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Andrew Michler

Andrew Michler is a Certified Passive House Designer and principle of Hyperlocal Workshop. He is the designer of the first certified International Passive House in Colorado that has won numerous awards, including the 2018 Grand Overall Winner Green Home of the Year from Green Builder Magazine. He also won Architect’s Newspaper 2018 Best of Design Small Spaces Award for Sol Coffee, a mobile solar-powered espresso bar. He is the author of Hyperlocalization of Architecture and speaks regularly on environmental building design.
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Snøhetta's Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion was Inspired by the Robust Landscape

Norway is perhaps best known for its coastal fjords, but the northern landscape has much to offer in its interior...

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INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough

INHABITAT: What inspired you to write 'Cradle to Cradle' (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William...

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Colorado man builds state's most energy efficient house

Passive House is a globally-recognized building design technique that promises huge cuts in energy use for any...

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Elderly man spends 53 years building an incredible cathedral by hand

This extraordinary cathedral made from salvaged materials has steadily risen over the past 50 years in a quiet...

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INTERVIEW: Home Improvement Legend Bob Vila Talks to Us About Green Building

Bob Vila’s name has been synonymous with home improvement since he helped launch This Old House in 1979. After...

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7 Winter home improvement tips to save you money and energy in the cold season

Just because we've had record high temperatures in the past several years and general worrisome warming trend doesn't...

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Yunak Evleri is a 5-star hotel built into ancient Turkish caves

Many caves were carved out of the soft limestone cliffs in the region of Cappadocia, whose history dates back to...

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Enproyecto Arquitectura's Spanish Coastal Stone Cabin Holds More Than a Few Surprises

Located on the outskirts of a small agricultural village, the house is surrounded by cherry fields and is graced...

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BOOK REVIEW: Shigeru Ban's 'Humanitarian Architecture' focuses on emergency response design

The first half of book is comprised of four essays and conversations that Ban had with Bad Pit and fellow educator...

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Undulating Croatian sports center is an urban design masterpiece

The campus is sited on a slope, so access is provided by flights of stairs. Complementing the upper adjacent park...

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Oregon Man Lives Inside 727 Airplane Home in the Middle of the Woods!

Rather thanturning the plane into something like a modern house, Campbell is reusing much of the original equipment...

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Hand Over is raising funds to provide sustainable housing in Cairo's slums

An astonishing 47 percent of Egypt's slums are in Cairo, where 6 million inhabitants are living in a chronically...

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Towering Magic Mountain Lodge is a Hill-Like Hobbit Highrise Straight Out of Middle Earth

The Lodge sits on a diverse forest region in northernPatagonia and is a base camp at the Hulio Hulio preserve for...

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Carefully keeping the surrounding Ponderosa Pines safe, which provide critical shading in the summer, we dug out...

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Incredible Transforming LEGO Apartment Packs 4 Rooms Into 1

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