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Collection by Clifford Nies

Mythic Meets Modern

The idea, Price writes, is to “bring our human story and nature’s power back into modern architecture.”

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In 1993, the students designed a temple consisting of an eight-by-eight- foot cube perched on a floating platform beneath a canopy.
In 1993, the students designed a temple consisting of an eight-by-eight- foot cube perched on a floating platform beneath a canopy.
In 1999, Price took Spirit of Place to Peru to build a houseboat for an eco-tourist retreat on the Yarapa River, a tributary of the Amazon.
In 1999, Price took Spirit of Place to Peru to build a houseboat for an eco-tourist retreat on the Yarapa River, a tributary of the Amazon.
The floating room emulates local huts with its steep thatched roof that easily sheds the region’s punishing rains.
The floating room emulates local huts with its steep thatched roof that easily sheds the region’s punishing rains.
Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design, a program conceived by The Catholic University of America architecture professor Travis Price, takes students to out-of-the way settings to craft monuments that reflect local folklore.
Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design, a program conceived by The Catholic University of America architecture professor Travis Price, takes students to out-of-the way settings to craft monuments that reflect local folklore.