THE WENDE MUSEUM | GRAND OPENING

The Wende Museum by PARAVANT Architects celebrates the grand opening in Culver City, CA. This week the new home of The Wende Museum is featured by multiple news outlets and many people have visited to experience the brand new exhibition space:

• Los Angeles Times
• Culver City News
• Santa Monica Mirror
• The Argonaut
• LA Curbed
• Klatsch-Tratsch
• FABRIK - Contemporary Art & Design

NEW BOOK | “Passive House Buildings - California’s Energy Future”

PHCA, in collaboration with Low Carbon Productions has release the first book documenting the Passive House building pioneers working in California. The book presents 32 Passive House buildings located across California, including the first three in the Los Angeles Area.  It documents how the Passive House Standard is being utilized to meet the carbon reduction and climate change goals. This book demonstrates how the Passive House Standard provides a reliable and well-documented path to construct and renovate buildings to meet our State’s Net Zero Energy targets. More than ever the Passive House Standard is the way to design, build, and retrofit our buildings in California.

PARAVANT Architects is excited to be featured in the book “Passive House Buildings - California’s Energy Future” with a new ground-up passive house building in Los Angeles/CulverCity.

http://www.passivehousecal.org/news/2016-passive-house-california-book

Embassy

PARAVANT Architect's design for the Swiss Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon is published on the "World Architecture News".

PREFAB AGENDA - sustainable dwelling design for the 21st century

PARAVANT ARCHITEKTUR has most recently been published in "PREFAB AGENDA - sustainable dwelling design for the 21st century" the latest online book by Robert Mendel:

"Sustainable Dwelling Design for the 21st Century describes the global challenges we face and how prefab building technologies can effectively address the crucial issues of sustainability and affordability. .... Many of these systems are not well known despite the fact that they are innovative, efficient and cost-effective. These include modular, panelized, steel, aluminum, foam, concrete, hybrid and kit assembly systems."

Among those profiled are:

• KieranTimberlake
• Michelle Kaufmann
• LivingHomes
• Oskar Leo Kaufmann & Albert Ruf
• Paravant
• Graft
• Kjellgren Kaminsky
• Hive
• Larry Sass and 
• Eric Owen Moss