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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Kariouk Architecture
Kariouk Architecture
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Paul duBellet Kariouk is an architect licensed in the state of New York whose work has focused upon residential and commercial commissions, both in new construction, landscape and interior renovation. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his professional architectural degree from Columbia University in New York City. In 1998 he established his own practice and in 2001 he moved his office, PdK: A / Kariouk Architecture, from New York City to Ottawa.
Kariouk’s design work has received many awards, has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries including New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where his architectural installation, (a)way station, completed with Mabel Wilson, was acquired for the permanent collection. His work has been published in such journals as Architectural Record, I.D., and Azure and has been featured on television including the series House and Home and Homes by Design. In partnership with several colleagues collectively named Ground-Works, he was one of five short-listed architects for the international competition for the African Burial Ground marking Manhattan’s controversial colonial-era slave cemetery.
Kariouk is actively involved in architectural education and has taught and lectured throughout North America. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Carleton University. His scholarly work and critical commentaries appear in such journals as Architecture Magazine, anthologies such as the Pragmatist Imagination published by Princeton Architectural Press, and he appears frequently on CBC Radio as a guest commentator on issues of urban and public space.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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