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April 4, 2022

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34 DIGS.NET | 4.8.2022 A R C H I T E C T U R E + D E S I G N P R O F I L E | C R A I G S T E E LY ITH PAM AND PAUL'S HOUSE, an unambiguously work of modern architecture in Cupertino, California, architect Craig Steely is in his element—at the intersection between the natural and built environments. "I'm interested in the dialogue between man-made forms and natural forms, in creating spaces in nature," says the architect, who grew up in the California mountains. He made stuff, observed things, improvised. "Some of my earliest memories of space were formed around things I discovered outside; things in nature, like the way a path wound between two rocks or how a circle of pine trees created a room. I felt these reverences or feelings of architecture before I even knew what architecture was!" Steely's noticing of these spaces grew into creating these spaces, "first in a tree, or stacking rocks, or out of driftwood on a beach" and "later in buildings that have a strong reverence for nature without trying to copy it." These buildings form a compelling and ambitious body of work that includes Steely's Lavaflow series of Hawaii homes, a boxy houseboat in Sausalito, and a pair of pyramid-shaped towers in the jungle cliffs of Sayulita, Mexico. Given the conceptual nature of his work, it's not surprising that Steely is a draw in Silicon Valley, where he designed a seemingly roofless house W

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