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Article: Rising star / Randy Brown architects: the Nebraska native aims to redirect the midwest mainstream.(2003 leadership awards)(Biography)
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- Residential Architect
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- June 1, 2003
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in retrospect, it's not hard to see why architect Randy Brown, AIA, chose a 1970s Montessori school as his first studio-cum-living quarters. The 40-by-40-foot passive-solar structure, with its tall, south-facing windows and concrete floors, was the perfect canvas on which to experiment with movable sunshades, tilted planes, exposed joists and studs, and salvaged light fixtures. Over a period of two years in the mid-1990s, he and his wife, Kim, camped out there. They plotted a collage of flexible live/work spaces, which they built themselves.
Three years ago, the firm and the family outgrew the old school. But its design set a course for the work Brown is known ...