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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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A Focus on Client Involvement
Team at McInturff Architects
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Chevy Chase Renovation
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McInturff Architects
McInturff Architects, a seven-person firm based in Bethesda,
Maryland, has an orientation toward the design of small highly-
crafted contemporary projects for residential, commerical and small
institutional clients. Their complete architectural and interior
design services involve considerable client interaction and
involvement in order to tailor buildings to the needs and wishes of
the users. The work has been frequently published, both locally and
nationally, and the firm has received more than 250 design awards,
including three national AIA Honor Awards, two for Interior
Architecture and one for Urban Design. The work is the subject of
two monographs, In Detail: McInturff Architects (2001) and In
Residence: McInturff Architects (2007), both by The Images Publishing
Group of Australia.
Mark McInturff
Mark McInturff FAIA is a native of Washington DC and received his B.
Architecture from the University of Maryland School of Architecture
with its first graduating class in 1972. He has taught at the
University of Maryland since 1980, since 1987 as an annual visiting
critic with a focus on design competitions, and was appointed as the
University of Maryland Kea Professor for Spring 2003. He has also
been a visiting critic at the Catholic University of America’s School
of Architecture and Planning since 1995. McInturff was elevated to
the College of Fellows of the AIA in 2000.
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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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