Michigan Residential Architects 8 (MIRA8)

Young & Young Architects 10-15

White and Liebler Architects 18-23

McIntosh Poris Associates 72-77

Mathison Mathison Architects 82-87

Sears Architects 26-35

Lucid Architecture

Joseph Mosey Architecture, Inc. 60-67 90-95

Elaine Keiser Architect, Inc 98-103 Architecture

Brian Neeper Architecture

Mark Johnson and Associates 106-111

Publisher’s Note

By Nick Tsontakis AIA, NCARB, MRAIC

Welcome to Michigan Residential Architects (MIRA). The aim of this publication is to connect Michigan Residential Architects and Industry Partners in the Design and Construction industry with the general public and raise awareness of the importance of architecture and design in everyday life.

MIRA is a ground breaking community of design professionals. Our purpose is to support and inspire quality design work with the most influential and talented professionals and Industry Partners in our state.

The leading residential architectural firms in Michigan came together to form Michigan Residential Architects in the Fall of 2019 to foster relationships within the Design Community and promote exceptional work in the residential real estate market. The founding members invited valued colleagues in the Design and Construction Industry to join and network with the MIRA architects. These Industry Partners include respected landscape architects, interior designers, luxury home builders, real estate professionals, artisan craftsmen, flooring professionals, construction material suppliers and construction trades such as cabinetmakers, window and door manufacturers and audio visual specialists.

The featured architectural firms have spent years honing their craft and have created award winning and sustainable projects. Their commitment to their clients, sites and budgetary constraints

have resulted in harmonious dwellings dotting every region of the state and across the nation.

The MIRA network is dedicated to promoting collaboration among those who share in the passion of designing and creating an inspiring, well-crafted home.

Architects are socially responsible and environmentally conscious. Great architecture speaks volumes and we are proud to feature the state’s finest residential firms presenting and talking about their projects in their own words.

We have partnered with quality Industry Partners who support the architects by taking out full page ads. Without our Industry Partners’ sponsorship, this publication and the further promotion of our profession to the general public would not be possible.

This high quality print magazine is sent to the top evaluated homes across the state of Michigan and in the Metropolitan Chicago area on a bi-annual basis: on or around May 31st and November 30th

A digital version of each MIRA publication is also available online.

MIRA Networking Events

MIRA is also a Networking Group bringing together our Industry Partners every quarter to discuss issues concerning the design and construction industry. We have upcoming events scheduled in different parts of the state from from Troy and Auburn Hills to Grand Rapids and Harbor Springs. Check out the event photos on pages 140-147

Nick Tsontakis AIA, NCARB, MRAIC has been president of Architects Publishing Network since 2010. He has also been in private practice since 1981

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MIRA 8

M ICHIGAN R ESIDENTIAL A RCHITECTS

CURZON CHANDELIER

Ten Reasons to Hire an Architect

1. An Architect can help you create and focus your dream house into a built reality.

Architects see the big picture. A skilled architect can help you develop and integrate your list of requirements with the other complex factors to create a unique Arizona home just for you by prioritizing your needs.

2. An Architect is a licensed professional.

Architects are educated, trained, and tested in a large range of areas, including aesthetic design, ergonomics, sociology, ecology, law, building codes, construction materials and technology. This breadth of knowledge allows foresight when evaluating competing requirements and restrictions.

3. An Architect will solve your problems with creative, elegant solutions.

Architects are trained to make buildings both functional and beautiful. An architect will be able to show you alternatives that you might not have considered possible.

4. An Architect is trained in communication.

An architect has experience effectively communicating through written word, drawing, and verbally with the key members of the project including clients, contractors, engineers, and authorities in the manner best suited to the situation.

5. An Architect has experience.

Most architects consider architecture a passion more than a vocation. They draw on past experience. They are an integral part of the design/construction community with contacts in all the fields.

6. An Architect can make your life easier!

Architects can bring pictorial suggestions to the table and assist in decisions for space planning, materials, and finishes transforming your abstract ideas into a form you can visualize.

7. An Architect is cost effective.

A well-conceived, designed, and coordinated project is more economical. Changes made on paper in the design phase are much less expensive than those made during construction.

8. Architecture is a good investment.

Great design sells from consumer products to cities. A well designed home has a higher resale value.

9. An Architect can make your building project environmentally friendly.

Skilled architects work with the environment to create spaces that are sustainable and comply with ever demanding energy performance requirements.

10. An Architect can guide you through an entire project as your advocate.

An architect will be able to assist with every aspect of a project from choosing a site, city permitting, design review board submittals to construction administration. Whether you choose to start a project from the ground up or remodel an existing space, an architect will be able to help the project run smoothly during each stage avoiding disruptive surprises.

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Sears Architects is a boutique architecture and planning firm located in Grand Rapids and Harbor Springs. Our firm has a passion for working with clients on a personal level to design their projects and ensure that it is everything that they are hoping for. Our work is heavily influenced by the project’s local vernacular style as well as shingle-style homes and cottages. We are a team of seasoned professionals with a deep understanding of the numerous factors that it takes to make a successful project.

Sears Architects, founded in 1995, provides a full-service suite of outstanding design and planning services to our clients. Our clients are located throughout the Midwest and as far as Seattle, New Jersey, and Florida. You can see more of our projects in our online portfolio at SEARSARCHITECTS.COM.

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Saroki, FAIA

Alexander Saroki,

AIA

430 N Old Woodward Ave Birmingham, Michigan 48009

info@SarokiArchitecture.com SarokiArchitecture.com

248.258.5707

Architectural Excellence Since 1983

Saroki Architecture believes that excellent architecture can be achieved at every level. From small interior details to urban spaces, the firm’s work has improved the quality of life in many communities, and that exposure has advanced the course of sustainable and durable architecture here in Michigan.

Using the best principles of urban design and sustainable architecture, Saroki Architecture has created spaces with obvious synergy and resonance. Its buildings have created places and attractions that have evolved the social, cultural, and financial well-being of many communities.

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N ORTHERN MICHIGAN STYLE

TRAVERSE CITY, PETOSKEY, HARBOR SPRINGS, GAYLORD

Joseph Mosey, R.A.

108 Center St. Suite 205 Northville, MI

248.515.4477

Elk Rapids, MI

231.498.2500

www.josephmoseyarchitecture.com

Joseph@jma-architecture.com

nc. we believe that all created meless and beautiful A project is all projects deserve our best ence, talent, passion and skill, and rchitecture is our obligation to creation of beauty in the built process and a partnership between the client, design team and construction team. A combined effort through which we strive to achieve a result as unique and personal as each individual client. If we achieve this, we feel we have succeeded.

About us

We are a small boutique style firm which is one of our greatest assets. The Firm Principal is the client design and construction contact through the entire process.

Joseph Michael Mosey, Principal, learned the craft of Architecture over many years with both commercial and residential design firms. He holds current architectural licenses in four states (Michigan, Illinois, Georgia and Ohio) and a current Michigan Builder’s License. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1991 with a Professional Bachelor Degree in Architecture. The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning is well known for a curriculum that emphasizes creativity and design and is always ranked among the top five Architecture programs in the country. JMA employs the talents of architects, project managers and draftsman to complete the project team, each with unique skills and experience tailored to the needs of each client.

"When done beautifully, Architecture will have the same power over the mind as music or poetry or any works of Art, creating meaningful human experiences"

Good Architecture is our obligation to each and every client and if done properly to our standards will tell the story of its client, its owner, its family.

"The ultimate goal of the Architect is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of Architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavor to build an earthly paradise for people"

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John Skok, AIA

Michael Poris, AIA

Laurie Hughet-Hiller, AIA

www.mcintoshporis.com

Since 1994, MPA has been delivering transformative architecture and interior design for residential clients throughout Michigan. Our practice is rooted in meaningful dialogue with the people we serve.

At MPA, we engage our clients with an open approach based on collaboration. Our designs go through deliberate stages of adjustment and refinement, always tested against the needs and aspirations of the project stakeholders. Through this inclusive process, MPA reaches a heightened understanding of the role each project plays in the lives of its clients. The design is better and more creative as a result of our collaboration and client-focused vision process.

MPA has won over 160 design awards, including 30 AIA Awards and over 75 Detroit Design Awards. MPA was named in Dwell’s Definitive List of 100 Architects and Designers Worldwide and is one of 100 firms in the United States named in Interior Design Homes debut edition as Residential Leaders.

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616.920.0545

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF MMA

MATHISON | MATHISON ARCHITECTS (MMA) recently celebrated our 10 th anniversary, commemorating a decade of impactful architecture and design. Originally established in 2013 by father-and-son Tom and Evan Mathison, MMA has grown into a diverse team of 20 architects and interior designers, and recently expanded our 6,000 square feet of downtown office space (pictured top right on the following page).

What started in a 300 square foot space above Tom’s garage, has since grown into a well-rounded and well-known firm with a vast portfolio of residential, workplace, civic, hospitality, education, adaptive reuse, and nonprofit projects.

In addition to some of our most notable nonresidential work including; the Gerald R. Ford International Airport Viewing Park Pavilion, Special Olympics Michigan Unified Sports and Inclusion Center, Glen Lake Community Schools, Eastern Kille Distillery, the Muskegon Museum of Art, and Traverse City Whiskey Co, MMA is working with dozens of families around Michigan and New England on their modern homes.

Learn more at mathisonarchitects.com and follow us on Instagram at @mathisonarchitects to keep up with our projects.

Verdant Hollow

Atwater Pond

Brower Shores

Hudson Valley Residence

Berkshire Ridge

DETAIL DESIGN APPROACH

MATHISON | MATHISON ARCHITECTS (MMA) focuses on a collaborative, concentrated approach to architecture.

We believe that the integrated vision of a project should be considered throughout the design process with all disciplines, so that at completion, no detail feels divergent from the whole. Each aspect of a space should enhance the depth of the architecture, reinforcing central themes in progressively captivating layers of design.

We emphasize functionality, spatial relationships, and precision, while being thoughtful about the impact to the environment and user. We create details that knit spaces together, that are purposeful, provocative, and express beauty in their craft.

As Architects and Designers, our goal is to help clients unlock and express a vision of their environment that aligns with their values.

Learn more at mathisonarchitects.com

Hidden Creek Residence

Hidden Creek Residence

Camp Madron Residence

Camp Madron Residence

WOODLAND DUNE WEST

Seeking a quieter lifestyle in a natural setting, the owners purchased a 2.5-acre site in a quintessential Lake Michigan dune forest, to build a warm, modern place of comfort. Our team’s primary interest was a house siting that respected cues from the landscape. An elevated bar of living space, floating in the trees, that harnessed southern light, naturally emerged as the central organizing principle.

The generous kitchen is the heart of the main level, connecting directly to every space on the floor, including the mudroom and garage. As passionate cooks who spend ample time sharing food, elevated views, access, and spacious comfort here allows for hospitality, creativity, and efficiency. The living room’s vaulted ceiling is a surprise volume, which honors of the drama of the western forest view that it frames.

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Eric De Witt, AIA Principal

201 W Washington, Suite 250 Zeeland, MI 49464

www.lucidarc.com info@lucidarc.com 616.741.0044

Lucid Architecture is a West Michigan based architecture practice focused on creating engaging and meaningful homes for discerning clients across the country.

Our projects are inspired by a passion for modern design coupled with a deep understanding of site, context, craft, and detail. We create unique modern homes of all scales and sizes for equally unique clients. The homes we design are modern, purposeful, and user-driven. They welcome gatherings, encourage family, and enhance everyday life. In short, these homes become the backgrounds for your most unforgettable moments and experiences. It’s where the best things in life happen.

We’ve honed our award-winning design process while working with dozens of clients on projects located both near and far. Building a new home is something that most people only do once or twice in a lifetime. There are many unknowns, questions, and gray areas. Our top priority is guiding our clients through the design, decision making, and building process, while making it not only a positive, but exciting experience.

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Hidden Lakes Residence

Hidden Lakes Residence

2076 M-119

Petoskey, MI 49770

elaine@ekarchitect.com

www.ekarchitect.com

231.439.0472

Your dream, our team

Building a dream is so much more than four walls and a roof. It’s where you and your children and grandchildren will find comfort and share life; it’s where your business will make a name for itself serving clients. It’s where life happens, every day!

Elaine Keiser Architect’s one-of-a-kind designs span all architectural references, from a sprawling Craftsman estate, a quaint Victorian, a long-coveted log cabin built off the beaten path, or a Contemporary two-story that’s picture-perfect for a growing family. With over twenty years of experience, Elaine designs custom homes that integrate into the landscape and showcase the natural features. Each design is tailored to the specific needs of the client. Elaine reviews the intimate details of how a family lives, plays, works, and entertains before starting to design their home. When completed and built, the home works much like the family does, with convenient routine, thoughtful care to daily activities and beauty that is revealed through the most simple, yet meaningful details.

Elaine Keiser brings excellence in all phases of design, from conception to completion, while making the process fun and enjoyable. Building the home of your dreams has never been easier.

Are you ready to get started on your dream? We’re ready, too!

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Kolbe

Mark Johnson and Associates was founded in 1997 in southeast Michigan by principal Mark Johnson. MJA offers a multi-disciplined team of professionals who work collaboratively, matching expertise to client/project needs. Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Furnishings are available as individual or turn-key services.

Considered one of the most thoughtful talents working in Michigan, Mark Johnson believes that residential architecture and design must serve the client’s individual needs and function as beautifully as it looks. For a project to be successful, his focus is not only on the importance of getting the architecture right, but that good decoration is of equal importance, and should always be a portrait of the person who lives there. The composed placement of a window and the position of a favorite reading chair facing a remarkable site vista are of equal importance to create that perfect integration of function and personal style.

MJA specializes in residential design in no particular style. Design focus is to bring to modernism a touch of warmth and personality, and to traditionalism young energy and a touch of the exotic. Details, both bold and subtle, are layered to allows the character of a home to reveal itself over time. Great homes improve with use and age and develop thru memories and permanence into inheritable heirlooms.

Mark Johnson and Associates

Residential Architecture & Interior Design

7310 Kingswood Drive, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48301

Phone: 248-543-5411 Fax 248-543-5118

www.mjaarchitects.com

Principal, Mark Johnson

“Design… is not the Pinterest or Instagram moment, it is about the level beneath the first impression, like a book or poem that one reads over and over again that gets better with each reading.”

Tom Kundig, architect

Mark Johnson and Associates

“The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them”

- David Hicks

Mark Johnson and

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Bay Harbor, Michigan

For over 50 years, we’ve been designing homes that make a statement and make memories. Each home is created around you, your dreams, and how you want to bring them to life. Our work is located on some of the most spectacular sites across the country from the majestic shores of Michigan and Martha’s Vineyard to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the coast of California. Imagine what we can do together.

Rising from the shoreline of Lake Michigan, this stunning Bay Harbor contemporary brings in the beauty of the outdoors with towering floor-to-ceiling glass accented by Connecticut fieldstone and clear Hemlock overhangs.

Bay Harbor, Michigan

Leland, Michigan

Lou DesRosiers’ philosophy that “the view is everything” comes to life in his family home with this breathtaking panorama of the Manitou Islands through seamless glass framed with Fond du Lac stone.

Leland, Michigan

Watch Our 50th Anniversary Film

We are proud to celebrate the firm’s 50th Anniversary and share our short film, Force of Nature, which takes you through the stories, inspiration and details behind our design. It became a film as much about Lou’s life as architecture, because he’s never been able to separate the two.

Go behind the drawings as Lou takes you through the firm’s history and his family’s retreat in Leland, Michigan. You’ll step inside his childhood home, designed by his father, Arthur, and find out how both deeply influenced Lou and his work.

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QUALITY | TRUSTWORTHY | EXPERIENCED

Keeping the “turn-key” mentality on our projects helps us to focus on the finer details ensuring even the small nuances of your house compliment your family and lifestyle. We are confident you will enjoy your experience working with our detail oriented and friendly team.

(231) 838-5556 | home@craft-mark.com

www.craft-mark.com

Sarah Bourgeois AIA

921 W. Eleventh Street

Suite 2W

Traverse City, MI 49684

www.sbourgeois.com

sarah@sbourgeois.com

231.947.2700

Sarah Bourgeois AIA loves to work with people and has mastered the art of listening to her clients. “It’s our duty as architects to listen and create spaces that make sense based on our clients program, in other words: design is a process that organizes the convergence of a lot of moving parts such as site and client’s vision.” Her office, Sarah Bourgeois Architects, is a full-service architectural design firm that provides a full range of architectural and planning services focusing on custom residential, remodeling and small commercial projects. Her work is found in and around Leelanau County, Traverse City, Charlevoix and the Detroit area. Sarah Bourgeois Architects has participated in the design and construction of a wide variety of building projects and her firm brings the skills needed to coordinate design documents and input from both owner and consultant along with (of course) a terrific personal design sense. Past experience includes all aspects of project development: schematic design, site layout, design development, construction documents, job coordination and job site supervision.

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JOHN ALLEGRETTI

FAIA, LEED AP+BD+C

Allegretti Architects is an architectural and planning firm founded on the principles of service, sustainability and excellence; love for the natural environment and people shepherd our firm. We see our mission as architects and planners as a social responsibility, and strive to bring the best environmental practices and client responsive solutions into harmony in each project.

A passion for quality driven decisions are reflected in all architectural solutions. For over 30 years, John Allegretti has been principal architect for over fivehundred projects across the United States and Internationally. Our practice promotes professional excellence of affordable and sustainable residential designs. John’s designs are regularly published and distributed world-wide by the home publications industry.

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES HAEFNER

BEACH SIDE ORGANIC

On the shores of Lake Michigan, this pool house was born out of a necessity for privacy and the ability to peacefully gather with family and friends. A significant number of trees had recently been removed, leaving the site edge bare, with no privacy for the in-ground pool. Having worked with the owner in the past to design his main home on this same property in 1989, we were commissioned to create a pool house that would tie seamlessly into the aesthetic of their existing structure and act as a fence on the property line. Echoing the design of the house using wood tones and adobe accents, the pool house itself is narrow, but fully functional. The simplicity of this building was born from our desire to build environmentally conscious while meeting client requirements and the existing architectural aesthetics.

Easy accessibility following ADA compliance guidelines, the space is a welcome retreat for all guests. Dipping into the pool under an open sky is only enhanced by the indigenous vegetation and sculpted landscaping. A hidden garage was added into one end of the pool house to allow the site owners storage for their recreational accoutrements without sacrificing aesthetic.

RE-IMAGINED ENVELOPE

Tucked away next to our client’s home in Forest Beach, Michigan, our firm was commissioned to create a new space that would act as both a pool and a guest house. Their program included a garden, an in-ground pool, an in-ground trampoline, and a pickleball court to encourage occupants to connect through activity. Additionally, various gathering spaces, such as the outdoor fireplace or the transitional deck encourage a more leisurely social connection. The living room and kitchen meld together to create a space that is open and inviting.

The goal was to foster the cohesive integration of nature within the home itself; from the indigenous landscaping to the capturing of sunlight through skylights and wide windows as well as the southern facing of the master bedroom. The exterior of the building has raised 2x4 battens on the outer façade to imitate tree branches, a style mimicked by the large overhang by the pool.

All materials for this build were sustainably sourced or produced within 500 miles of the site. It was built to maintain its structure against the storms off Lake Michigan and to harvest rainfall to water the garden and replenish the local watershed.

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES HAEFNER

MID-CENTURY MODERN

In 2019, we were approached by a couple with two young children interested in creating a home. But, beyond a “simple shelter”, they wanted a residence that encouraged a lifestyle that was an integration into nature and recognized its life sustaining attributes. This would be a uniquely challenging project. The site had a steep dune that limited what we were allowed to build on. We were confined to a 2,550 square foot home on a 20,145 square foot lot. Our solution was to make the buildable space as compact as possible while meeting the client’s needs.

On a slope behind a sand dune, the home emerges out of its hillside forest as if it were supported by the surrounding trees. Sustainability in mind, the triangular footprint occupies the buildable area on the lee side of the dune. This placement reduced the west wind by more than half, helped regulate interior temperatures, and reduced weathering. All invasive plant species were replaced with those indigenous. The entry stair and the foyer is in the southeast corner to capture the eastern sunlight. Glass and stucco envelop the facades, imitating the surrounding trees and sky. Tapering balconies create “nature walks” along three sides.

PHOTOGRAPHY: JOSHUA NOWICKI OF HOLT BOSSE, JAMES HAEFNER

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