The Simple Home The Luxury of Enough by Sarah Nettleton and Frank Edgerton Martin is available and may be ordered at your local bookstore or via this site.
"WHAT is simplicity in a home, and how can we achieve it? It's more spiritual than specific, these authors say. And they make some good points, in prose and pictures.....So don't be fooled into building or buying something with too much of what you don't need, and too little of what you do."
-- Bettijane Levine, Copyright (c) 2007 Los Angeles Times
Sarah Nettleton Architects will have a booth at the 2008 Living Green Expo to be held May 3-4, 2008 at the State Fairgrounds in St Paul, MN. Buy your own signed copy of The Simple Home and find out about the solarlightbox, a PV powered light up house number. Stop by and ask about your own green project.
Sarah Nettleton was a member of the HOTM Awards sponsored by AIAMN and The Minneapolis Star and Tribune selecting 12 homes for publication in the paper. At the awards presentation, she presented The Simple Home: Six Paths to Sustainability. Over the last year, Sarah has presented this talk to numerous audiences across the country.
Sarah Nettleton Architects is pleased to announce that the firm has been selected as the lead architect for the new Mississippi Watershed Management Organization headquarters building. In conjunction with Michael Huber Architects, Sarah's firm will be incorporating elements of sustainable design into the building on a site yet to be selected.
Sarah Nettleton was a member of the AIA Nebraska 2007 Honor Awards Jury and presented the Awards at The Design Awards ceremony in Lincoln, NE.
A book review of The Simple Home appeared in the on line London Financial Times. Over the last year, book reviews have appeared in over thrity magaines and newspapers across the USA and in Europe.
Gregg Hunter featured "Brooklyn House" from The Simple Home in a piece showcasing green homes in NewYork City. Sarah has been featured in a half dozen local TV and radio appearances talking about The Simple Home.
Sarah Nettleton Architects teamed with michael huber architects has been selected as a Governor's MNGreat AWARD winner for the Ramsey Washington Metro Watershed District Offices in Little Canada, MN. The building and site design model the mission of the District in stormwater BMPs and in the form of the building as an educational demonstration.
A book review of The Simple Home appeared in Environmental Building News and can be read at www.building green.com.
Sarah Nettleton, author, was the guest of host Nate Berkus on Oprah and Friends, a satellite radio show, for an hour long interview about the book on January 15, 2007.
Sarah Nettleton has been featured in this book as a woman architect for her leadership in green, and her design for the Tofte Cabin is included as a case study.
Sarah Nettleton Architects has been selected as a Residential Architects Vision and Excellence (RAVE) award winner for the Sustainable Modernist: meets Kyoto Protocol home. This program is jointly sponsored by AIA Minnesota and Mpls.St.Paul Magazine to promote excellence in residential design and raise awareness of the benefits of working with an architect.
Sarah Nettleton has been featured in the annual residential architecture issue. The recently completed modernist structure is in St. Louis Park and was designed to take advantage of the site as well as meeting the energy requirements of the Kyoto Protocol.
Sarah Nettleton has received a 2005 award from the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (MASLA) for her design titled “City Symmetries.” An unusual walled garden in Kenwood, Minneapolis, the design is sophisticated, yet inviting. It has also been featured in the June, 2004, issue of the national publication landscape architecture.
Sarah Nettleton is now LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accredited through U. S. Green Building Council. Her designs incorporate elements of Sustainable Design and she is recognized as a leader in this area.
Sarah Nettleton Architects has been certified as a woman owned business by WBENC, the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. WBENC is one of the bet known third party organizations that certifies a firm as being at least 51% woman-owned. Their certification is accepted by more than 500 major corporations and a number of governmental agencies.
"Environmental Idyll" by Camille LeFevre tells the story of the Tofte Cabin from the point of view of its owner, Medora Woods. She discusses the many aspects of her journey down the path of sustainable design with Sarah Nettleton.
The Tofte Project was selected by the American Institute of Architects, along with the other COTE Top 10 projects from 2002, to represent the state of sustainable design in the United States at the Construmat 2003 building fair in Barcelona. This recently published catalog contains proceedings from some of the talks and round-tables, along with information on the array of international projects that were exhibited.
