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Quality of design has been at the forefront in our development of Challenger homes—it’s a key aspect of our “raising the bar” and “challenging the status quo.” In the process, we have spent several years seeking out and collaborating with visionary, award-winning architects who share a vision for innovative, sustainable, sensibly-sized, and highly livable homes. We’re proud of the partnerships formed with these leading professionals and the excellence they have contributed.
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L to R: Paul Stankey, Marc Asmus, Bryan Meyer
A founding partner of HIVE, Paul Stankey has extensive hands-on experience in design-build stemming from work in Minneapolis and Bozeman, Montana as a designer, craftsman, and teacher. While an Intern Architect at Yunker/Asmus Architecture in Minneapolis he collaborated on the Windsong Farms Golf Club which received a 2005 AIA Minnesota Honor Award; while working with Alchemy Architects in St. Paul he helped devleop the weeHouse. Several of his projects have been published in Dwell, Metropolitan Home, Wallpaper, and Ink. Paul is continually exploring the inherent aesthetics of natural and manufactured materials and objects.
Marc Asmus is a registered architect living in St. Paul, Minnesota. After practicing as a founding partner of Yunker/Asmus Architecture Inc. since 1992, Marc established Marc Asmus Architects, Inc. in 2004 and later that year joined Paul Stankey and Bryan Meyer as one of the founders of HIVE. Marc’s passion is fine residential architecture. His thoughtful focus and attention to fine detail and has earned numerous awards and his work has been published in Metropolitan Home, Renovation Style, Progressive Architecture, Midwest Home and Design, and Architecture Minnesota.
A graduate architect from the University of Minnesota, Bryan worked with SALA and Yunker/Asmus Architecture before joining m.a ARCHITECTURE and co-founding HIVE in 2004. Experienced in high quality residential design, Bryan’s professional interests lie in exploring a transitional contemporary influence within traditional domestic architecture. His award-winning work in Minnesota and Wisconsin has appeared in Architecture Minnesota, Renovation Style, Midwest Home and Garden as well as Twin Cities newspapers and the book Cabin by Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis. In his free time, Bryan and his architect-wife Anne Ryan investigate design ideas through the construction of small buildings at their cabin in northern Minnesota.
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Herb is the former Head and a Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, as well as Director of the Experimental New Media Centre. He is also an award-winning architect, designer, curator, and writer whose practice and research interests include architectural design and theory, architectural detail, landscape architecture, and international development and exchange. Herb is a Contributing Editor to Canadian Architect and has served on the Editorial Board of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. His architectural work and writings have appeared in the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) journal Update, and Dwell, among others. He has participated in numerous competitions, exhibitions, and national design award juries and was the inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Architecture and Design, The University of Texas at Austin.
Herb has worked closely with Conquest since 2007 in the design and development of a unique, future-proof, and scalable system of modular housing.
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Ross Chapin has long been an advocate of sensibly-sized houses and vibrant neighborhoods. His innovative housing and neighborhood prototypes have received significant national media coverage and professional peer review, and have established a new high standard in the housing industry.
Chapin’s firm near Seattle, Washington, is focused on modest custom residences and pocket neighborhood developments in the Northwest Region and across North America.
His projects have won numerous design awards, including the 2005, 2007 and 2009 American Institute of Architects Housing Awards, and have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fine Homebuilding, Metropolitan Home, This Old House, Builder, and more than 25 books, including Solving Sprawl (NRDC), Sarah Susanka’s Not So Big House series, Home by Design, Patterns of Home, The Good Green Home, The New Cottage Home, and Blueprint Small, among others.
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A native Winnipeger, Ed Calnitsky holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Manitoba. Prior to forming his own award-winning architectural and interior design firm in 1986, he gained international experience working with architectural firms in London, U.K. and Caracas, Venezuela, as well as teaching design in London, Ontario.
Calnitsky Associates Architects has been involved in a wide range of institutional, commercial, and residential projects throughout Canada, the United States, and overseas. Ed is closely involved in all aspects of architectural and interior design services and brings a strong creative and design presence to each project—years of experience in managing projects and balancing design, budget, and schedules with client objectives have contributed to numerous successful projects.
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Ray Kappe, FAIA, is renowned for his residential architecture which has been characterized as “the apotheosis of the California House.” His designs evince a mastery of warm, modern spaces, clearly expressed construction systems, and environmental sensitivity. During his first ten years of practice, he completed fifty custom post-and-beam houses. Exploring modular systems, prefabrication, passive energy and active solar systems, Kappe has completed commercial, low-cost housing, condominium, hotel and college buildings. He has also been involved in urban design and planning, as well as social and community advocacy and education.
In 1972, after three-and-a-half successful years as professor and Founding Chairman of the Department of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, Kappe resigned. With a group of faculty members and students, he started the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). The SCI-Arc model of education encourages learning through creative discourse and supports diversity of opinion within the framework of a common vision. Today the school is 34 years old, with 3,000 graduates working and teaching all over the world. It is considered one of the top architecture schools in the USA.
Kappe has received many awards including the Richard Neutra International Medal for Design Excellence, the California Council/AIA Bernard Maybeck Award for Design, and the Topaz Medal, the highest award in architectural education. His own residence was designated a Cultural Heritage Monument by the City of Los Angeles in 1996. Stephen Kanner, President of the A + D (Architecture + Design) Museum in Los Angeles wrote, “Ray’s own home may be the greatest house in all of Southern California.” Ray continues to design from his strengths, even as his work incorporates new technology.
The Challenger line of homes incorporates designs by Ray Kappe for LivingHomes.
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KieranTimberlake Associates is an award-winning and internationally recognized architecture firm noted for its research, innovation and inventive design. Founded in Philadelphia in 1984 by Stephen Kieran, FAIA, and James Timberlake, FAIA, the firm is comprised of fifty-four professionals. Their work has been described as beautifully crafted, thoughtfully made designs which are holistically integrated to site, program and people.
KieranTimberlake has practiced sustainability since its inception, long before green design became mainstream. The principles of sustainable design are a key component of their core beliefs. This is an approach that seeks balance for the ideals of resource conservation, energy efficiency and pollution prevention with the realities of performance criteria, constructability and budget. The firm is a nationally recognized innovator in sustainable design with dozens of initiatives to their credit. The firm is experienced with the LEED certification process, as over 95% of their architectural staff, including the two partners, are LEED Accredited Professionals.
To further its understanding of architecture and develop new ways to see, design and make products, KieranTimberlake has committed substantial resources to ongoing research, development and innovation. The firm developed SmartWrap™: The Building Envelope of the Future, a mass customizable, high-performance building facade, that was initially exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. At the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, the firm designed and installed a ventilated curtain wall, the first of its type in the United States. KieranTimberlake is one of five firms commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to display an offsite fabricated home in the Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition in July 2008.
The firm has received over eighty design awards, including the 2008 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects. Their work has been published in Architect, Architectural Record, Interior Design, I.D. Magazine, Metropolis, TIME, Wired, and The New York Times.
The Challenger line of homes incorporates designs by KieranTimberlake for LivingHomes.
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