M. Gerwing Architects

10/28/2021

https://mgerwingarch.com/m-gerwing/2021/10/28/limits-of-the-physical

When I walk through a building, more often than not, I see what we can not easily change, not the opportunities of what the entire building can generate. But with a walk through and a plan drawing , I can see through the walls and floors, see past the odd alignments of years of additions, and look

07/23/2021

https://mgerwingarch.com/m-gerwing/2021/7/23/july-2021-project-updates

It has been a very busy summer and we are blessed with a number of really interesting projects, for great clients, on beautiful sites. We have a small number of projects in construction, quite a few in the early design stages, and of course a bunch sitting in various review stages at the City and Co

05/16/2021

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There is a chance to create a new chapter in the story of an architectural… Sara Soka needs your support for Purchase and Preserve Miller House, Lexington, KY

09/15/2020

https://www.dwell.com/article/quirky-shipping-container-home-gerwing-gelband-loveman-boulder-real-estate-bc125f82

The Boulder, Colorado homeowners clad the house in reclaimed wood and filled the interior with a colorful collection of curiosities.

05/18/2020

https://mgerwingarch.com/m-gerwing/2020/5/8/making-a-house-in-the-landscape

Many of my projects are located on rural, steeply sloped sites around Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. There are a number of challenges that come with these sites - steep, rocky landscapes with often huge winter snowfalls and intense, high-altitute solar gain. These are harsh conditions, but my cli

01/31/2020

https://mgerwingarch.com/m-gerwing/2019/11/7/boulder-countys-site-plan-review-process

The Hidden Trials of Boulder County’s Site Plan Review In the past 20 years, we have had a number of Site Plan Review submissions to the Boulder County Land Use Department. And while the codified standards for approval have changed little over this time, the interpretation of those same standards

06/25/2019

Hancock Shaker Village woodshop. All that Shaker furniture, all those Shaker-style cabinets and doors, this is source, the origin story. Those tools, this room, all those simple, ascetic works spring from this modest space.

05/07/2019

Marcy Cameron and I are giving a talk this Saturday on Boulder Modernism:

On Saturday, May 11th, I will be giving a talk with Marcy Cameron on the flowering of Boulder’s architectural heritage in the late 1950’s and 60’s. Marcy and I have given a longer version of this talk at the CPI conference a couple of years ago and we have updated and condensed it for this eve...

03/20/2019

Chapels of the San Luis Valley,

Chapels of the San Luis Valley For many years, I have been taking trips to the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. This area feels very different from either the Front Range or the Western Slope and is marked by tiny settlements and the vase expanse of the wide valley. Of particular interest to

03/06/2019

Mid-century modern legacy - A Frames

I am working on a remodel and addition to an odd A-frame hybrid house at the base of Sunshine Canyon, just west of Boulder.  The original house, built in 1964, was designed by architect Richard Brown.  Brown designed a number of these modified A-frame houses, mostly around Boulder,

02/25/2019

https://mgerwingarch.com/m-gerwing/2012/03/23/an-architects-education-figure-drawing-67bmc

02/22/2019

"the wickedest street"...

Each year Colorado Preservation Inc identifies a number of interesting and threatened buildings across the state. This year, prominent on the list, was a collective entry - the older advertising signs along Denver's Colfax Avenue.