In his youth, Travis Price traveled to destinations as far flung as Panama, Germany and Morocco, taking in what he calls the \u201chistoric and astonishing cultural architecture\u201d 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 \u201cpassive solar\u201d while building the first passive solar homes based on his master\u2019s thesis.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, Price worked in New York City erecting high-density housing for the poor and producing the city\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy work is driven by ecology, mythology and technology\u2014meaning nature, spirituality and modernity,\u201d he says. \u201cWe champion modernity that is environmentally self-reliant and expands our clients\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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