Profile:
Sander
Architects is
the international
award-winning
firm whose approach
to contemporary
residential design
has been making
waves in the architecture
world. Their Hybrid
House uses components
of prefab technology
to create homes
that are custom
designed for each
client. Homes
that are not only
green but also
very high design.
This is a time
of extraordinary
change for practitioners
in the design
fields and Sander
Architects is
a young exciting
firm determined
to be at the forefront
of green architecture.
Recognition:
Sander
Architects has
been awarded the
Dedalo
Minosse International
Award for Architecture
in 2002 and 2004,
along with Pritzker
Prize winners
Richard Meier
and Hans Hollein.
Numerous other
national awards
include AIA
awards
in 1996 and 2003,
Architecture Magazine's
Home of
the Year,
and Architectural
Record's House
of the Month.
Publications include
magazines such
as Dwell,
GA: Global
Architecture,
New York Times
and the Los
Angeles Times
as well as the
Los Angeles
Times Magazine.
Their work has
been widely published
in books such
as Another
100 of the World's
Best Houses,
noted architecture
critic Michael
Webb's Brave
New Houses,
Adventures
in Southern California
Living, and various titles by
author James Grayson Truelove. Recently the
firm was a semi-finalist
in the 2006 Living
Steel Competition
— which
highlights the
firm in their
"Featured
Architects"
section (visit
the site)
— as well
as semi-finalists
in the 2006 Global
Green Sustainable
Housing Competition,
sponsored by Brad
Pitt, to design
low-income housing
for post-Katrina
New Orleans.
Philosophy:
Sander
Architects seeks
to find a balance
between poetry
and pragmatics.
Starting with
essential elements:
environment, program,
site restrictions,
we encourage forms
to develop which
satisfy these
basic needs while
embracing the
possibility of
the poetic. In
this way, a house
for an Orthopedic
Surgeon becomes
a covert study
in anatomy: metaphorical
skin and bones.
The elements that
make up an aerobics
studio, its interior
architecture and
furniture, take
on physical tendencies:
tension, compresion,
torsion, sinew.
The entry for
a sculptor's house
is a 'vessel'
whose propotions
are based on a
large-scale clay
jar produced by
the owner. These
strategies are
covert, not obvious,
and allow the
built environment
to resonate thematically
with the program
and the people
who use it. It
is a strategy
of innuendo, not
declaration, a
struggle with
nuance, an attempt
at quiet fertility.
If the work celebrates
what it means
to inhabit, in
grander terms,
the work is a
celebration of
man's rhythms
and rituals.
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