Travis Price Architects

In his youth, Travis Price traveled to destinations as far flung as Panama, Germany and Morocco, taking in what he calls the “historic and astonishing cultural architecture” of those places. He avidly studied architecture, poetry, philosophy and art, eventually becoming an architect and launching his firm in 1980 in New Mexico, where he coined the term “passive solar” while building the first passive solar homes based on his master’s thesis.

Subsequently, Price worked in New York City erecting high-density housing for the poor and producing the city’s first solar collectors. He then worked with the Tennessee Valley Authority on a 1.3-million-square-foot passive solar building. Today, he is based in DC, where he and a staff of 10 pursue national and international projects. Price lectures regularly to audiences at the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society and the AIA.

“My work is driven by ecology, mythology and technology—meaning nature, spirituality and modernity,” he says. “We champion modernity that is environmentally self-reliant and expands our clients’ spirit. On every project, we aspire to instill a spirit of place, harmony of building and the union of landscape and interior living as one.”

See more at HandD.com/ TravisPriceArchitects