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Interview: Traditional Home Builder Devin P. Rutkowski
The retention of vernacular architectural practices maintains a place’s connection to its past. It also informs the direction it charts into the future. I’m currently living in a small town in Florida—Sarasota—that has had its share of troubles during a growth process that has seen disparate vernacular styles such as Florida Cracker and the Sarasota School emerge, prosper, decline, and slowly reemerge. A new crop of craftsmen/builders are reviving traditional design, including Devin P. Rutkowski, founder and president of Bungalow Builders, LLC.
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Posted in architecture, Culture, History, Interview, Josh Grigsby, Local Inspiration, Placemaking, Sarasota, urban design, urban planning, vernacular architecture, What if?
Tagged Arts & Crafts, bungalow builders, Craftsman, Devin Rutkowski, durable design, Florida Cracker, green building, historic homes, mass production, mixed-use, New Urbanism, pedestrianism, planologie interview, Sarasota bungalows, Sarasota School, suburban design, sustainable building, TND, traditional homes, Traditional Neighborhood Design, vernacular architecture
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