Recent Projects COMPUTER SIMULATIONS: THE HOOCH: Check out the new"Hooch,"just built by a great guy, Jo Scheer from Ashland, Oregon. It's his design for a relatively simple structure that meets the building code's "less than 120 square feet without a building permit" requirement. It has no foundatio...

Bamboo Thoughts I am an architect practicing in the western United States intrigued by the structural qualities of bamboos. It isa huge challenge to introduce bamboo into U.S. building practices. I have built a dozen or so structures in this country of bamboo, but there have been some amazing struct...

Bamboo Building and Culture TABLE OF CONTENTS Sim n V lez pages 1-7 Velez and Villegas 8-9 Bamboo Building 10-31 Hanover World Expo 32-35 Low Cost Housing Solution 36-40 Bamboo Renaissance in South America 41-44 About the author: Named by Metropolitan Home magazine in 2001 as one of the 100 most inf...

About Us We are architects searching for less expensive ways to build with natural materials. We build furniture and light fixtures, usually for houses we design. We teach workshops on building with natural materials, especially bamboo. Most recently, we have begun to build spec houses using thebest...

Furniture Though it seems like lots of interesting light fixtures, furniture and finishes are available on the market. Often, it takes a custom design to get just what we're after. This is when architecture is the most fun: working in the woodshop, making it come to life. One particularly enjoyable ...