Before the pandemic, architect Frank Barkow (living in Germany, teaching on the East Coast, and with roots in Montana) was stuck in what he terms the “airplane-every-week rat race.” So when he bought five acres of his brother’s farm outside Bozeman for a house of his design, it was with the idea of spending longer, less frenetic stretches there, with more elbow room than in his Berlin office. By completion of construction, however, the world had changed.
Conceived as a live/work retreat for his family (wife Regine Leibinger, his partner in the firm Barkow Leibinger, and their two sons), the house now outperforms itself, accommodating Barkow’s teaching, both off-site (Zoom for Princeton and Cornell) and on (Montana State University architecture students co-opting areas of the property for design-build explorations). In the past year, the place has necessarily evolved, he says, “from a leisure outpost to something more active and ambitious—from fly fishing to base camp.”
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