Pick up a copy of Lake/Flato Houses: Embracing the Landscape, a 300-page photography book showing some of the group’s spectacular environmentally friendly home designs, and it’s easy to sigh and say, ...

Lake-Flato’s Porch Houses consist of factory-constructed modular living and sleeping pods (finishes range from cedar to corrugated metal) that can be erected just about anywhere, in a variety of ...

The terms "high-end home design" and "prefabrication" don't often go together, but Lake Flato Architects is trying the mix with a modular house. Architect-designed prefab homes are a relative rarity ...

One of the best-known architectural firms in San Antonio started modestly, building unassuming ranch houses. David Lake and Ted Flato met during apprenticeships in the early 1980s at the architecture ...

Architecture is about the design of buildings, but as architects at the renowned Lake Flato firm know, buildings always come with a sense of place. The staff of the firm works from offices in Austin ...

SAN ANTONIO — The adage in real estate is location, location, location. With Lake | Flato, the award-winning San Antonio architecture firm, it's landscape, landscape, landscape. “We look ...

Omnipresent even before the coronavirus crisis took hold, the term “wellness”, when applied to real estate, is wildly nebulous, tricky-to-define, and more often than not, prone to well-washing, a GOOP ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. The great American architect Louis Kahn would ask his ...

Shingle-like panels made of weathering steel clad the pyramidal forms at the River Bend Residence, a project designed by Texan studio Lake Flato Architects to "sit lightly upon the land". Located in a ...

A lot of 3D-printed architecture is focused on creating relatively simple and utilitarian structures that look functional but show little thought paid to aesthetics. However, leading 3D printing firm ...

Lake Flato Architects has created a library with a porch-like scheme, featuring mass-timber elements and a designated space ...

The beauty of Mother Nature commands center stage in Ascaya’s fourth completed Inspiration home. “There aren’t a lot of homes that look like this in the valley,” Ascaya sales manager Darin Marques ...