Architectural History

Developers of The Ponds save place for farmhouse (The Post and Courier)

12 May 2008

SUMMERVILLE — Less sensitive developers might have viewed the 19th-century farmhouse here as an obstacle to their plans, but the developers of The Ponds community here saw it as a potential focal point. After an extensive renovation, they've made their case.

Post-Katrina housing fits designers' agendas. But can the city live with it? (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

12 May 2008

NEW ORLEANS - The style wars between the modernists, the traditionalists, and the free-thinking blobists were the farthest thing from Vernessa Rogers' mind when she was asked to choose from a group of sleek house designs commissioned by actor/architecture buff Brad Pitt.

CABIN FEVER‘History worth saving’ (The State)

12 May 2008

At its core, the old Lindler house on Broad River Road might be one of the oldest structures in Richland County. It’s certainly one of the luckiest. How else to explain a conservationist taking a different route home one day, noticing the construction signs and spotting the unusual aspects of a house on the property? And how else to explain a developer first letting the conservationist nose ...