The first series of stories explores notable, and particularly cutting-edge,
residential architecture that makes turning a house into a home a bit more interesting than it
might seem at first.
The second series of stories demonstrates how residents make a city into
a community through acts of generosity and solidarity, especially in times of crisis.
Here we look at three modern homes designed by noted architects.
These homes, with their green efficiencies and varieties of unconventional
shapes that improvise on the templates of traditional Shaker Heights
housing, were designed not with whimsey but with purpose –
as residences for the architects themselves and their families.
(Shaker Life profiled two of these homes in past issues –
the Hisaka House and Dandelion House.)
A house, and in fact, a city, designed with intention and clear vision,
cannot help but become a place to be treasured. And as the residents of these homes,
and this community, make abundantly clear, bricks and mortar do not make
a place special. People do…
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It all
begins
in the
home.
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