Rick Hauser

The outside of a "SAVE" energy-efficient home.

Build small, smart and invest in the sun

Talk is cheap, but building is not. Some of you have asked me to stop talking about building small and show an example of a small, sustainable home. Fair enough.

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Architecture Matters
NamanaBe Hall in Madagascar, just completed by Perry-based In. Site: Architecture, illustrates some principles for design with a conservation agenda.

A nature center with a mission in Madagascar

Perry architect designs a research facility to suit the forest of a lush African island.

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Architecture matters
A National Register designation in downtown Perry helped encourage a complete rehab of the Howell Building in downtown Perry, which subsequently attracted two destination retail businesses.

Tar and feather your building, or rehab it

I am a building owner and I don’t want anyone telling me what I can and cannot do with my building. That's why I love the National Register.

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Architecture Matters
Simple, changeable, two-sided glass block photo frames — and they don’t need to be plugged in.

Buying for your Inner Architect

To help make sense of it all I’ve developed these five simple rules for making your Inner Architect’s Holiday Shopping List.

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Architecture Matters
Above, a forecourt/carport - illuminated through a polycarbonate roof – preserves open space at the center of the existing clearing in the woods. As pictured below, the entrance marks the start of a journey via a “path back to nature ”for its owner and visitors, with rooms arrayed to either side of a circulation spine focused on the forest.

Occupy the Genesee Valley

As an architect, I “occupy” much of my time exploring how design can amplify the experience of place, and how places can enhance the rituals of daily living.

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Architecture matters
Perry New York LLC rehabilitated this 12,000 square foot building in 2008. It now houses 12 businesses on three levels

‘Main Street LLC’ brings buildings back to life

As the title implies, this is a for-profit development group that nonetheless recognizes the qualitative — as well as quantitative — benefits of reversing the momentum caused by blighting structures.

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Architecture Matters
Design tips from farmers

Design tips from farmers

The height and breadth and length of a modern free stall barn can feel like a cathedral from the inside — seemingly endless rows of trusses.

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Architecture Matters
What camping teaches us about our homes

What camping teaches us about our homes

If it comes as a surprise that a feature about architecture should start with a column about camping, it shouldn’t

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Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 p.m. for most of upstate New York. The advisory affects 12 counties in Western New York, including Livingston,

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WEATHER

Weather Service to offer Skywarn training in Mount Morris

The Buffalo office of the National Weather Service will conduct a Skywarn spotter training seminar May 29 at the Livingston County Fire Training Facility, 3360 Gypsy Lane, Mount Morris. The

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COMMUNITY

Needs assessment survey being analyzed

Data collected from nearly 400 responses to a Community Needs Assesment posted online earlier this year and being reviewed.

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ACCIDENT

Pedestrian has ‘serious injuries’ after being struck by car

An Avon man suffered "serious injuries" after being struck while walking on Route 5 and 20 in the town, just west of Dutch Hollow Road, late Sunday night.

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ENVIRONMENT

County’s ‘Year of Energy’ begins with Wednesday lecture

Livingston County’s Environmental Management Council will begin a “Year of Energy” initiative with a May 22 lecture.

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BUSINESS
Paper mache animals from Africa are among recent handmade Fair Trade items offered at Geneseo’s Cafe Shiloh. Most of the raw materials are recycled or are made from renewable resources.

Cafe Shiloh offers selection of Fair Trade merchandise

Cafe Shiloh is carrying lines of Fair Trade merchandise, handmade crafts which are purchased at fair prices from their creators in Third World nations.

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