ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME is proud and delighted to provide an exclusive look inside the ASPIRE HOUSE Princeton Designer Show House.
On Saturday, Garrett and I had an entire free day with nothing to do. Well, I worked until around 11:30am, but I had dropped Teddy off for a little vacation for the weekend and Garrett and I had the Chevy Traverse that GM had loaned us. We could have gone anywhere! I spent about twenty...
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Simple exterior home renovations can produce dramatic results. The Lasley Brahaney Architecture + Construction design build team enhanced the main house exterior with a front porch addition while custom building the garage and enclosed breezeway. Our architects make the complicated look simple.
ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME is proud and delighted to provide an exclusive look inside the ASPIRE HOUSE Princeton Designer Show House.
ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME is proud and delighted to provide an exclusive look inside the ASPIRE HOUSE Princeton Designer Show House.
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TenBerke has finished the 510-student capacity at Princeton University Residential Colleges. The 11-acre, 485,000-square-foot extension is the first phase of
A peek inside the book. Courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press (papress.com). Photo 2 of 9 in Building the Maxon House: Week 5. Browse inspirational photos of modern homes. From midcentury modern to prefab housing and renovations, these stylish spaces suit every taste.
Restored and revitalized! Our Princeton design-build team orchestrated an elaborate home renovation restoring this 1906 historic landmark. A newly expanded custom built kitchen, three-car garage and mudroom addition, and (6) new bathrooms are the new highlights of this spectacular home.
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A house in Princeton, New Jersey designed by Levenbetts is organised around a courtyard, offering views of a private garden as well as the surrounding wood
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TenBerke has finished the 510-student capacity at Princeton University Residential Colleges. The 11-acre, 485,000-square-foot extension is the first phase of
We have designed two new residential colleges for Princeton University, each to serve 510 students. The 485,000 square-foot project sits on 11 acres and represents a major expansion of the campus and…
We have designed two new residential colleges for Princeton University, each to serve 510 students. The 485,000 square-foot project sits on 11 acres and represents a major expansion of the campus and…
Image 23 of 23 from gallery of Princeton House / LEVENBETTS. Diagram 4
TenBerke has finished the 510-student capacity at Princeton University Residential Colleges. The 11-acre, 485,000-square-foot extension is the first phase of
Completed in 2014 in Princeton, United States. Images by Naho Kubota . The Princeton House sits in a long thin 3-acre site, a former White Pine tree farm, 10 minutes from Princeton University. The site is punctuated by...
Restored and revitalized! Our Princeton design-build team orchestrated an elaborate home renovation restoring this 1906 historic landmark. A newly expanded custom built kitchen, three-car garage and mudroom addition, and (6) new bathrooms are the new highlights of this spectacular home.
Repurposing a 1929 Collegiate Gothic building as the new academic home for Princeton’s Economics Department
Modern wooden basement interior design by Princeton Design Collaborative.
The historic and architectural legacy of the eating clubs has been documented in a new coffee-table book published by the Princeton Prospect Foundation.
The brilliant architect, Andrew Skurman, has ateliers in San Francisco and Paris. In his dazzling new book, he offers the inside scoop on classical architecture, with beautiful illustrations, elegant watercolors, plans, images and drawings. In 255 pages, he offers insight into an often-arcane topic. Skurman’s wonderful compendium, which includes twenty projects, takes readers into his firm’s classical contemporary architecture and gives a privileged view of how architecture starts, develops, and is refined and designed. Andrew Skurman’s book is full of ideas, information, expertise and his exquisite taste. Andrew Skurman is inspired by a broad range of classical architecture, from Greek and Roman, to French, Italian, Georgian English, and perhaps above all by Palladio. City apartments, a colonial country house, a chic Paris apartment, an Italianate lakeside villa, a French Renaissance house, and a Norman-style carriage house are all in his vocabulary. “Today, heavily ornamented rooms look old-fashioned, and we love to exercise restraint,” he said. “I sometimes wonder about the future of my houses, asking myself what will become of them as time passes. I hope that the children who grow up in them will recall their childhood homes as places of beauty and comfort. I hope that the families that dwell within will be remembered for having lived there in happiness.” In the Foreword to Skurman’s book, by Diane Lewis, a fellow student at Cooper Union in the seventies, she writes, “There is a dramatic interdependence between the austere and the voluptuous in Skurman’s work. His experiments with materials and collisions of style are reflected in his selections, fabrication, and placement of works of art, objects and materials. His approach to the issue of cultural memory and the challenge of historic precedent in architecture is uniquely embodies in his process.” The Architectural Aphorisms of Architect Andrew Skurman • Each architectural period has its measure of ornament. Today, too much is too much, too little is boring; we are in a time of balance. • In an ideal architectural world, it takes three to tango: The client, the interior designer, and the architect. • Based on European philosophy, science and arts, this country built its own culture. What I am doing is quintessentially American: I'm bringing the splendor of European architecture to modern America. • Classical architecture is like European languages: there are many. The more fluent you are in several, the better you express yourself. • What is the most important architecture? It is the one that moves people the most, today and over the centuries. • The great British architect Quinlan Terry believes that architecture is of divine origin. Some scientists believe that the laws of physics and mathematics are of divine origin. • When I see great art and architecture, it brings about the feeling of transcendence. • Some patrons treat architects like part time servants, others like admired artists. It says little about the architect, a lot about the patron. • We see how admirable the architecture of the past was, but we forget that only the exceptional has remained. This leaves room for the architecture of the present and the future. I would like to come back in a hundred and again in a thousand years, to see what is left. • Each artist has an intimate evaluation of his own work. I'm convinced that Palladio, Michelangelo, Mozart knew that we would continue to celebrate their glory hundreds of years later, and that their names would be unforgettable. ARCHITECTS SPEAK — Andrew Skurman's favorite quotes on the meaning, ideas, magic, and work of architecture: “Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.” —Louis Kahn “Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”—Louis Kahn “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” —Daniel Libeskind “Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.” —Adolf Loos “We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.” — Christopher Alexander “There is a role and function for beauty in our time.” —Tadao Ando “Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well-being.” — Luis Barragan “I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.” — Luis Barragan “The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.” — Adolf Loos “There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.” —Edwin Lutyens “The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.” — Thom Mayne “Architecture is a visual art, and buildings speak for themselves.” —Julia Morgan “My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.” — Julia Morgan Biography of the architect: Architect Andrew Skurman founded his firm in San Francisco in 1992. As principal and owner of Andrew Skurman Architects, he focuses on superbly crafted custom residences that are logically planned to the specific requirements and wishes of his clients. His expertise lies in the elegant and refined expression of Classical architecture and the interpretation of French, Georgian, and Mediterranean styles. Skurman recently received the honor of being named a Chevalier of Arts & Letters by the Minister of Culture of France. He is an appointed member of the prestigious Council of Advisors of the National Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. He currently serves as Creative Director of the San Francisco Fall Antique Show. Skurman is currently designing projects in Northern and Southern California, New York, Nevada, France and China. Skurman received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1976 from Cooper Union in New York City. He began his design career apprenticing with the New York firm of I.M. Pei & Partners from 1976 to 1980. He worked in the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and later as a Studio Director at Gensler and Associates in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Residences designed by Andrew Skurman Architects have been featured in numerous publications. Work by the firm is also included in San Francisco Style (Chronicle Books, 2004) by Diane Dorrans Saeks. CONTACT: Andrew Skurman Architects 3654 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone: 415.440.4480 www.skurman.com Images courtesy of Andrew Skurman, used here with express permission of the architect.
Image 9 of 23 from gallery of Princeton House / LEVENBETTS. Photograph by Naho Kubota
