Publications

Maine Home and Design
The Sun and the Site

Edited by Rebecca Falzano
May 2010

Q: What direction did the homeowners give you, and how did the mental image form?
A: In the case of this house, except to say that they wanted the house to fit in, the homeowners hadn't given me much direction beyond practical issues. They wanted to see what I would come up with. So, I sat down in a plastic chair they had left in the field and started putting myself on the site at different times of the day, seeing how I would like to move around, what I would be looking at, what would be next to what, and where I would be as I moved throughout the day. Read the article.

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors
Easier on the Planet

By Robert Knight, Photographs by Robert Perron
February/March 2010 Issue 108

These five houses (all designed by my firm and built within the last few years) typify the various aspects that people seem to want from their homes these days- including to be easier on the planet while getting more for their money. At the core of these Maine homes is one simple fact: their owners love being in them, and long to come back to them after time away. Read the article.

Portland Magazine - Winterguide 2007
Lucia's Luscious Little Landmarks

by Kyo Bannai

Tired of seeing McMansions invading our woods and fields? Do you love classic, efficient, smart design but fear the price of an architect or loss of control in creating one of the most personal investments you'll make? Read the article.

Capes: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and Building New.

One of our houses is featured in the new book Capes: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and Building New.

From Amazon.com: "Cape Cod homes are a perennial favorite among small and growing families, and they can often benefit from being brought up-to-date. Capes is a combination of practical, attractive designs and proven ideas that include a wealth of style, size, and budget choices for renovating, remodeling, or building a Cape Cod-style home." Click here to see more.

Fine Homebuilding - Houses
A contract that makes everybody happy

by Robert Knight
Summer 2006

In terms of making clients happy, the most important events in a custom residential project are picking a builder and structuring a contract. Read the article.

A House on the Water
Inspirations for Living at the Water's Edge

by Robert Knight
October 2003

Living in a house on the water is an almost universal desire. People are naturally drawn to the water -- both for recreation and relaxation -- and sites on the water sell quickly.

A House on the Water is in bookstores now; click here to order online - see samples here. To read the introduction to the book, click here.

Creating the Not So Big House
Insights and Ideas for the New American Home

by Sarah Susanka
October 2000

Knight Associates is one of several firms featured in this book, which details the creation and thought process behind building small houses.

Click here to go to the Not So Big House Web site.

by Robert Knight
Summer 1997

So we have this wonderful hay field rimmed with old oak trees that slides down onto a peninsula in the Bagaduce River about halfway up the Maine coast. And the house needs to exploit it and live up to it, to be as wonderful as the site so that we enhance this place rather than detract from it.

by Mildred F. Schmertz
August 1998

It is not every day that an architect is asked to design a brand-new Shingle Style house that is to possess an authentic, late-nineteenth-century look combined with twentieth-century livability.

by Robert Knight
February 1994

I live in an old house myself, a 200-year-old farmhouse in Blue Hill, where I have been a practicing architect for seventeen years. And although I didn't design the house from the ground up, my wife and I did decide two years ago to renovate it completely, stripping it right down to the shell, to solve the problems we had lived with for fifteen years.

Better Homes and Gardens
Home Plan Ideas

by Sharon L. Novotne
Winter 1997

The smaller house just starts to become a suit of clothes. ...You're much closer to the skin of it, and you're always looking out. So if there's a lot of glass there, it tends to make the house feel bigger.

Spring 1991

Using this house as an example, it's easy to see how decks earned their place among added-value remodelings. Without its sophisticated deck, this compact cottage on Maine's Penobscot Bay might have seemed a little too compact for a family of five.

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