Great Small Houses

OregonLive.com, Dec/2009
Small Houses Go Big-Time
New York Times, July/2007
“Click Your Way to an
Architect-Designed House”
GoodFit stock houseplans
Creating the Not So Big House
by Sarah Susanka
Gable House
Taunton Press
www.NotSoBigHouse.com 
Cottage
by M. Caren Connolly
and Louis Wasserman
Saratoga Cottage
The Spruce House
Taunton Press
The Distinctive Home
by Jeremiah Eck
Dine’s Point House
Taunton Press
The Cabin
by Dale Mulfinger
An Artist’s Cabin
Taunton Press
The New Cottage Home
by Jim Tolpin
Three Gable House
“A Forest Home on the Trail”
Taunton Press
The House You Build
by Duo Dickinson
Morgan Hill House
Taunton Press
More Small Houses
Gable House, Green Tower House,
and Bicycle House
United Press Syndicate
Patterns of Home
Aldermarsh House
Taunton Press
The Town Paper online magazine
“Living Less Large”, Jan/2007
This Old House magazine
A Better Breed of Stock Plan”
Oct/2004
Three Gable House
Fine Homebuilding magazine,
Houses Issue, No. 94
Gable House and Bicycle House,
“Simple, But not Plain”, Spring/1995″
Duplex with a Rooftop Garden”, issue 106
“Comfort and Delight on a Low Mortgage”, issue 116
Sunset magazine, May/1991
Aldermarsh House
Simple Living Guide
by Janet Luhrs
Broadway Books

Interior Design Ideas

Kidspace by Wendy Jordon
Taunton Press
Built In Furniture by Jim Tolpin
Towerhouse
Taunton Press
   

Budget Realities

Fine Homebuilding magazine, Issue 94
“Keys to Meeting a Budget”
by Ross Chapin
   

Television

Lehrer News Hour
Danielson Grove is featured in a story on
“low impact development”
HGTV (#611), 2001National Ass. of Homebuilders
HGTV (#406), 1999The 21st Century Home television
HGTV, 1999AIA/Sunset Honor Awards, 1-hour special

Pocket Neighborhoods

USA Today
“Cozy Neighborhoods Have
Sprawl on the Move”, March/2011
New Urban Network
“Good Developments Come in
Small Packages”, April/2011
EcoHabitar magazine
“Vecindarios Compactos”,
Summer/2011
Modern Green Homes
Sanctuary magazine
“Pocket Neighbourhoods”, July/2011
Residential Architect magazine,
“Off The Beaten Path, Dec/2009
“Change Agent “, Jan/2006
Cottage Living magazine
“The Good Life/Pride of Place”, Apr/2008
Third Street Cottages and Umatilla Hill
“Sharing Common Ground”, Oct/2003
Greenwood Avenue Cottages
The Wall Street Journal, July/2008
The Newest Cottage Industry
Forbes.com, Oct/2008
America’s Luxury Homes, Downsized
Seattle Times
“Clustered in Kirkland” , Apr/2007
Danielson Grove”Housing in the NW”, June/2002
Greenwood Ave Cottages
“Rooms with a Point of View”, Oct/1999
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
“Cottage Homes Design”, Feb/2010
Forum magazine
“The Return of the Compact
Home & Neighborhood” , Winter/2008
Conover Commons
Puget Sound Business Journal,
Oct/2006
Not So Big
Danielson Grove
Northwest Home+Garden magazine,
now called Seattle magazine
“Cottage King”, Nov/2006
Builder magazine
“Cottage Industry”, Nov/2008, Spring Valley
“Projects We Like: Wyer’s End”, Dec/2008
Tight Squeeze“, Nov/2006, Danielson Grove, Conover Commons
Just Right“, Dec/2006, Third Street Cottages
Pocket Change”, Sept/05, Conover Commons
Jan/2003, Greenwood Avenue Cottages
  Housing for Niche Markets
edited by Jo Allen Gause
“Greenwood Ave Cottages”
Urban Land Institute
  Home Outside
by Julie Moir Messervy
Danielson Grove
Taunton Press
  Home by Design
by Sarah Susanka
Greenwood Avenue Cottages
Taunton Press
  Sunset magazine
“Cottage Neighborhood”, Mar/2006
“Lessons in Land Use”, Oct/1999
“Living Large in a Cottage”, Apr/1999
  Blueprint Small
by Michelle Kodis
Greenwood Avenue Cottages
Gibbs Smith, publisher
  Celebrating the American Home
by Joanne Kellar Bouknight
“50 Great Houses from 50 American Architects”
Third Street Cottages
Taunton Press
   The Town Paper online magazine
“Ross Chapin: Recreating a Strong Sense of Community”, Nov/2008
  Creating the Not So Big House
by Sarah Susanka
Third Street Cottages
Taunton Press
  WorldChanging.com, Aug and Oct/2008
“Smaller Homes, Bigger Communities”
“Seattle to the World: Compact Homes”
  Arts & Crafts Homes magazine, Winter/08
“Back In Style: Bungalow Courts”
Third Street Cottages, Conover Commons, Danielson Grove
  Metropolis magazine, Apr/2008
“Pocket Pads”
Umatilla Hill
  Portland Spaces, Jan/2008
“Pocket Village
Salish Pond Cottages
  Solving Sprawl
by F. Kaid Benfield, Jutka Terris, Nancy Vorsanger
“Third Street Cottages”
Natural Resources Defense Council
  The Oregonian, Jan/2008
“Cottage Craft”
Salish Pond Cottages
  HGTV Front Door, Mar/2008
“Little Houses, Big Ideas”
Third Street Cottages
 

Christain Science Monitor, April/2007
“Incredible Shrinking Houses”,

  Seattle magazine, Mar/2007
“The Green Guide”
Conover Commons
  ReadyMade magazine, Oct/2006
“Village People”
Third Street Cottages
Planning magazine, May/2002
Greenwood Avenue Cottages
  National Resources Defense Council, 2001
“Solving Sprawl, Models for Smart Growth in
Communities Across America”
  Fine Homebuilding magazine,
Houses Issue, No. 94
Third Street Cottages
  The Everett Herald, Nov/2001
“Cottage Industry”
  Metropolitan Home magazine, Mar/2000
“Cottage Industry”
  Knight Ridder News Service, July/ 1999
“Thinking Small, Living Large”

Awards

2010 Sunset/AIA Western Home Awards Ross Chapin Architects received an honorable mention in the Urban Living Space category for Wyers End

2009 AIA Seattle FutureShack celebrates progressive solutions for urban living. Danielson Grove was selected as one of eleven residential housing projects highlighting innovative, cost-effective and sustainable solutions to increase both urban density and the quality of our lives

2009 Pacific Coast Builders Gold Nugget Awards
Conover Commons—Two Grand Awards, Sustainable Residential Neighborhood and Neighborhood Site Plan

2009 American Institute of Architects
Housing Committee Award

Conover Commons–’One/Two Family Production Housing’

2009 Built Green Washington Award
Conover Commons—category winner, ‘Community Development’

2009 Builders Choice Merit Award
Conover Commons—’Single Family Detached Community’

2008 Pacific Coast Builders Gold Nugget Award
Danielson Grove—Grand Award
‘Best Neighborhood Site Plan up to 20 Acres’

2007 American Institute of Architects
Housing Committee Award
Danielson Grove—’One/Two Family Production Housing’

2007 Residential Architect Design Award
Danielson Grove—’Single Family Detached Housing’

2006 Ebey’s Landing Historical Reserve 5-Star Award
Keystone Prairie House—“as “an excellent example of how new design, using materials and forms found historically in the Reserve, can be sensitively integrated into a community without creating a false history.”

2005-06 AIA/Sunset Magazine Western Home Award
Conover Commons—’Cottage Neighborhood’

2005 American Institute of Architects
Housing Committee Award
Greenwood Avenue Cottages—’Single-Family Market’

2005 AIA NW+Pacific Region
Greenwood Avenue Cottages—’Knowledge by Design Case Study Prize

2003 Northwest AIA Citation Award and Glen Hunt Award
Dungeness House—“Citation Award for an “example of design worthy of study”; the Glen Hunt Award recognizes “seamless integration between Architecture and Landscape”

2001 AIA/Sunset Magazine Western Home Award
Backyard Neighborhood

1999 AIA/Sunset Magazine Western Home Award
Third Street Cottages

1984 Winner of the A New American House competition
Sponsored by The Minneapolis College of Art and Design with the support of The National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program

1978 Minnesota Energy Agency Competition
Award for the design of an affordable, energy-efficient house in a northern climate