SOUTHERN comfort
HEN CLIENTS in Louisiana wanted to downsize, moving to a home on a bayou near where they’d always resided, architectural designer Terry Pylant and his team did their homework. “As precedent for the design, we studied the local vernacular,” says Pylant, referring in particular to the region’s French Creole cottages and traditional Acadian homes. “Our clients were well versed in the language of the local architecture, and wanted their new home to
