Greening the American Home
Preserve, protect, and delight.

What we design and build has a profound impact on the planet, our communities, and our lives. Integrating these conflicting priorities challenges even the most-forward thinking residential professionals. Frequently, we lose sight of the bigger issues in sustainable design while parsing products in green spec guides. residential architect magazine's second annual conference looks at the broader landscape of livable design, focusing on the essential themes that inform all great residential architecture.

Conference Highlights

Regionalism as Green Design
Rediscover what regional traditions can teach us about climate-, material-, and site-sensitive design

Paradigms of Place
Look beyond the house to neighborhoods and towns that weave sustainability into the fabric of the community

Sustainable Materials and Methods
Are the greenest materials old favorites like stone, wood and glass? Or are engineered products the high-performance building blocks of the future?

Future Shades of Green
Multidisciplinary practitioners discuss how our living environment may change as we truly embrace sustainable design.

Special Events
Housing Tour
Visit South Florida 's cutting-edge residential architecture

AQUA, Allison Island.
Town Planner : Duany Plater-Zyberk
Architects : Alison Spear, Walter Chatham, Alexander Gorlin, Hariri & Hariri, Allan T. Shulman Architect, Suzanne Martinson Architects, Brown Demandt Architects and Albaisa Musumano Architects

Villa Allegra, Sunset Island III.
Architect : Chad Oppenheim

Strang Residence, Coconut Grove.
Architect : Max Strang

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Design Charrette
Join together with residential architects throughout the country to set the path towards greening the American home.

CORA Returns
Annual meeting of The Congress of Residential Architecture. The grassroots organization for residential practitioners has issued a call for presentations. Follow up at info@corarchitects.org


Download Reinvention 2005 Presentations

Regionalism as Green Design
Speakers: Frank Harmon, Frank Harmon Architect
Ted Flato, Lake/Flato Architect
Brian MacKay-Lyons, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Paradigms of Place
Allison Ewing, Hays + Ewing Design Studio
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Duany Plater-Zyberk
Ross Chapin, Ross Chapin Architects

Greening the New House
Moderator: Peter Pfeiffer, Barley + Pfeiffer Architects
Greening Multifamily: Adaptive Use
Speaker: David Hacin, Hacin + Associates

Future Shades of Green
Speakers: Rick Harlan Schneider, Inscape Studio
Jason McLennan, BNIM Architects
Ken Wilson, Envision Design

Sustainable Materials and Methods for Residential Design
Moderator: John Connell, 2morrow Studio
Panelists: Peter Pfeiffer, Barley + Pfeiffer Architects
Sim Van der Ryn, Van der Ryn Architects