Foxworth Architecture

05/11/2025

Latest Planar House construction photos. Glass is being installed and the place is flooded with natural light.

10/24/2024

The Logan Street Market received an Award of Citation annual AIA Kentucky Design Excellence awards.
I am so honored and truly grateful to AIA Kentucky for recognizing the value and importance of our modest, community enhancing submission in the "Small Projects Under $2M" category.

Everyone contributed a tremendous effort to achieving so much with so few resources.
I am incredibly grateful to owners, Mike and Medora Safai for believing in the vision and dedicating so much to making The Market a reality.
Many thanks to the KPFF Louisville team for providing structural engineering services and to Benjamin Norton Photography.

06/21/2024

Please click on the link below to vote for our Logan Street Market project in the AIA People's Choice Awards. You can also cast additional votes for any of the other outstanding projects, but you don't have to (wink wink)!

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05/09/2024

The first tier of steel and ICF has been installed on the Planar House on the River. I've included updated 3D renderings that correspond to each of the construction photos. Can't wait for the next tier of steel roof structure to be installed.

11/22/2023

This Thanksgiving as well as all year round, I am truly grateful to all the visionary, dedicated, and brave clients, consultants, collaborators, and contractors that give it their all to make incredible projects like this incredible Jeffersonville house on the Ohio a reality. I am routinely humbled by your trust and expertise and it's a honor to work with you all.
In the photos, you can see the first of the ICF walls forming to define the front entrance, garage, and sunroom. So much more to come...

01/13/2023

Work in Progress. We're in very early stages of designing this new construction, 2500sf residence inspired by midcentury modern Eichler homes.
The house is conceived as a composition of massively thick stone walls that contain all the functioning casework throughout the house.
A courtyard is cut into the rear of the house to better utilize the small back yard. The courtyard is glazed on all sides and the exterior paving is continued inside to draw the terraced landscape into the heart of the home.
The roofs slope with the existing hill and new terraced gardens and pops up at the living area for daylighting and street presence.
More to come.

01/05/2023

Wonderful write-up in the WSJ about The Turret House.

The circular tower in Louisville, Ky., capped off an update that was long overdue.

12/30/2022

Figured it would be a great way to close out the year by posting the latest 3D images of this exciting, custom, 10,000sf residence. Now with building permit in hand we anticipate breaking ground in February 2023!

I am so incredibly grateful to clients, Sara and David, for their vision, trust, generosity, and patience. Also, none of this would be possible without the stellar team at Brown + Kubican

Cheers to amazing things to come in 2023!

08/20/2022

The Main House phase of the Field House is approaching completion. We're down to the final finishes and exterior metal work.
It's been an amazing journey though design options and developments as well construction and detail refinement. The overall project masterplan is being fulfilled after many years (the Field House design began in 2015). The overall complex/compound is an assembly of the modern, abstracted forms of the iconic "barn", "farm house", and "shed" infused throughout with elements of surprise and fun. Check out the last photo of the spiral slide installation (thanks Liz).
More to come.

08/08/2022

prompt: "Buildings in a field designed by Foxworth Architecture in the style of American folk art painting".

This series is tangentially related to the previous post. While working on my undergraduate thesis (in a future post) I became fascinated with American folk art paintings. There is something very pure, distilled, almost abstract about the buildings depicted in folk art. They seem to capture a certain essential quality without overthinking or overworking it. For my thesis I wanted to move away from the trend of geometrical and theoretical complexity (this was 2001!) and return to a more "innocent", elementary, pre-formal approach.

Agrarian structures and simple buildings in the rolling fields during countless drives across Ohio became my inspiration. Midjourney's artificial intelligence generator has allowed me to represent visions I've had all these years of folk art depictions of contemporary buildings; structures informed by these very same regional, culture, typological, formal and essential qualities.

Lastly, I think there's a fine line between being "meta" and maybe a bit narcissistic in this case. I asked Midjourney to produce these buildings as if designed specifically by 'Foxworth Architecture' as an experiment. However, It's almost disconcerting how well The Machine knows how I think...

08/02/2022

"Single-story American Ranch House with Playful Windows"

I'm currently working on several residential projects that are addition to or renovations of American ranch style houses and decided to see what Midjourney would produce with this prompt. I've been fascinated with the idea of lower 'a' (a)rchitecture vs capital 'A' (A)rchitecture for many years. So much of our built environment is considered background, banal, commonplace, unremarkable and certainly the Suburbs suffer much criticism. However, I'm fascinated by these buildings and the condition they establish. I like the idea of reimagining, agitating, interrogating, enhancing, reworking, reconceptualizing, and even celebrating this "background" (a)rchitecture. There is an incredible amount of richness and expression that can be extracted and re-envisioned without drastically departing from the context nor needing to tear it all down. It's working within a given, unescapable vocabulary that exists due to economics, tradition, context, exposure, and culture but finding ways to "re-see" these buildings.

For the ranch house projects I wanted a way to break out of my rigid thinking; something that could shift my design ideas away from my tendency towards Konrad Wachsmann and more towards Venturi/Brown. I wanted to explore unconstrained notions of massing, articulation, and fenestration. Midjourney did not disappoint.

I'm not exactly sure where the first series came from, maybe Charles Moore's Sea Ranch. Either way, I like it and love the implications of the outdoor spaces and decks and the casual/looseness of articulation. The second and third series start to really agitate what we think of as the typical suburban ranch house. The final image is the original first 4 iterations generated by Midjourney. Lastly I'd like to thank Clark Thenhaus for his research and thinking around these topics which has inspired and help focus me. Please check out his book, "Unresolved Legibility in Residential Types"