Cellophane House is featured on the award-winning original documentary series from the Sundance Channel, Big Ideas for a Small Planet, Episode 5, airing Tuesday evenings this fall. The series focuses on environmental topics with interviews with forward-thinking designers and features on green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. Visit the series website for show times, or go to iTunes to download the full episode.

Interview by Sarah Wesseler, published on ArchDaily, 18 August, 2009

What do research and development mean in today’s design field? To learn more about architectural R&D, I turned to KieranTimberlake, a Philadelphia-based firm that has earned wide acclaim for its innovative work in arenas such as prefabrication and sustainable design. Partner Stephen Kieran and research director Billie Faircloth spoke with me about the history and practice of the firm’s in-house research team. Continue reading>>

Yale School of Art Gallery and Sidwell Friends Middle School
photos © Peter Aaron/Esto (left) and © Halkin Photography LLC (right)

It was announced last month that the Yale University School of Art Gallery and Sidwell Friends Middle School have received 2008 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards, presented by The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and The Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau.

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by Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 1/23/2009

Looking for a prefabricated home for an infill location that's moderately priced, factory-built and sustainable? Then look no further than Builder LivingHome, a collaboration between Kieran Timberlake, the American Institute of Architects's 2008 Firm of the Year, and developer LivingHomes. Continue reading...

KieranTimberlake has teamed up with LivingHomes, Profile Structures, and Color Design Art to create a modular show home for Builder magazine. The home will be on display at the 2009 International Builders' Show in Las Vegas, January 20-23. You can take a virtual tour of the project on the Builder website.

Boyce Thompson, Builder magazine's editorial director, writes:

Next week, four semi-trailers will leave a factory in Southern California carrying the modules and panels that make up our show home for this year's International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. The convoy will idle across the street in a parking lot, waiting for the convention floor to open for exhibitors. Then, when the doors roll up at 12:01 a.m. on the morning of the 14th, crews will race the components to the floor and begin a mad, five-day race to ready the home for visitors.

If you are going to the IBS this year, check out the Builder LivingHome. We've been working for more than a year on this super-sustainable "mod" home. The experience of navigating the nascent modular industry to line up a builder, an architect, a factory, and suppliers is an interesting story in itself. But it is sure to be eclipsed by the home itself, which speaks volumes about the trends that are likely to preoccupy builders for the next several decades. Continue reading...