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Welcome to lamidesign.com/plans, here
is our story.
Why Stock plans?
Why modern home plans?
A quick guide to the site
Why Stock plans? Stock home plans is
not an area of practice that most architects care to get involved in. Stock
plans have a reputation for uninspired design, and as often as not are
designed by people without formal architectural education or legal architectural
credentials. The cookie cutter designs look like much of the same old houses
that are being built across the country. That is a critical view because
even though most of the designs are ordinary, stock plans are a good value
to the consumer costing a fraction of the price of hiring an architect.
The biggest problem that architects have with stock plans is that there
is not much architecture there. Architects believe in each situation warranting
a unique design solution, which is completely contradictory to stock designs.
More recently some architects have changed their view and have advocated
the sale of plans from past projects done for individual clients as stock
plans. This is seen as an easy way to create a selection of plans to sell
from good work that would otherwise collect dust. Overall the practice
has been advocated as a way to bring better design to more people.
Why modern home plans? We have always
favored modern/contemporary design for residential architecture, but the
day to day life of a small architectural practice on the east coast does
not encounter many clients interested in this kind of design. Experience
shows that most people are interested in traditional homes. The success
of Dwell Magazine has made us think
differently about this. Dwell is a relatively new magazine, 3 years old,
dedicated to modern homes. It is a cross between an architectural journal
and a home magazine covering issues from architecture to furnishings and
shopping. Judging from Dwell's circulation it turns out there are hundreds
of thousands of people who like modern design, they are educated, they
are interested in art and design, and many of them would love a home of
unusual design and materials. But unless they can afford to hire an architect
and design one, or are lucky enough to find an existing modern house, or
creative enough to make their own, well... they are out of luck. Developers
building new modern homes are very rare. Well then, how about stock plans
for modern homes? We did an exhaustive internet search for modern home
plans, and we found nothing available.
Our mission is to fill the void in the stock plan marketplace
by offering modern home designs. Our designs are flexible and allow different
people to use them in different ways. It is possible to build our designs
with conventional methods familiar to any builder, or to introduce unique
materials. If you always wanted a modern home, but thought a custom design
was beyond your reach, then we think you may really like what you find
here. We don't know of anything else like it.
A quick guide to the site:
Plans:
This is our online catalog of plans. Stock plan catalogs usually give you
nothing more than a floor plan and a sketch of the front of the house.
We are going to try and give you more information so you can have a better
idea of what the houses are like. More information, better decisions.
Info: This
is information about what is included with the plans, answers to common
questions, and the details of the plan license terms. Lots of dry reading,
we will try to keep it interesting.
Order:
Here you will find pricing, directions on how to order, payment methods,
and downloadable order formwork.
Plans are designed and produced by Gregory La Vardera
Architect located in Merchantville, NJ. To learn more about the architectural
practice producing these designs please visit our home web site at lamidesign.com. You can reach us
by email at plans@lamidesign.com.
