A long-time residential architect specializing in Pacific NorthWest Contemporary design. I do a lot of updating and redoing of  existing homes for new owners who want to maintain the basic character yet bring the home into the 21st Century. Our own Mercer Island home is an example of what I do and how I do it as shown on my updated multilinked jgWebSite. (Click to open)  http://jgropp2.googlepages.com/alterationsanadditions

Although I'm a native Seattlelite- born and raised in Seattle and a graduate of the University of Washington's highly-regarded School of Architecture, I'm widely-travelled having been to 55 counties so far (many of them multiple times), all seven continents, Antarctica as well as the Arctic.

I thoroughly understand the NorthWest climate and other localized considerations we home designers must take into account. Eastern and mid-Western styles- many with wide white trim- are usually out of place here on the West Coast. A more expansive connection with nature than that glimpsed through smaller "stock" windows is needed to enjoy what's outside and to bring a feeling of spaciousness to the interior. A hallmark of "NorthWest Architecture"- Island or otherwise- is exposed natural wood framing with lots of job-built "stopped-in" windows bringing in the outside view and/or garden. The resulting effect is akin to that of our modern cars with the building envelope being either solid or transparent. This is in contrast to the usual ordinary building practice of framing a big box with cut-out openings limited by the sizes of often expensive and usually overly complicated stock windows.

• Unwise Changes needing Undoing-

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• Jerry Gropp AIA Stairways

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• One of my best Mercer Island custom homes at a very good price.

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• How did a Seattle architect come to design an Argentine ranch house?

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• in the Seattle Post Intelligencer online- my new Reader Blog on Northwest Modern Architecture.

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• How I added "Bling" to my '07 Prius Touring-

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• Some of my Mid-Century Modern Remodeling, Alterations and/or Updates-

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• Opening our Master Bedroom to the Garden.

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• as to today's "Craftsman" Homes-

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• Lotta Livin' (a Mid-Century Modern Blog)

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• Jerry Gropp Architect AIA PS-

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• a SeattlePI Reader Blog- by JG AIA

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• a "Mid-Century Modern" home right down on the Pacific Ocean beach at Ocean Shores, Washington.

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• so What's to like about "Mid-Century Modern" homes especially in these foreclosure days.

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• You can be a Real Estate Vulture, too!

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• RE Agents and Residential Architects can (and should) work together to sell houses in these troubled times-

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• This MCM* home turned out to be an important part of our Semi-"Retirement Strategy"-

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• RainCityGuide- a Seattle Blog-

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• Moving to Seattle or Seattle's EastSide Suburbs- Bellevue, Kirkland, Renton and Mercer Island-

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• Collaboration- an important concept.

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  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  Thank you for your comment above. We were in Rajasthan last year and
  enjoyed your country and the people so very much. So...

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  We were very glad to have-

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  We were very glad to have a good Indian driver on our Rajasthan trip last year. He was extremely skilled and a lovely pers...

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  Distracting-

  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  The content was very useful but I found the bright red highlighting highly distracting.

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  Your comments-

  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  Hi Joe- Your comments are entirely fair. However, I had just started working on this as you will see by the note added ove...

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  and Furthermore-

  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  As to "YesNoNeutral or not applicable Explain why ...
  Did you find this knol useful?
  
  NoIt lacks sufficient detail to det...

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  Good article- my feelings exactly- see my related Knol (and my others). JG-

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  https://knol.google.com/k/jerry-gropp-architect-aia/mid-century-modern-homes-are-good/246qxuxd260sm/65#view

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  A very comprehensive "Knol" on Hybrid Cars-

  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  Here's mine from a different angle- that of the user. JG
  
  https://knol.google.com/k/jerry-gropp-architect-aia/my-hybrid-ho...

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  A very nice informative Knol-

  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  Here's mine on the same subject- from a User's standpoint- with a twist. JG
  https://knol.google.com/k/jerry-gropp-architec...

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  What you say is entirely true-

  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  Peter- What you say is entirely true- as my wife and I have found on our 7 trips to Argentina. See my Google "Knol" on the...

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  Useful information-

  byJerry Gropp Architect AIA

  I've always been a "hands-on" architect as my WebSite shows. See the curved bench that I built using cedar strips,long cla...

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