Forbes List: America's Top Residential Architects
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With their flat roofs, walls of glass and barely-there framework, the projects designed by Scott Edwards Architecture often feel more like pavilions than houses. Founded in 1998 and boasting a staff of 85, the Portland firm fashions homes that are strongly horizontal, with windows that extend from floor to ceiling and wrap around corners, inviting nature in at every turn (a bonus in a place where it rains so much). Like many SEA creations, their Featured Project was divided into several volumes, each assigned a different function, and features broad, sheltering eaves that protect exterior living spaces from excess sun and (more commonly) precipitation. The limited palette of wood, steel, stone and glass helps anchor the building to its setting, allowing it to dissolve into the landscape like the wispy tendrils of a fog bank.
