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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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Keeping an Eye on the Bigger Picture
Adams Fleming House - Outdoor Living Space
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Adams Fleming House - Kitchen
Croft Street Loft
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Levitt Goodman Architects Ltd. is an award-winning architecture firm that has been providing a wide range of architectural services since our formation in 1989.
Our designs celebrate the many ways to live and work.
The challenges unique to each project are an opportunity to innovate, to be inspired and to demonstrate how good design improves people's lives. We have extensive experience in talking to diverse client groups about their needs and a history of making architecture a rewarding and fulfilling experience.
Collaboration is fundamental to our process.
We feel it is essential to generate ideas and work through problems together - in our studio, with our engineers, contractors and, most importantly, with our clients. So it is a priority for us to establish and maintain good communication with everyone involved. Accountability, maintaining budgets and attention to detail are ensured by the continuous hands-on involvement of the principals for the duration of any project.
We never lose sight of the context.
We know that buildings are part of a bigger picture - socially, environmentally and culturally - and aim to make each design progressive, sensitive and relevant. We like to use energy and cost-efficient materials in inventive ways for results that are both design oriented and sustainable. Regardless of the size or type of project, our approach is always technically, aesthetically and economically well informed.
Principals:
Dean Goodman, B.Arch., OAA, MRAIC, Janna Levitt, B.A., B.Arch., OAA, and Brock James, BES, B.Arch., OAA
Janna and Dean are the co-founders of Levitt Goodman Architects. After 10 years with the company Brock joined Janna and Dean in partnership in 2005. All are members of the Ontario Association of Architects and their work has been published both nationally and internationally. The three principles lecture, teach and sit on national juries regularly.
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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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