• Cottage

    East Hampton, New York

    This National AIA Award winning cottage blending modernist and traditional ideas was recently updated from summer to year-round use. Reversing the conventional front/back relationship to the street, informal spaces face the entry street while the high formal facade with its wrap-around porch faces the great lawn at the back. Fenced car courts, on two corners of the lot, replace the usual driveway and keep all vehicles out of view from the lawn. A central stair hall passes through the house connecting the front and back lawns; while four bedrooms are tucked under the high Dutch gambrel roof on the second floor.

    Client: Private
    Size: 5,000 gross square feet
    Completion: 1986 (original) & 2006 (update)
    Awards: 1991 National AIA Honor Award; 1989 Builder's Choice Grand Award
    print version