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<\/a>\nDC architect Phil Esocoff also does a nice job with attractive facade design.<\/p>\n There are far more stinkers, however. \u00a0For design, I prefer smaller buildings. \u00a0Like small gardens or landscapes, there is usually room for only one organizing principle and its elegant elaboration. \u00a0The rowhouse is a good urban example of this and the DC area has a wealth of fetching specimens in Alexandria, Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and of course Capitol Hill. \u00a0Another local architect, Amy Weinstein, has done beautiful work in southeast DC on the\u00a0Ellen Wilson Homes\u00a0(and on a HOPE VI affordable housing budget!).<\/p>\n This is all to deliver to you a link I received this morning for a street of contemporary rowhouse facade design on Lonnekerspoorlaan in Roombeek, Enschede, in the Netherlands. \u00a0The detail below is from a larger streetscape<\/a>. \u00a0This looks a bit like a facade project we did one semester in school, where we each made cereal-box scale models and placed then next to each other. \u00a0Lots of ideas here. \u00a0Dig away.<\/p>\n Facade-ism. \u00a0Facade-omy. \u00a0Building facades are harder to design than they look. \u00a0Especially with bigger buildings. \u00a0Look around you.<\/p>\n There are always of course excellent examples. \u00a0The National Gallery of Art, West Wing, designed by the fabulous John Russel Pope, is a beautiful building.<\/p>\n DC architect Phil Esocoff also does a nice job with attractive facade design.<\/p>\n There are far more stinkers, however. \u00a0For design, I prefer smaller buildings. \u00a0Like small gardens or landscapes, there is usually room for only one organizing principle and its elegant elaboration. \u00a0The rowhouse is a good urban example of this and the DC area has a wealth of fetching specimens in Alexandria, Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and of course Capitol Hill. \u00a0Another local architect, Amy … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"