Chapter 6. Soul Search: Planning a Space Where You’ll Feel Utterly At Home
Chapter 6. Soul Search: Planning a Space Where You’ll Feel Utterly At Home To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but […]
Category Archives: Planning an Organic Home
To plan a home with Arthur Dyson is to engage in a soul search. Stories from my two homes and from interviews with Art and other clients
Chapter 5. Architherapy
Chapter 5. Architherapy: How Does Architecture Impact Our Lives and Well-Being? First we shape our buildings, then they shape us. -Winston Churchill I’ve thought a lot about the psychological […]
Chapter 1 draft At Home: A Client’s Argument for Reflexive Architecture
At Home: A Client’s Argument for Reflexive Architecture Preface by Arthur Dyson Dedication For my husbands, who help my dreams spring to life: Greg Alan Lapp Dennis […]
Two Arthur Dyson Houses–How These Things Start
Dennis and I were so fortunate: my grandmother owned the big ranch house on the north side of the property as well as the land on which we eventually built. […]
The River House—a Chronicle
The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Gaston Bachelard From the time we began the River House in […]
Planning the Lapp RiverHouse
Years later, Dennis had died, the kids had left for college, and I had met Greg Lapp, who agreed, without much coercion, to move into the space(s) I love. Greg […]
Planning the Lencioni Residence
Dennis and I were so fortunate: my grandmother owned the big ranch house on the north side of the property as well as the land on which we eventually built—which […]
Soul Search: Planning a House with Art
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. –Anatole France (on the white board in Dyson’s conference room) The […]
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