Thomas Phifer   United States   The building was originally planned – seventy years ago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) – as a chapterhouse for the fraternity Pi Lambda Phi, in the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. While respecting the initial concept, the firm Tho

Thomas Phifer   United States   Carefully sited to take advantage of the prevailing summer breezes of New York’s Hudson Valley, the house – with a footprint measuring no more than 200 square meters –, is designed as a compact rectangular volume on a meadow with views to a small pri

Thomas Phifer   United States   Aspencertown site, in New York’s Columbia County, is the place chosen by a retired couple to build their holiday residence. The owners wanted to enjoy the sights of their impressive lot, a prairie of over five hectares in which the presence of trees