OSA
PROJECTS AND AWARDS
Practice: Office for Sustainable Architecture



Hawaiian Native Plants LLC, Eco Living Community, Kauai, Hawaii, 1992
Tomatoe, pepper, and flower garden; Katy and Alison in the modular cabin; pole tree house



Pole tree house construction; Channing and Robert; pole tree house from across the canyon
OFFICE FOR SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
PROJECTS AND AWARDS
Selected realised projects:
1978-1981 Mission Beach Precise
Planning Group, San Diego, California
Elected representative
1981 McLean Residence, La Ribera,
Baja California Sur, Mexico.
600 sqm tropical thatch dome la ribera
1983 Leslie Residence, Wrightwood,
California. Passive solar,
earth-sheltered house *
1984-1991 Board of Directors,
Installation Gallery,
a non-profit visual arts space *
1984-1991 Advisory Board,
San Diego County
Board of Supervisors
1987 "60 Watt Dollie", sculpture,
"Furnitura", group show, Vorpal Gallery,
San Francisco, California Æ
1988 Topanga State Beach, California.
Analysis and policy plan to preserve an area
of the beach by inclusion of a low-impact
site plan into the Los Angeles County Plan *
1989 Putnam Residence, Hollister Ranch,
California. High technology earth-sheltered,
passive solar concrete house, putnam residence
Since 1989 Hawaiian Native Plants LLC,
native plant propagation, ecological
revegetation design and landscaping in California
and Hawaii and New Zealand. GIS
ecological inventory *
1991 Mimran Guest House,
Montecito, California
Since 1993 Sustainable Houses, Kauai, Hawaii.
Designed and built two energy-efficient,
low-cost houses, integrated with the landscape, sustainable community
1993 Sustainable Plan and Development
Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii,
A "Growth by Chunking" experiment *
1995 Earhart Residence, Kauai, Hawaii.
Sketch ecological revegetation design,
planning and landscaping
1998 "Wave Festival", land art installation,
Piha Beach, Auckland, New Zealand,
for Lopdell House Art at the Beach, 100 x 50m
1999 Jones Residence, Newmarket, Auckland
garden design jones landscape
2000 CRECA (Center de Recherches d'Esthetique
du Cinema et des Arts Audiovisuals)
Conference, Universite de Paris 1,
Sorbonne, December 2000, Paris.
Collaborated in urban force field
mapping by Knowbotic Research.
Austrian Exhibition at
Biennale di Venezia
2000 Hotten, Robert, and Dr. Peter Diprose.
"3XL Garden City", in La Biennale
di Venezia 2000, 7th International
Architecture Exhibition Competition
of Ideas: Citta: Third Millenium.
Venezia: Marsilio. pp. 182-185, garden city
2002 Sunset Makai Hale, Kauai, Hawaii
Modification of landscape to maximise near ocean views,
Current projects:
2004 Grinpas Residnece, Kauai, Hawaii
Interpretation of Japanese country style japanese timber frame
2005 Steuck Residences, Monterey, California
Site Plan, Grading Plan, Landscape Plan,
And conceptual design of 2 houses, 2 guest-houses,
and 2 employee houses for site plan and design review steuck residence
2005 Cummings Residence, Gaviota, California
Site Plan and conceptual design of ranch and
employee house cummings residence
2006 Pozgay Residence, Kilauea, Hawaii
Site Plan with "Mondrian" landscape and pond
entrance screen for private entrance. pozgay landscape
2006 Lawaiuka Road Residence, Lawai, Hawaii
Site Plan and design of a sustainable community lawaiukaroadproject.html
International awards and successes in competitions including:
1969 Finalist, Trondheim, Norway
New Town competition
1988 The land art project "Fault Strike Light",
$5,000 Design Development Award
in San Diego, California
1988 Hamel's Action Sports Center,
Mission Beach, California.
Renovation which after subsequent upgrade
won an "Onion Award"
1998 Two "Awards of Merit" for
California Energy Commission,
"Leading Edge 98", student competition
1999 Invitation to join collaborative cyberspace project,
10_Lavoro Immateriale, La Biennale di Venezia,
1999, Austrian Booth
1999 La Biennale di Venezia 2000, Selected Architect
entry in Third Millenium City: "3XL Garden City" garden city
2000 "Road Trip 2030", student work selected for
competition International Festival for Architecture
in Video, November 2000, Firenze
Virtual Tour Gallery, Biennale di Venezia 2000
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