The leafy neighborhoods along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.’s privileged inner-ring suburbs offer an ideal combination of urbanity and livability. Yet their downside is the tight lots, closely spaced houses, and busy roads. Mark McInturff, FAIA, sought to preserve privacy when he designed a house for a married couple along the waterway that divides […]
Residential Design magazine invites you to enter your best residential work in our national RD Architecture Awards competition (RDAA). The RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential design. This is a different kind of awards competition that covers the breadth and scope of work by talented residential architects and designers. We recognize that contemporary […]
Although the term “housewraps” is not brand new, there is still a fair amount of misunderstanding surrounding the word. “Up until recently, you had building paper or nothing behind the cladding until housewraps and synthetic materials were introduced, but a wrap or a weather barrier was not required until about 2006 at least in residential […]
