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Architecture in Practice
Colored sketch rendering of a modern house embedded into a hill. Shows the road in front of the house, the driveway and garage, the front entryway, and multiple balconies on the front facade.
This blog is part two of the latest in our “Architecture in Practice” Series. If you didn’t catch the first part of this post, start here. Why houses cost so much in Los Angeles We were SO excited to officially own the lot, and somehow, we came up with a design approach almost immediately. (Fun...
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Colored sketch rendering of a modern house embedded into a hill. Shows the road in front of the house, the driveway and garage, the front entryway, and multiple balconies on the front facade.
First comes ownership, then comes design. I know what you’re all thinking. What ever happened to that spec house you guys were doing? Well, package a really strange pandemic that keeps going on and on and on with a very busy practice and next thing you know, the spec house got moved to the back...
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Graphic depicting the various quantities of the hillside house construction. The horizontal and vertical dimensions of the hill, the setback of the hill, and the removal of a tree, are all marked with a red check mark. However, the placement of the house on the hill is marked with a red question mark.
I know what you’re thinking…enough with all this general information on architecture and development. Now that you’re all on the edges of your seats in anticipation, we’re finally ready to show off our new development project. As we pondered the best way to share about our process, Tracy suggested, “Why don’t we expose the ‘making...
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About three years ago, our team started looking for properties to develop in-house. If you haven’t noticed, there isn’t a ton of vacant land in Los Angeles. Finding something affordable with decent building opportunities is even harder. To evaluate each lot that came up in our land search, we had a mental checklist to see...
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Welcome to the start of our “Architecture in Practice” journey. If you missed our introduction piece, check it out here: Architecture in Practice. As we mentioned previously, early in her career, Tracy had the opportunity to act as both architect and developer (with her family) for three small spec houses in Santa Maria. This seems...
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Cartoon showing a car driving by a mountain with its trunk open. Multiple colored geometrical shapes are falling out of the open trunk.
We’re putting our Architecture Practice to work. Architects love designing. Seeing their imagined project upon completion is exciting. But there’s that in-between part that some feel they might be missing out on. So…Tracy A. Stone Architect has decided to jump in…and develop our own project. We are about to join our favorite readers, clients and...
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