For this tranquil forest refuge, the architects worked from the inside out—configuring the house’s interiors according to views of nature, with the exterior form following suit.
Dubbed CODE, the new building and its plaza enliven Charlottesville, Virginia’s historic pedestrian mall with an eye toward the community—and the future.
British-born Freear joined the design-build program at Auburn University in 2000, and has made scalable, low-cost housing solutions for impoverished rural communities a primary focus.
As citizens and officials remove statues across the country, RECORD speaks with architectural historians and preservationists about the role of such artifacts.
"We need an understanding of how architecture is very much complicit in injustice," says Mabel Wilson, one of the Memorial's designers. See new images from the demonstration in this updated story.