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Robert Foulkes

Robert Foulkes

I grew up on the fruit growing shores of Lake Michigan, part of a large extended family of farmers.  I must have gained an appreciation of the vernacular buildings during these early years. I roofed houses and repaired porches during college years in Ann Arbor and started a construction company in 1975 that became White Oak Timber Frame Ltd. I returned to a university in 1989 to study Urban Planning and Policy after having established a working relation with Sam Marts in Chicago. My interests have all melded in my work history, community planning, forestry, woodworking.

The past ten years have brought opportunities to recycle buildings working with the National Park Service and private projects to extend the walkable urban patterns in small towns and to teach some of what I have learned to architecture students at Andrews University and to others at hands on “workcamps” from northern New Hampshire to southern Alabama. My interest in energy efficient building, born in the 1970s, continues.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.April 7, 2021 at 12:31am

Spring, Sprang, Sprung!
Today the office of Sam Marts Architects & Planners was blessed with cherry blossoms right outside the front glass-block window.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.April 2, 2021 at 12:02am

No Foolin’! April 1, 1987, Sam Marts, Architects became a “business”. 35 years and counting. Thank you to all who supported my efforts.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.March 28, 2021 at 12:19am

The living room will be a double-height cubic volume. The fireplace is the anchor of the room and house. Additional timbers will form the mantle and balcony railing. The kitchen is adjacent to the living room and her home office will overlook the tall space.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.March 27, 2021 at 2:01pm

The center door opens out into the woods from the single-story coat room. The deck above is partially covered by the hip roof. At the top, a whole-house fan exhausts air from the light monitor. On the right is a small deck with a hot…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.March 26, 2021 at 2:04am

The (west) kitchen elevation is the most linear. The one-story entry element on the left side shelters a hot tub. The prow/bay projects to the right and the light monitor rises from the roof. As a fun detail, the phases of the moon are on…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.March 25, 2021 at 2:47am

The south elevation faces the road and appears like a “one-room school house”. The center prow/bay window splits the facade into halves. On the left, windows stack, reflecting the two-story space within. The chimney mass reaches skyward above the gable roof line.

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Chicago, Illinois 60647
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