Barcode House : By David Jameson Architect

Washington DC, United States
David Jameson Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Paul Warchol Photography

Barcode House explores juxtapositions between the heavy and light and the old and the new.

Matryoshka House : By David Jameson Architect

Bethesda, Maryland, United States
David Jameson Architect
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Located in Bethesda, Maryland this small house is organized as a series of volumes nested one inside another.  At the core of the volumes is a suspended meditation chamber.

Tea House : By David Jameson Architect

Bethesda, Maryland, United States
David Jameson Architect
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The Tea House is nestled within a leafy backyard of a suburban home. Constructed of bronze and glass, the new structure references the form of a Japanese lantern and functions as a tea house, meditation space, and stage for the family’s musical recitals. This project recently received a 2010 Washington DC AIA Award of Merit.

House on Hooper’s Island : By David Jameson Architect

Hooper’s Island, Maryland, United States
David Jameson Architect

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The House on Hooper’s Island is about land, sea, sky.

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A couple hours drive from Washington, D.C., Hooper’s Island, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore on the Chesapeake Bay, seems to exist in a time warp. One of the state’s oldest settled areas, the island was originally agrarian. Today, many of the 400-odd residents of the sleepy community—with simple, saltbox houses dotting the flat, waterfront expanses—are watermen: crabbers, oyster tongers, and seafood packers. For some 300 years, it is said, the population could be traced to 10 families. So when a Modernist, metal-clad weekend compound designed by Alexandria, Virginia-based architect David Jameson, FAIA, started to rise along its shores, one can only imagine the chattering rattling the walls of The Island Pride, the local gas station-cum-hardware store and grocery-cum-restaurant.