Peter H. Miller, Hon. AIA, is President and Publisher of Active Interest Media’s Traditional Building, Period-Homes.com, Old House Journal and New Old House magazines and producer of the Traditional Building Conference Series. Read his full bio here.
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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.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2018 conference message: community, activism, energy conservation and "fostering a creative, fair, sustainable, entrepreneurial economy.”
The 2018 Design Leadership Summit for architects, interior designers, custom builders and suppliers to the design trade was held in October in Washington D.C.
New house affordability is still a challenge for first time buyers which bodes well for the sale of existing homes.
Clifford W. Zink's book about the Princeton Eating Clubs tells the story of these Gilded-Age mansions and their architects.
Keep Craft Alive celebrates those who have chosen to passionately pursue a career in design, building and remodeling.
Looking at architectural ornament soothes our senses and lifts our spirits.
The Historic Tax Credit provides a 20% Federal tax credit to property owners for rehabilitating historic buildings for business.
Lessons learned from Construction Week at the International Builder's Show in Orlando, Florida, January 9-11, 2018.
When it comes to the current and future housing market, demand is outpacing supply. This is good news for the old house market.
NAHB economist Robert Dietz' presentation at the NAHB Building Systems Housing Summit paints an optimistic picture of the housing industry forecast for 2017.
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