Architect Richard Sammons Designs the New Period House (Episode 31)

Host Peter H. Miller, Hon AIA interviews Richard Sammons, of Fairfax and Sammons Architects. Listen in as Sammons explains how his classical design principals and use of sustainable materials inform and…

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Host Peter H. Miller, Hon AIA interviews Richard Sammons, of Fairfax and Sammons Architects. Listen in as Sammons explains how his classical design principals and use of sustainable materials inform and create new period houses and the "creative reconstructions" of buildings from the 18th and early 19th centuries."

Fairfax and Sammons Architects is one of the most important and accomplished classical design firms in the country. Richard Sammons and Anne Fairfax are founding partners in the firm and partners in life.

HOTEL BENNETT
NEW CONSTRUCTION IN CHARLESTON, SC

GEORGIAN STYLE HOUSE
NEW CONSTRUCTION IN WASHINGTON, CT

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Together their work has amassed design awards for all kinds of building types, from a stately villa in Virginia to a contextual hotel building in historic Charleston South Carolina to a tiny timber frame house in Newport Rhode Island.