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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Architect, Interior Designer and Developer
The Union
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The Titan
The Prospect
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Jonathan Segal FAIA redefines the role of the traditional architect by providing both architectural and interior design services as well as construction services for their clients. This exclusive opportunity helps provide a purity of design, eliminating conflicts and dramatically reducing construction time and costs. Jonathan’s office offers this service on a limited basis, trying to keep the design and construction work to two projects per year in order to keep a hands on personal approach to architecture.
Jonathan has designed, developed, and constructed National award winning and trend setting single family and medium- to high-density residential, live/work, and mixed-use housing in downtown San Diego and La Jolla, California since 1988. Collectively his work has won over twenty-two AIA awards with the last five projects have won National AIA Awards.
This passion for architecture and urban housing has not gone unnoticed. He has received numerous national, state, and local design awards, and several of those underscore that his standout talents have come at an early age: he has won the most National American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and State of California AIA Honor Awards for Urban Housing of any San Diego architect; he was named by the San Diego Union Tribune as one of “Four Architects” in the city’s history that have made a difference; in 2003, he was named to the AIA’s College of Fellows, FAIA – the youngest San Diego architect to be named to this prestigious fraternity; Jonathan was honored as Residential Architect Magazine’s 2004 National Rising Star; and this year, he received 2007 Residential Architect’s highest honor for The Union, a mixed-use development in Downtown San Diego, CA.
Jonathan has also been involved with numerous community and civic boards of directors, and his expertise has been essential to guiding the Centre City Development Corporation’s projects such as the Marina District, urban housing issues related to the new downtown ballpark, and condemnation for development of a new East Village in downtown San Diego.
Jonathan’s interests in thoughtful architecture and development extend beyond his own projects. He shares his ideas frequently as an AIA speaker and is often invited to speak at universities nationwide. He is also a distinguished visiting lecturer at all local architecture schools. Most recently, Jonathan has been included as a founding member of the National AIA Congress of Residential Architecture (CORA), and was appointed director of the Woodbury Institute of Architecture for the Masters in Architectural Development.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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