, changing in needs, and divergences of style. technology intervenes: Industrial revolution Crystal Palace Joseph Paxton 1851

35. Jacobethan (1830–70 the precursor to the Queen Anne style) Renaissance Revival (1840–90) Neo-Grec (1845–65) Romanesque Revival Second Empire (1855–80; originated in France) Queen Anne (1870–1910) Scots Baronial (predominantly Scotland) British Arts and Crafts movement (1880–1910) crowd goes wild

36. Though, some gave some thought… Louisiana elevated house 19 th century

37. Cracker House St. Augustine, Florida: 1910

38. european influence

39. Emergence of international style, regional disregard, material experimentation, new technologies, and the dichotomy of home, remembrance, and traditions lost. mid-century: modernism, & the international style… Maison Domino Le Corbusier 1914- 15

40. Villa La Roche Poissy, Paris: 1923 -1925 Le Corbusier

41. Gropius House Lincoln, Massachusetts: 1938 Walter Gropius

42. Mies Van Der Rohe Farnsworth House Plano, Illinois: 1951

43. Modern true believer, or postmodern skeptic

44. Paul Rudolph, architect Professional Foundation

45. Growing up Urban Housing Projects, Post WWII New York, New York

46. At the University “There is the paradox: how to become modern and to return to sources; how to revive an old, dormant civilization and take part in universal civilization”. - Paul Ricoeur UNIVERSAL Malcolm WellsWilliam MorganJohn Johanson REGIONAL

47. Arcosanti – Paolo Soleri 1970 – present Visit 1978 ” …sustainable design will emerge as the modernism of the new century.” …“Sustainable architects, on the other hand, tend to be motivated by operative and humanistic rather than formal concerns.” (Conserving Habitats, Kevin Pratt)

48. Emilio Ambasz

49. Thesis - 1978

50. Fiction Scene from “The Fountainhead” Post- modernism: Emergence of rejection towards the modernists ideologies, historical thought, deviating towards self-need and experimental work.

51. Fiction Reality Scene from “The Fountainhead”Philip Johnson, AT&T Building

52. Post - Modern Influence Robert Venturi – 1961-62

53. Post - Modern Influence Narofsky 1983 -85Robert Venturi – 1961-62

55. Ennis House

56. Rudolf Schindler - 1926Richard Neutra – 1946-1947 Rediscovering Modernism

57. Fried Residence Brookville, NY: 1989-91

60. Patel Residence Old Westbury, NY: 1993-97

64. Doshi Residence Great Neck, NY: 2002-05

67. Emergence of regional regard, & material experimentation. modern regionalism: critic of modernism Glenn Murcutt Simpson Lee House 1989-1984

68. Critical Regionalism has to be understood as a marginal practice, on which, while it is critical of modernization, nonetheless still refuses to abandon the emancipatory and progressive aspects of the modern architectural legacy. At the same time, Critical Regionalism’s fragmentary and marginal nature serves to distance it both from normative optimization and from the naive utopianism of the early Modern Movement. In contrast to the line that runs from Haussmann to Le Corbusier, if favors the small rather than the big plan. …In this regard Critical Regionalism manifests itself as a consciously bounded architecture, one which rather than emphasizing the building as a free-standing object places the stress on the territory to be established by the structure erected on the site. This ‘place-form’ means that the architect must recognize the physical boundary of his work as a kind of temporal limit – the point at which the present act of building stops. -Kenneth Frampton ‘Critical Regionalism: Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity’ “ ”

69. MacKy-Lyons Nova Scotia

70. Glen Murcutt Australia: 1982-84

71. Souto de Moura Baião, Portugal

72. high desert

73. “The needs of the inhabitants and the rhythm and character of the landscape in which they are embedded - at the same time – [are] connected to the specific spiritual atmospheres that we perceive as characteristic cultures.” - MIES

74. Taylor Residence Tuscon, AZ: 2003-2007

83. urban

84. Merin Residence New York, NY: 2009

93. what I think about…

94. Intervention of digital methodologies and and the emergence of parametric and free form software. Digital revolution: digital intervention Capitol Hill Residence Zaha Hadid 2006-present

95. Complacency & Transference the digital revolution

96. of being complacent

97. forms follow form libeskindhadid

98. process | 5 points

99. 1.Contemplation (your brain is the tool) thinking

100. 2. The hand (direct pipeline from the head)

101. 3. Delineate with tools(one step removed, and time delay)

102. 4. Digital design

103. 5. The edit process

105. the hill

106. Kerns McCall Residence Port Washington, NY: 2008

107. modularmodel

108. Plan

120. upscale suburbia

121. Greenfield Residence Old Westbury, NY: 2008 - 2012

122. Early Sketchbook Ideas

123. Early Elevation Studies

124. Site Plan

125. Model Studies

126. Geometry and Material Studies | Concrete, Wood, Polycarbonate

127. Geometry and Material Studies

128. Structural Sequence

131. Front view: rendering

132. Aerial view: rendering

141. tudor calling

142. “as we turn to a closer analysis of individual houses, this complexity will persist, revealing a society where the struggle to balance tradition and the new were constantly being recalibrated” - Lawerence Levine Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s

143. Feuer Residence Great Neck, NY: 2011 -2013

148. First floor

156. THANK YOU!