Our simple history

American architecture, a history of simple volumes.

For our residential stock, we need to guide ourselves to simpler volumes that can be finished and maintained in a more efficient manner. Simpler shapes allow for this, not bump-outs and gables every which way. This is our Yankee sensibility that propelled our country to be prosperous and humble, respected and emulated by the world. There are many ways to say it:

The simplicity of form from the past.
Functionality and size of the present.
Responsibility and conservation of the future.

Form, detail, and references of the past.
Use, size, and price of the present.
Responsible, green, and wise of the future.

Purity of form.
Utility of program.
Appropriate detail.

I speak and espouse a specific design for the southeastern Pennsylvania farmhouse, but each region of the country can support it's own vernacular version of smaller, responsible, economical residences.