Contemporary Architecture Practice, United States of America
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Key Projects, alphabetical:
Arado WeeHouse, Lake Pepin, Wisconsin, USA
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WeeHouse
Cawaja WeeHouse, USA
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Marfa WeeHouse, Texas, USA
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Phillips Garden WeeHouse, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2007
Urban WeeHouse, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Urban WeeHouse
Young WeeHouse, Florence, Montana, USA
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Practice Information:
Studio based in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Twin Cities-based design-build architecture firm Alchemy LLC was formed in 1993 under the direction of principal Geoffrey Warner. Their mission is to make stimulating, engaging, and efficient design accessible and affordable for a wide audience. They use modular designs that are flexible and factoryfriendly to produce studio, one- to-multi-bedroom dwellings as well as multi-unit developments that are elegant housing solutions using efficient, industrial, yet live-in friendly elements including container or corncrib siding and eco-friendly Andersen windows.
A distinctive hands-on approach to architecture and design combines a playful design process, collaborative client relationships, and partnerships with builders and fabricators, to create a harmonious blend of site, building, and community. With sustainable practices as a mainstay of their daily work, Alchemy utilizes recycling and reuse along with building strategies that reduce waste. The multidisciplinary team draws inspiration from art, literature, history, and leading creative thinkers to create alternative and atypical project solutions. Alchemy’s innovation on the weeHouse prefab system and “tightwad panache” renovations has gained recognition on an international scale.
ABOUT GEOFFREY WARNER, AIA
With extensive hands-on experience constructing buildings, furnishings, lighting, and fabrications in a wide range of materials using hand, machine, and CAD-based processes, Warner’s work concentrates on art and industry while maximizing modest budgets through creative construction technologies. Renovations and the celebration of the reused, mundane coupled with cutting edge materials is a central theme in his work.
Geoffrey Warner is a registered architect living in St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife and two daughters. He holds an architecture degree with high honors from the University of Minnesota (1987), and taught Design- Build classes there in 1998-1999. He received the Dinkeloo Traveling Fellow Award coupled with a stay at the American Academy in Rome (1989), where he studied the detailing work of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa.
His work has been published in many books, magazines, museums and newspapers throughout the United States as well as internationally.
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