Craig Steely is a California and Hawaii based architect. His buildings have been described as true and unique hybrids of these two environments. They embrace the realities of the environment and our separation/connection to it over the subjugation of it, all the while focusing on developing a singular architecture rooted in its context.
Active projects include work in Hawaii, Mexico, as well as several along the coast of California-from Sea Ranch to San Francisco to Big Sur. He received his architecture degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He has lectured at the University of Hawaii, the University of California at Berkeley, Cal Poly and at many conferences including the Monterey Design Conference.
Active projects include work in Hawaii, Mexico, as well as several along the coast of California-from Sea Ranch to San Francisco to Big Sur. He received his architecture degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He has lectured at the University of Hawaii, the University of California at Berkeley, Cal Poly and at many conferences including the Monterey Design Conference.
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Craig Steely lives and works in a Venn diagram carved out between two dramatically different environments: the difficult, usually steep, infill sites of the California Bay Area and the remote lava fields of the Big Island of Hawaii. This overlapping shape has become a proving ground for his architectural ideas and a place where ideas very specific to each location can coexist in the same project.
Located on 100 acres of pasture land near the Kalopa Native Forest Reserve on the northeast slope of Mauna Kea. This cast-in-place concrete house is completely off the grid-powered by PV panels and catching all domestic water on the roof and storing it in cisterns. In this windy location an interior courtyard offers protected outdoor living.
The house floats in the canopy of a dense Oak grove in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains just west of Silicon Valley. The conceptual idea came clearly and quickly-float a glass box in the leaves of the trees on two trunk-like columns, disrupting as few oaks as possible. The dense tree canopy offers the opportunity to build a completely glass walled house, protected from the direct rays of the sun, yet filled with dappled sunlight.
Atherton California, just down El Camino from Stanford University, is in the heart of Silicon Valley. It is a suburban city characterized by mature trees and homes on large plots hidden behind fences. The climate is temperate, almost Mediterranean and the owner wanted a house where she could live outdoors as much as possible.
In Japan, ramen shops are not fancy or precious but places where you eat quickly and get on with things. In contrast to this "fast food " experience is the care taken in what is served by the ramen cooks. They take what they do so very seriously and challenge each other to make so much out of this relatively simple and common dish.
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