Vermont Architect – Robert Swinburne

Dan Gregory, the editor at Houseplans.com had a good blog that I pay attention to. on August 6th he put in a ditty about my Vermont Simple House 1 on sale now. There is also a way cool toilet that has a small sink at the top of the tank to that when you wash-your-hands-evey-time-you-go-to-the-bathroom ( I sound like a parent – wait a minute, I am!) the water goes directly into the flush tank.

There is also a bit about Marmoleum which is a linoleum flooring product. My mother was told recently by several flooring stores including Lowe’s in Maine that linoleum doesn’t exist anymore. (in other words they didn’t carry it). She is also complaining that her new $100 toilet doesn’t flush very well. Duh! I didn’t even know they made toilets that cheap. Is it plastic? Gross generalization alert: Mainers like cheap stuff and rarely pay for quality.
I’m off for two weeks of visiting family and riding my bike on the Cabot Trail!

I have a new website designed by Good Bear Productions here at the Cotton Mill in Brattleboro, VT
Check it out! It is very beautiful.
I have learned that I take good photographs but that way too many of my projects are as of yet un-photographed.

Green Building Advisor, a website where I spend a lot of my online time learning, well, lots of trade related stuff just ran an article featuring a project for which I did schematic design and brainstorming on a few years ago. The article makes no mention of me of course – the architect on these projects often gets forgotten after the ball gets rolling especially when he doesn’t do a lot of drawings. The builder is Dwight Homes, Energy Consultant, Doug Snyder of DS Greenbuild LLC and Integrated Solar Applications of Brattleboro was the mechanical contractor

Tinyhouseblog.com, A fun blog with a rather large following just ran a bunch of photos of my Fern House. It is terribly fun to read the comments.

The Contest is now over and the top 12 have been chosen to move into the next round. My entry was chosen as an “honorable mention” which I am pleased with. Thank you to all who voted and thank you for all the comments. The comments are especially useful as I plan on putting together a stock plan portfolio in the future including this house or one similar. (the design needs some tweaking)

VOTE !!

Last week I got a call from a reporter at the Keene Sentinel newspaper. Apparently I was on a list of interesting people to interview for their “Monadnoc Profiles” section.
Keene Sentinel article
It is a really good article. My mother will love it.

Update: the link no longer works!

The first and most recent issue of the Roger Williams University alumni mag did a profile on me.

I have been very busy lately with lots of work so I have been remiss in my blog duties.

Here is a very cool letter I got from Vermont senator Bernie Sanders in regards to the Providence competition

Hey all you sleek expensive modernist architects with square toed shiny shoes and funny little glasses! Check this out. I designed this very cool steel stair out of stock pieces of steel – two C-channels and a bunch of 1 1/2″ steel angle. Lots of nuts and bolts. Add some stainless steel cable with turnbuckles and there you go! Very Erector Set. No Welding. When it is completed there will be a wooden handrail bolted on and the 2 x 12’s that were bolted in place during constructin get replaced with solid planks of cherry from a tree felled on site. I love the rich patina of raw steel.

see also Stair Porn for a larger photo

Katie Hutchinson Studio – House Enthusiast

The Brattleboro Reformer ran an article on the Perry Road Project today “LEED-ing the Way” For those who have been keeping tabs on this project, we will be holding several open house tours during and after construction.  Stay tuned here for dates and more information.  Also my college friend Mark LePage put an entry relating to me in his new blog Entrepaneur Architect It has been interesting to watch Mark’s firm as it grows and his internet activities expand. Very inspiring, Now I am trying to inspire other classmates from architecture school to follow suit.

David Powell was featured in the April 2008 Trade magazine “Builder/Architect” Vermont Edition. the article features a number of projects we worked on together as well as an article on page 9 written by me which is a better developed version of a previous entry on this blog.

Yes, it’s official as of this morning although some of you have known since Friday. Read more »