Before we can talk about the burgeoning new architectural style of the Mountain West, or even California’s crisp-but-casual influence on it – we must first take a trip across the globe to Barcelona, Spain. There, says Woodhouse, The Timber Frame Company architect Diana Allen, is an iconic example of the power of clean lines and modern design: the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe.
A fusion of glass and sleek slabs of stone, it can feel geographically and aesthetically distant from the rustic, slope-side homes of the U.S. Mountain West, where log and timber structures are mosaics of local stone, wood and patinated metals.
But it is, in fact, the iconic designs like the Barcelona Pavilion, whose modern strokes informed the cool and contemporary lines found across the West Coast and
