Indigenous Designs is a philosophy of building design that at first seems very new, and yet it is very very old. The integration of Native American and early American archetypes are expressed through modern building methods and materials creating an indigenous architecture for our future.
Another very important aspect of Indigenous Designs is the fusion of ethnic heritages and personal family histories into the design montage. This personalization might be reflected through the homeowner's heritage, favorite wood, tree or flower. Through applications in stained glass, window shutters, tile, rockwork, plaster relief and woodworking, a family crest or motif can be established and then carried out in the finished work, sometimes completed by the homeowners themselves. The result is an integrated structure and design that blends into its site the details that express the homeowner's individual character.
This work continues a tradition started by Frank Lloyd Wright and other "organic" architects who searched for designs appropriate to their location and native tradition, yet strived to be modern and thus respond to contemporary technology. Common to both is an effort to simply produce beautiful buildings, designs creative in their forms, designs truly American.

Early on, Native Americans developed and refined many building forms and construction methods that we can learn from today. The Anasazi of the southwest created houses that through their design stayed warm in the winter and yet cool in their hot desert summers. At the ancient Indian sites of Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito, the ruins reveal houses ingeniously laid out to maximize their solar energy gain by following the cycles and angles of the sun. Many other Indian dwellings as well as early American houses, with the addition of glass, would be excellent prototypes today for energy efficient designs. Indigenous Designs studies these early archetypes through computer modeling and searches for the most efficient solution appropriate to its location.

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