We’re always pleased to be featured in local and national publications and other media. Here is an overview of some of that coverage. Click on images for available PDF versions.

This article “The bigger is better era in homes could be over” by Natalie Pollock appeared in Avon & Farmington Life in the fall of 2009. It give equal time to the experience of designing and building with Wolfworks as told by one of our clients, and includes a brief history of Wolfworks and a review of our interest in designing and building “not so big” homes that are “future friendly”. Take a look inside and outside this project.

This feature in CT Magazine by Erica Grivas with photography by Robert Benson appeared in 2006 following the publication of “Inside the Not So Big House”. Aptly titled “Surprises Inside” it highlights the delightful design and craft that were featured in the book by Sarah Susanka. As the tag line for the article describes, “From the outside, it looks like just another house on a suburban street. But open the front door for revelations in every room.”

Sarah Susanka’s “Not So Big Remodeling” came out in 2009 and features four Wolfworks projects in Greater Hartford and the Farmington Valley that reveal the principles and design “moves” that form the book’s content, a comprehensive and clear exposition of the careful design thinking that we practice every day. Not So Big Remodeling is organized to reveal design strategies for the functional spaces of a home, outside and in, and what can be accomplished across a spectrum of complexity and investment. It favors effective moves that do not require ambitious projects or large budgets.

Sarah Susanka changed the way people think about the spaces they create to live in with her series of books about “The Not So Big House”. A full chapter in 2006’s “Inside the Not So Big House” is devoted to a Wolfworks project in support of her guiding principles: that we need to value quality over quantity of space, imaginatively integrate function and style, make the best use of what we have before considering adding more, and above all, investing our attention in a thoughtful design process that assures we are pursuing the right project for the right reasons.

Quite to our surprise we discovered that a project of ours was featured in this design book titled “Outdoor Kitchens”. It’s a six page spread that gives deserved praise to a truly special space we created to serve a beautifully landscaped woodland garden and pond, set apart from the house and nestled in the woods in Glastonbury. It features Wolfworks knack for carefully detailed craft in a design conceived by Jamie Wolf and developed by Mark Couet. The doors that close off this outdoor kitchen cleverly fold out of the way and into the sidewalls. Click on the cover to see the spread.

In 1994 Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, published the first book to look at buildings over time: “How Buildings Learn”. I was following his project on the WELL, one of the first online communities, itself another Brand initiative. Through that connection I engaged him to present the project at our annual conference for energy efficient building professionals before it was published, and in the process ended up being interviewed and included in the book. “How Buildings Learn” remains one of the most important chronicles of the REAL life of buildings and was subsequently made into an enlightening BBC series. Find this book on our Useful Resources page under “Design Thinking”.