Dwell magazine profiles the South Minneapolis home that local architect Julie Snow designed for Walker Art Center design curator Andrew Blauvelt and his partner, Scott Winter, who directs the Walker's annual fund:
"The deeply collaborative design process that ensued felt more like an architect-to-architect dialogue than an architect-to-client discussion. Snow shared sketches with Blauvelt and he drew designs to send back. Later, the trio would meet, handling chunks of concrete, wood, metal, glass, and other inspirational materials, to get a real sense of their tactility and material relationship. 'Andrew is not trained in architecture, but he knows more about design than many architects,' Snow says. 'His library of design and architecture books is the most extensive of anyone I know. He's compositional--he thinks in composed elements.'
"One game that the couple rejects, however, is the one where a seemingly agoraphobic modernist, flat-roofed home on a large lot carefully camouflages itself behind trees and a large lawn. Rather, the house is exposed to everyone, in a neighborhood largely featuring early 20th-century homes and apartments. 'It is a response to a corner lot at a busy intersection,' says Snow. And although it is unique to the neighborhood, 'it fits the city and the pattern of the neighborhood's older housing stock--front yard, porch, house, yard, and garage--but with an updated design sense,' she says."
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