Building Tour: Travis Price’s Modern Tree House

On this exclusive building tour, step inside the “Tree House,” a 3,500-square-foot residence designed by architect Travis Price, FAIA, of Travis Price Architects. Perched on a cliff high above Rock Creek Park and supported by two underground steel columns, the home appears to float above the forest. Price will lead the tour, sharing insights into its passive solar features, myth-inspired design, and his firm’s vision rooted in ecology, mythology, and technology.

Schedule:

9:45am: Check-in & light refreshments (Travis Price Architects 2805 Chesterfield PL NW Washington, DC 20008)

10:00am: Welcome/Introduction

10:15am: Tour

11:15am: Q&A

11:30am: Tour Concludes

About Travis Price

Travis Price is a celebrated architect, environmental pioneer, author, educator, and philosopher has developed over the past four decades, a modern architecture that works hand in hand with ecology and mythology restoring the spirit of place to modern design. His vision is grounded in real-life success with large-scale AIA award-winning private and public works, including the world’s largest solar building for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He has planned new towns and designed an array of unique individual residences, commercial properties, and institutional monuments. He coined the term “passive solar” with his early green architectural works in New Mexico. He installed the first wind machine in Manhattan which initiated the Public Utilities Regulation Policy Act allowing co-generation of wind and solar energy with public utilities. Since 1975, he has a litany of Design Awards within the US and abroad. In concert with The Catholic University of America as adjunct professor, Travis Price founded and directs the non-profit Spirit of Place – Spirit of Design. Travis is featured in numerous films, radio, and TV programs, and international publications. Travis Price’s education, like his work, spans philosophy and architecture. He holds both a B.A. in Western Philosophy from St. John’s College and a combined Masters of Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology and The University of New Mexico. Travis Price is a registered architect with NCARB practicing and lecturing throughout the United States and abroad. He has been awarded the covetous Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture Title for his unique contributions to the field of Architecture. Travis is a contributing Editor to National Geographic Traveler Magazine. Travis lectures to audiences at the Smithsonian Institution, Apple Headquarters, AIA, and the National Geographic Society amongst others. His lectures inspire architectural societies, universities, and conferences. Travis is well known for his internationally published works in numerous books and journals on design and architecture. Travis appeared on HGTV at his home declared as one of the Greenest Homes of the World and more recently in a documentary, “The Tale of the Tongs”, filmed in County Mayo Ireland.

Travis has also contributed chapters to a plethora of design books and personally authored three recent books: The Archaeology of Tomorrow: Architecture & the Spirit of Place, The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place, Travis Price Architects : 2007-2013, and a documentary film, Tale of the Tongs.

About Travis Price Architects

Travis Price Architects is an award-winning architecture firm widely applauded for its innovative discoveries, theories and visionary aesthetics. Based in Washington, DC, Travis Price Architects shapes architecture informed by ecology, mythology and technology; restoring the spirit of place to modern design. Each work speaks to the heart of the built environment’s natural and human stewardship. Guided by a humanities-based perspective with a passion for sustaining nature and culture, Travis Price Architects’ quest for the mythic modern inspires a reinvigorated architecture of the 21st Century. TPA seeks to create an enduring archaeology for tomorrow. Travis Price Architects’ award-winning buildings range from residential projects to large commercial and institutional architecture with projects in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. TPA demonstrates that green design and culturally diverse inspirations comprise the leading determinants in today’s architecture. TPA seeks to inspire and redefine the heritage and the cultural potential of modern global architecture. Travis Price Architects strives to shape your story in authentic forms that will endure and perpetually inform the world.

Image courtesy Ken Wyner: Photographer