The Huffington Post
June 23, 2010
Lee Schneider
Michelle Kaufmann: An Architect Driving Change
article HERE
Google Sketchup: Michelle Kaufmann Case Study
Below is a Google Sketchup Case Study video featuring Michelle Kaufmann.
Residential Architect
April 21, 2010
Meghan Drueding
“Update: Michelle Kaufmann Studio” article at Residential Architect magazine (check our their new website, full of great info).
Article is HERE
treehugger interview: michelle kaufmann imagines a future of green building
My first post as a guest writer for one of my all-time favorite green websites Treehugger. They are interviewing a bunch of cool peeps for Earth Day.
Here you can read my thoughts:
TreeHugger: What are the major advances have you seen (in your field) during the past 40 years? What, if any, were the major failures?
Michelle [...]
GOOD magazine
Michelle Kaufmann is included in this month’s GOOD magazine (just hit the news stands) in an article on sustainable communities.
www.good.is
The New York Times
April 8, 2010
An article about Michelle Kaufmann’s work was written in the New York Times by writer Tracey Taylor.
Planet Green’s: World’s Greenest Homes
A home designed by Michelle Kaufmann (with MKD and Glen Haney Landscape Design) was included on World’s Greenest Homes show on Planet Green. Check HERE for episode schedules.
Oprah and the Smart Home
The Smart Home: Green + Wired at the Museum of Science and Industry on Oprah. Chicago’s Greenest Home.
www.oprah.com
USA Today on the Smart Home
USA Today’s Wendy Koch writes on Museums that showcase green building homes as exhibits, featuring our Smart Home: Green + Wired at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
Link to article
Smart Home – visit by Apartment Therapy
Apartment Therapy (love them!) recently visited the Smart Home: Green + Wired at the Museum of Science and Industry that we designed a few years ago. The home recently re-opened with all new sustainable materials and systems and furnishings. Here is a link to photos of their visit and product information: www.apartmenttherapy.com
and a post on [...]
Interview with Mind Body Green
I did an interview with Mind Body Green today. Even though Barbara Walters was not involved, it became a bit more personal than most I do.
Below is the interview. Click HERE for the original post.
MindBodyGreen: How do you start your morning? Do you have a routine?
Michelle Kaufmann: My typical morning begins with being woken up [...]
Earth2tech
Michelle Kaufmann has been called the high priestess of green “prefab” design. The architect, who worked for Frank Gehry early in her career, was one of the first to make a persuasive case that prefabricated design — which saves time and reduces waste compared with conventional home building, among other benefits — could be green [...]
sundance channel show “Big Ideas, Small Planet”
Michelle Kaufmann designed this home while with Michelle Kaufmann Designs.
A lifestyle of choice, not compromise
Michelle Kaufmann’s design aesthetic embraces both the intrinsic beauty of forms and their complements in a natural materials palette. Her walls “are sculpted in the light”, her surfaces constructed of durable and renewable materials. Not only are Michelle’s homes livable, they are worthy of study, as her full-scale home built inside the Museum and Science [...]
How green building can save the housing industry
By John F. Wasik
Green is gold. Why didn’t homebuilders get this idea? They could be building new homes again, employing millions, making inner cities and suburbs habitable and bring down the cost of housing for everyone.
READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE >>
K+BB Profile
When clients come to you for a green home, what, above all, do they ask for with regard to its design?
Mostly, they want it to feel great, look great, be healthy for their family and use less energy and water. Those are the basics of what I like to call the “five ecoprinciples.”
FULL ARTICLE >
California Home + Design
This custom home in Santa Barbara was featured in California Home + Design.
Nuns Exchange Convent for Modular
What do you do with a group of aging nuns in Denver, Colorado who are having trouble going up and down the stairs in their giant two-story convent? Scrap the whole building and hire green prefab expert Michelle Kaufmann to design modular homes for the Sisters of St. Francis Sacred Heart Province and the surrounding [...]
Prefab homes sprout green designs
Michelle Kaufmann couldn’t find an affordable, eco-friendly home in the San Francisco area in 2003, so she built her own.
Construction took 14 months. “This needs to be easier,” the architect recalls thinking. To make green homes more accessible, she says, she “stalked” factories until she found some that agreed to build her modern designs.
FULL ARTICLE [...]
7X7’s Best of the City 2009: Design
Best Design Discussion Series: EcoSalon
Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann’s new discussion series, EcoSalon, gathers the movers and shakers of the Bay Area’s green-design industry in the name of—you got it—the environment. With the likes of NYT columnist Allison Arieff and Branch Home’s Paul Donald leading lively banter about the importance of planetary first aid, we have high [...]
Target in People Magazine
We were surprised to open up People magazine and see our house on the TV in this Target ad. (ahem. I mean, surprised when I saw a stranger open their People magazine…)
