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My 17 yo topped out this 6’ tall structural stone wall he’s been building today. He and his brother and sister gathered the rock from the surrounding countryside. Doesn’t get more local than that. Proud papa moment.
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Brickーpossibly the most versatile, and simultaneously under-realized, material in the world.
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The work of journeyman Austin Tunnell who apprentices with us for two years before embarking on his own as an independent, structural masonry, design builder.
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The Apprentice House.
It’s still difficult, even for me to take in, that four young men, who came to us with no masonry experience, built this.
Let building incite wonder and celebrate possibilityーthen call it Architecture.
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I built this arch today. Needed to get the trowel back in my hand.
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We are builders. This is a building we are currently building. We have tools. We know how to use them. This is what happens when we use our tools. We build things to last a very long time. For something to last a long time it has to be structurally resilient..
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This was the little brick shed/studio/garden chapel, I built in my yard back in Atl, that ignited the Hope for Architecture concept. We’ve been in hot pursuit of permanence for more than a decade now. And it all started with a pile of random brick and not a single page of plans.
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Apprentices raising their timber frame after four days of on site joinery.
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A few of our masonry envelopes. Note that these are already architecture. The goal is to create a vernacular fabric that lives many lives. At any point these bldgs can be reduced back to this distillate state with no loss of identity or cultural significance to their region.
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Dusk at the Dollins House.
ーCarlton Landing, Oklahoma
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So I built this staircase the other day. Had to completely rethink how to execute the primary stringers to avoid bisecting that Romanesque archway.
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Changing elevation and vernacular fountains at nearly every turn. Walking thru this place at night makes me feel like a Roman 2000 years ago. Las Catalinas, founded 2006.
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Roundabout portal built some years ago back in rural Georgia, USA. A lot of heavy lifting can be done by strategically placed, monument-like features of the public realm.
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Fireplace I built some years ago. No shapes. Everything was carved on site.
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Current project underway. Back elevation.
ー Krebs, Oklahoma
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The Urban Guild went on a field trip to the American College of Building Arts (ACBA) yesterday in Charleston, SC.
I was simply blown away.
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So I use to build horse stables. I started in college during Summer break bldg hay barns and run-in sheds. This was profitable enough to get me thru school. I was a fine arts major back in the day, but finished with a teaching certificate in art, K-12.
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Current progress at the Prichard project in Krebs, Oklahoma.
Prewar, triple wythe, common bond, structural, load bearing, clay brick, mass wall masonry.
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Our first project in Carlton Landing back in 2014, looking as good now as the day it was finished.
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Mud cabinets coming along. Good to camp out on these ‘daily living’ projects. Building on-site and head scratching at 100% scale leaves a particular mark. In no way opposed to manufactured elements, but prefer it not dominate the spirit of the house.
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The was our Hope for Architecture field test back in 2012:
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The work of Patrick Lemmon and Wesley Stiner, two journeymen who apprenticed with us for a number of years, and are now out on their own as independent, structural masonry, design/builders.
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Drove out to the Monastery yesterday morning to have a look at the chapel we built a few years ago. Spent some time with the monks and had an especially nice visit with 94 yo Methodious who came to this Trappist community in 1949 and helped build the Abbey.
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I’ve worked a lot of years with this man. Over and over he’s told me how much he loves my country, and now he’s legal. Look at his face. What joy!
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When short cuts become the measure, the piling on of more and more short cuts becomes the fashion. Tricks to extract more while providing less become canonized. Eventually, the avoidance of going strait at a thing becomes the longer, less defined and more costly ーpath.
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This is my house just after the mass masonry phase was completed. Note that it’s already architecture.. with only two materialsーbrick and mortar. One of eight cottages in The Borough pocket neighborhood; a micro village in the DPZ town of Carlton Landing, Oklahoma.
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The Apprentice Project 2021 Carlton Landing, Oklahoma
The building and the know-how continuing to grow; good progress all round.
Note the beveled window openings: This technique allows more light to enter the house, and provides greater visibility looking out;
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Secret garden. This one is mine. I do not build for others what I cannot build for myself. I do not teach ideology, but the execution of realistic goals. I do not get lost in idea land, but seek a strait forward solution that is both evidence based and evidence generating.
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I don’t understand why there isn’t more amazement about the mere 66 years between Kitty Hawk and the lunar landing.
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Taking kids to school this and am came across this hour or so old mishap. No matter what I see dead on road, there’s always a bit of shame to push thru. But sometimes it makes sense to do more than just acknowledge it. I like to think there’s some honor in this. 10 min later..
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Most greenery here is volunteer. A redbud sprouted by the front steps & owns the entry now; a blizzard killed our gardenias, but elms filled the vacancy; wild ivy, cloaks the n gable & is fire red in Fall. I love it when a house says, ‘we can take this as far as you want to go.’
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Austin came to us in his late 20’s as a certified CPA with no construction experience. He has now established precedence for our mass wall model in Oklahoma City.
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Sent my kids out to gather ‘wall worthy’ stone after school yesterday. 45 min later I got this pic of a 2500 lb pallet ready to go.
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Another fun image from the Pierce Lee House where the curvilinear potential of clay brick masonry was so liberally expressed. May do a series of posts on this early aughts project. This was the first house I’d ever built, and the pics bring back a lot of hard won, fond memories.
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Hope for Architecture is a structural masonry revival fusing the best of the old with the best of the new to create an authentic, cost effective built environment that will last multiple centuries, and is profitable to build.
This is new construction:
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Secret garden or chicken coop? Thinking of warm, dewy spring mornings this 5° sunrise.
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Oak beams and iron work accompanying
45° structural arches at Pierce Lee House in Rome, Georgia. I’ve always thought of brick as an incredibly expressive sculpting medium that is remarkably under-realized by the building industry and veneer jockeys of our day.
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Another post of ‘six month apprentice’ Rob Fox (
@TheTimelessTown
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We built this 8 cottage microvillage, it’s common green (with shared fire pit) and parking on a third of an acre. Triple wythe, solid brick walls will deliver these living bldgs deep into an uncertain future.
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Living quarters built above the horse stalls at the Strickland Stable back in 1999. This was also my first timber frameーoak at that. The joinery took 5 months to complete, and was raised in a day with 50+ volunteers.
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It is not necessary for a carpenter to know much about masonry; but to be a proper mason, fluency with wood is absolutely requisite.
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If you move every five to seven years, that means you don’t live anywhere.
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Meet the new class of Hope for Architecture apprentices as they dip their toes in a bit of timber framing. After this orientation project, these guys will begin a mass wall house and take it to completion. Great things are about to happen! Stay tuned..
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Noble materials are always beautiful. Even in the midst of decay. As time peals it back, what do we find? The reality of that which is real, a path physical people share with physical buildings. Both can age gracefully if their lives are not lived and defined by deception.
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Still looking for a mundane view here. Will keep you posted. Las Catalinas
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Yesterday we removed the centering for the widest spanning arch I’ve ever builtー17.’
#skye
#krebsoklahoma
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When we pull back the curtain, or the gown falls to the floor.. what stands there? What suddenly speaks a language only moments before we didn’t know, and didn’t know we could know?
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Texture. Timeless. Unapologetic. Real.
Hope for Architecture is a structural masonry revival integrating the best of the old with the best of the new to create a lasting, inheritable built environment that is both profitable to build and affordable to own.
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So it was seeing ‘time’ on steroids that led me to bldg solid brick, euro style stables and I have a horse to thank for
turning me into an old world mason.
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Create an architecture that dares you not to love it. Make it strong and durable; a friend to time that needs few favors.
This is a structural masonry revival fusing the best of the old w/ the best of the new to determine a profoundly lasting & meaningful built environment.
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Daulton House, completed 2011. Great to stop by for a glass of wine with these folks during our short Atl stay. The house is living well, and I can think of no better compliment than to be received so warmly by clients who’ve called this place home now for almost 10 years now.
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Japanese design is wonderfully subtle and nuanced. Weaving the restraint of such a simple sensibility can be profoundly effective. This is one of our current projects in Carlton Landing, Oklahoma. The brick massing here is a nominal 13.” The stone walls are 20.”
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Before a brick can be made for a wall, it must be made for a hand.
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Was reminded of a past project while at a restaurant last night in Manassas.
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Current progress at the Apprentice Project in Carlton Landing, Oklahoma. Third story coming up!
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15 days progress at Skye.
#prewar
#triplewythe
#commonbond
#structural
#loadbearing
#claybrick
#masswall
#masonry
First, we must make things that last.
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Somewhere between our grandchildren and their’s, almost everything is going to have to be rebuilt. And when this time comes, the world will be a much more complicated place, with many more ppl and substantially fewer resources.
This is why I build the way I do.
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This is the basement ceiling of a friend’s house in Usèz, France. The subterranean rooms were created during the quarrying of limestone used to build the house above. There are many of these remarkable spaces, utterly forgotten by time, all over (or under) Europe.
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Architecture can be a lens thru which we see our world more clearly.
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I’m just gonna say it. Being politically homeless is a moral obligation at this point.
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First fires are the best, even when it’s 70° during your inaugural lighting!
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Shouldn’t the process of building be beautiful as well?
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Undesign it. Let the substance of what you do carry the day.
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Something like this maybe? Carter HouseーCarlton Landing, Oklahoma
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