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November 2019

Happy Thanksgiving from in situ studio! We sincerely appreciate continued opportunities to work on unique, challenging, and meaningful projects. A huge thank you to our clients who trust us with this work and our many collaborators who help make the projects real!

  

Divisare

Two of our projects – the Corbett Residence and the Yamato Philbeck Residence – have been included in our favorite online catalogue of architecture – Divisare! Here’s why we love the site, in their own words: “Divisare is the result of an effort of selection and classification of contemporary architecture conducted for over twenty years. Patient work, done with care, image after image, project after project, to offer you the ideal tool with which to organize your knowledge of contemporary architecture. Instead of a quick, distracted web, we want a slow, attentive one. Instead of hastily perused information, we prefer knowledge calmly absorbed.” We’d recommend subscribing here. Photography credits to Richard Leo Johnson and Keith Isaacs.
 

  

AIA Charlotte

The Merkel Cooper Residence was recognized with an AIA Charlotte Housing Merit Award earlier this month! The house is located on a steep slope above Lake Norman near Troutman. Executed to the finest detail by Kelly Custom Builders, the house is simple in form and uses a spare material palette. Zach and Matt had a fun, rainy trip to attend the awards event at the Bechtler Museum, accept the award, and catch up over beers afterwards with Marc Manack of SILO and the UNCC School of Acrhitecture. Thanks, AIA Charlotte, for another great event!

 

ArchDaily

We’ve had two projects featured on ArchDaily this month – the Kimball Residence and Yamato Philbeck Residence! Both of these project were designed on highly constrained sites near downtown Raleigh and built by Aiello Builders. We appreciate the years of support afforded us by ArchDaily, who first featured our work in 2012. Photography credits to Keith Isaacs.

 

The Taylor Property

Work continues on the 24-acre Taylor property in Chapel Hill. For the past two-and-a-half years, we’ve been working with out-of-state clients to plan improvements to this historic modernist site that was the childhood home of James Taylor. Part of the project is the refurbishment of a Matsumoto and Latimer designed main house. Since completing a design collaboration with Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect, we’ve been working with Build Sense to navigate the Town of Chapel Hill permitting gauntlet and get the project underway. Demolition is complete, and new work has begun on the main house, a guest house, and pool. We can’t wait to see this one take shape in the coming months!

 

Book of the Month

The book of the month is Projects 2009 – 2017: Valerio Olgiati – a monograph about one of Switzerland’s most renowned architects. Olgiati, son of Swiss Modernist Rudolf Olgiati, has created a body of work that can, at first blush, seem pure, oversimplified, and set in the world without care for context. Looking deeper, however, one can sense a conductor at work, orchestrating the spatial sequences of a powerful architecture. Pure forms begin to erode, shift, change, and disappear. Perceived simplicity is enriched by a play between solid and void, light and dark, and inside and outside. Entirely surprising atmospheres are created. Please take some time to study the work of Valerio Olgiati! We’d recommend starting with Villa AlemAtelier Bardill, or House in Laax.

 

We hope you enjoy the last couple days of the Thanksgiving holiday. We’ll be back at it early Monday morning!

Best.

in situ studio

919 397 3949
www.insitustudio.us

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October 2019

Happy Halloween from in situ studio!  It’s been an exciting month, including an office run in the Day of the Dead 5K where in situan Vince got 10th place overall! Way to go Calabro!

 

Website Updates

We’ve updated our works page with three new projects – the Kimball Residence, the Stimmel Residence, and the Yamato Philbeck Residence. New photos by Keith Isaacs really capture the spaces well. Thanks to our amazing clients for the chance to work on these unique houses and to John Sanders and Bob Aiello for their work building the projects!

 

Friday Morning Serial

The next Friday Morning Serial, featuring Maggie Kane, is scheduled for 10 22 19, at 8:00am, in our office! For those of you who don’t already know, Maggie is the founder of A Place at the Table, the first pay-what-you-can cafe in downtown Raleigh. Maggie has a heart to serve, a desire to always be inclusive, and a passion for loving people. Through her work with people on the streets, she realized the power of community, the importance of dignity, and the beauty in bringing people together over incredible food. Come out to hear her tell her story, and as always enjoy a bowl of cereal and a cup of coffee on us! RSVP.

 

Readings on Race

On November 21st, Readings on Race will meet at 101 S Wilmington St. at 7:00pm to discuss The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. In exposing the statistics and practices behind mass incarceration, police brutality, and racial profiling, this powerful book reveals the transformed and rebranded institutional racism behind the Jim Crow laws of the 19th and early 20th century that persists to this day. So & So Books has offered the book at a 20% discount for the event. Call ahead and reserve your copy today!

AIA NC Awards

The 2019 AIA North Carolina Design Awards were presented in Wilmington this year. Our entire office took the day off, drove to the coast, ate at Flaming Amy’s Bowl, squeezed in a few frames of bowling, played glow-in-the-dark putt putt, attended the awards reception, grabbed a burger at PT’s Grille, and made it back in time for a good night’s sleep. We were honored to receive a Residential Merit Award for the Kimball Residence. And, in the biggest news of the night, Erin was awarded the William H. Deitrick Service Medal. Congrats to all the winners!

 

Walter Magazine

We were honored to have the Trull Residence grace the cover of Walter in last month’s Home & Garden issue! The story, written by Michael Welton, focuses on our collaboration with our very thoughtful clients. And, Keith Isaacs’ photos are wonderful in print. Thanks to Walter for featuring our work!

 

Book of the Month

For the November Book of the Month we’ve selected The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf. Humboldt has more plantsanimals, and places named after him than any other person, but is often forgotten to history. This book chronicles the life of the Prussian polymath, author, and explorer who developed a holistic idea of nature, linking various scientific fields and making substantial contributions to physical geography and meteorology. His work influenced many scientists and naturalists including Charles Darwin and John Muir.

Best.

in situ studio

919 397 3949
www.insitustudio.us