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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#333333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="2b28ec00ddualp.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#333333" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#99FF99" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" >Studio 300A Art+ Architecture</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" >    </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" > </FONT><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Studio 300A Art Architecture"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>About</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="gazette.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and Events"><U><B>News and Events</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="recent_architectural_works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Architecture"><U><B>Architecture</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="various_works_on_paper_by_artist__barry_peterson.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artwork"><U><B>Artwork</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="ways_to_reach_deliberate_design.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact "><U><B>Contact </B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="art_and_architectural_links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><B>Links</B></U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05c58020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>About</B></div> <div> We are a relatively new  architecture firm in Northern California and we specialize in highly site-specific design for man-made environments.  We are very interested in the relationships between human activities and the land in which they are enacted upon--as well as the communities they take place in.  Architecture is the meeting place between human concerns and the terrain.  Our architecture seeks to bring these together in very meaningful, personal and unrepeatable ways.  We are also very aware that buildings and built environments do not stop at the property line, but have an affect on communities in positive or negative ways.  Though our design concerns may be as small as door knobs and drawer pulls, we never lose sight of the connectivity our work ( your project) has with the community or the landscape it occurs in. What we hope to leave behind for our clients are not only beautiful, wholesome spaces to live or work, but meaningful places in the world to come and go from.</div> <bR> <div> There is a term the French use to describe the unrepeatable stamp of all the components of a particular piece of land imbues on the wine made from that land. It is "Terroir". It is the influence a particular piece of earth has on what grows from it and it can be elusive yet undeniable.  We are firm believers that buildings should also a discernable terroir to them.</div> <bR> <div> We are interested in residential and commercial architecture, as well as site and urban planning projects.  We are also well versed at the adaptive re-use of existing structures.  Though we do not fly the rather popular banner of "green" architecture at our place of business, we have had a strong interest in fully integrating our projects to the land they exist on but long before such things were fashionable.  We are also very interested in energy conservation.  What living, thinking being doesn't?  Addressing these concerns involves the careful selection of material and the means by which they are installed to help preserve what is left of our local resourses, and by tenuous extension, our global ecosystems.  In short, we are very environmentally sensitive in our design work, but we do not use this as a primary means of marketing ourselves before the world.  It is just common, good design sense.  Nothing to boast about, really. (except of course for right here).</div> <bR> <div> Architect  Barry Peterson is the Principal Architect for Studio 300A and was schooled at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and was an apprentice architect at Frank Lloyd Wright's <A HREF="http://www.taliesin.edu/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.taliesin.edu/"><U>Taliesin and Taliesin West</U></A>.  He has worked for Taliesin Architects, as well as Daniel Liebermann, John M Davis and Warren Callister here in the Bay Area--as well as Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz and Fee Munson Ebert and John Goldman in San Francisco, CA. In 2002 he was licensed  by the State of California (C 29092) to practice on commercial and public projects under the auspices of his own firm.</div> <bR> <div> We are networked with a number of <A HREF="http://www.driftwoodsalvage.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.driftwoodsalvage.com"><U>building </U></A><A HREF="http://www.driftwoodsalvage.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.driftwoodsalvage.com"><U>salvage operations</U></A> and often have access to unusual and sometimes very inexpensive materials to incorporate into projects.  The use of certain salvaged materials often enhance the visual and tactile qualities of spaces and structures--as well as conserves building materials.  </div> <bR> <div> We are also networked with a group of like-minded ex-Taliesin and decidedly non-Taliesin folks here in the Bay Area for the purpose of teaming up on larger projects, or for meeting insane deadlines, or, in truth, just for a decent glass of wine.</div> <bR> <div> Barry Peterson and spouse Leslie Allen are two among many Sausalito artists.  There is a great deal of overlap between the artist's hand and eye and the architect's awareness of masses and the spaces between them.  They are a natural combination.  Thus, this rather crude and simple web site gives you a small sample of works of architecture as well as of art.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="3c37b2e0.jpg" border=0 width="379" height="302" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Barry Peterson </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Below is a slowly growing resource of documents that offer some explanation of architectural services in general and also what is different about the way we approach the profession of architecture.  These are meant to be easy reading and very helpful if you are thinking of embarking on a building project, whether it be new construction in residential or commercial endeavors, adaptive re-use of structures, additions, interior design, site planning <I>or perhaps something we have never done previously.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <a href="HTMLobj-967/ArchServices.pdf"><u>ArchServices.pdf</u> </a>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>