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Welcome to California Landscapes Awareness Website. Edward I. Mills + Associates. Paul Raff Studio - Private Residences. Cascade House Garden Pavilion The Natai Bluepoint Sales Pavilion Treetop Villas Private Residential Multi-Unit Development Commercial Cultural Masterplanning Special Projects Baby Point Renovation Bancroft Cottage Constance Street House Culu Culu Polo Villas Cumberland Residence Glencairn House Renovation Le Jeune Studio Longwood Addition Olive Avenue Addition Rotary House Addition Sherwood Park Heritage Addition Stack House Paul Raff Studio Incorporated Architect 703 Bloor Street West | Toronto M6G 1L5 Canada. Paul Raff Studio - Latitude. Location: Cherepovets, Russia Status: Concept Project By: RVTR (Paul Raff, Kathy Velikov, Geoff Thun, Colin Ripley) Latitude is a series of modular houses designed as an award-winning competition entry in "The Living Steel International Competition for Sustainable Housing. " With a system of prefabricated highly-engineered lightweight steel modular units, the design performs quadruple duty: as an energy-efficient building envelope, as an integrated structural system, as a room-defining element, and as a chassis for building services.

Visual Art Source. Roy Dowell Profile by George Melrod Untitled (#982), 2009Acrylic and collage on illustration board16" x 20"Photo: Brian ForrestCourtesy of Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Roy Dowell’s vibrant painted collages deftly juggle scraps of color, form, and design then fuse it together like a riff of optic jazz. Encountering one of them, one finds oneself tracing a tacit map of modernist art history, from Kurt Schwitters and early Cubism, through the jaunty mid-century Americana of Stuart Davis and the skewed Pop billboards of Rosenquist.

Yet there is nothing glib or ironic about Dowell’s gleanings; sifting through a sprawling array of references with a canny eye for detail, he splices them together to create his own elegant, eclectic, deeply intuitive synthesis. “A lot of the work starts with a reproduction of something: a little snippet of somebody else’s work, or a decorative element off a piece of textile or ceramics.

Raised in Northern California, Dowell attended high school in L.A. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Victoria Blau Architect. NEWS | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE. HMC Architects. HKS, Inc. Wilson Associates - Interior Architectual Design. PORTFOLIO.