Speaking of Books with Andrew Linn: Home on Earth: Recipes for Healthy Housing

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In Home on Earth: Recipes for Healthy Housing Andrew Linn provides a loose framework for BLDUS’s unique farm-to-shelter architecture. Using traditional materials processed with contemporary techniques, BLDUS designs and builds sustainable houses in and around Washington D.C. that pay tribute to their contexts and gain integrity as they age. Home on Earth showcases built houses alongside material studies and models to propose a healthy building cuisine specific to the Mid-Atlantic Region. These contextual houses are advocates for simple healthy building materials that work well in the Mid-Atlantic region and have low impacts on their points of growth, manufacture, installation, inhabitation, and eventual disposal.

Andrew Linn is a principal and founder of BLDUS, a DC-based architecture and development practice that operates throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, making architecture that connects past with future, modernity with tradition, and humanity with nature. Prior to teaching at Virginia Tech, Andrew taught at the University of Maryland and the Catholic University of America and studied at Cornell University (BArch) and Yale University (MA in the History of Science and Medicine), and worked for Arquitectonica, Fantastic Norway, OMA, and Tigerman McCurry. He has been honored with a 2023 AR Vanguard Award and a 2019 Young Architect Award from The Architect's Newspaper.