Sustainable Design

  Architect Alicja Hudson has recently joined our team at Gettliffe Architecture.  We’ve asked her to share her experience volunteering in Guatemala, building a school in a remote village. [...]

by Ben Granlund The Gettliffe Architecture team attended The International Ecotourism Conference (TIES) in Quito, Ecuador this spring to showcase the importance of architecture in ecotourism [...]

by Dominique Gettliffe Gettliffe Architecture participated in the International Ecotourism Society (TIES) Conference in Ecuador this spring, then spent a few days exploring two of the four main [...]

by Nathan Knecht   A number of factors, including rising fuel costs and increased awareness of the close links between food and health, are prompting another round of critical thinking aimed [...]

Straw bale building offers unique design opportunities, with the use of natural materials and a relatively sustainable construction process. We love straw bale for its thermal stability (from [...]

A view of the sun setting over Rocky Mountains is one of the most spectacular sights in Colorado, but this western sun also poses a spectacular problem for passive solar architecture. So how do [...]

This inspiring video shows how a resourceful man from the Philippines has given the gift of light to buildings in his community and around the world.  Through creative reuse of plastic bottles, [...]

About three years ago, upon meeting with Tamdin, who came to Colorado as a Tibetan refugee, I was introduced to the high-stamina work that Tibetan Village Project (TVP) [...]

“You cannot make a building unless you are joyously engaged,” renowned architect Louis Kahn once said. This “joyous engagement,” as architect and clients’ imaginations meet, is a projection into [...]