Category Archives: Not So Big Showhouses

The Libertyville Not So Big Showhouse: Transformer Spaces

25 Jul by Sarah Susanka

  I would like to introduce you to the Libertyville Showhouse, which was built in 2011 in a northern suburb of Chicago.  This brief introduction will give you a taste of what it’s all about. Designed for a family with two kids, this particular house is intended to completely model …

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Where It All Began

22 May by Sarah Susanka

  In the mid-1990s, when I’d been working as a residential architect for more than a decade, I had an epiphany one day while driving though the suburbs of Des Moines, Iowa. I had started noticing that new houses were getting extremely large, and decidedly unattractive. For miles and miles, …

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