Peter Miller

Winners of the 2021 Acanthus Awards were announced at a ceremony hosted by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Chicago-Midwest Chapter recently. There were nine awards given for excellence in classical design plus nine more recipients of the Chapter’s “Special Awards.”

Introducing the 2021 John Russell Pope Awards.

In the residential housing market, we have strong demand, weak supply, and chaotic work schedules due to the improvisations required by COVID-19 and supply chain disruption. How do you explain to a client that their new sofa cushions are on backorder due to the oil refinery hackers?

According to a recent WALL STREET JOURNAL article, the residential real-estate market is having its best year since 2016. It’s a housing boom “ignited by the pandemic.”

Virtual trade shows, conferences and online education are a new reality for old-time traditionalists in the traditional building practice. Most of us prefer the engagement and intimacy of in-person events but I haven’t been to one in over a year. Like the school kids attending virtual classes, our on-screen attention spans are getting short. Screen fatigue is a new occupational hazard.

The remodeling market now exceeds $400 B. Home prices are up too, a projected 5.7% increase this year.

AIA’s 2020 policy platform.

Built in 1656, the Mayhew-Hancock House on Martha’s Vineyard is a one room structure 15x14 feet with a dirt floor, a thatched roof and walls of waddle and daub.

Magazine subscriptions, newsstand sales, website traffic, online education attendance, e-cast open rates, social media engagement are all up as much as 100% year-over-year.

With no place to go but home, I've attended to several projects around the house and yard, which I'd not gotten around to. These projects include: reading back issues of our Home Group magazines; sorting through the junk mail; planting new trees and shrubs in my garden; power washing the back porch and cleaning out the attic.

“Wellness” is the design solution de jour. Not long ago, our “design matters” solutions were energy efficiency, community, sense of place and identity, resilience, safety, security, convenience, much of it aided and abetted by new technology. When we roll all these benefits together in the buildings we design, it makes us feel relevant. Design does matter and so do we.

The World Architecture Festival Building of the Year. And a brewpub.

The Haywood Street Fresco resides in a Central Methodist Church, a sturdy brick building downtown which looks west at the Blue Ridge Mountains.

"Materials and Methods: Windows & Exteriors," the third Traditional Building Conference of 2019 took place at Graylyn Estate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Disaster repair is a $27 billion dollar business. And it's making us all anxious.

Grange Hall is a place where memories have been made. It’s creaky floors, rough-hewn beams and wavy glass windows have enchanted farmers, fishermen, folk artists and friends for 150 years.

A summary of this year's AIA Conference in Las Vegas.

MESDA, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, resides on the edge of Old Salem, a historic Moravian village founded 1753, in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

New insight on the remodeling and repair market. Now $425 billion.

Design and Construction Week 2019 is the name for two trade shows combined: The Kitchen Bath Industry Show and The International Builder’s Show.

A look at the AIA Firm Survey report, which focuses on economic activity and looks inside the practice of architecture to reveal these interesting trends.

What are the hot new trends for the home market? Here are the answers from a variety of sources.