We are featured on the cover of Florida Green Building magazine.  From the article: "Six years ago architect Terry Green took a trip to Bali, and was so inspired by the architecture, he incorporated Balinese design concepts into a home he built on By Shore Road, in Sarasota. This 3,600-square-foot home stands out for both its beauty and energy-efficiency."    Click Here to see the rest of the feature article.

By Harold Bubil

STAFF PHOTO / ROB MATTSON

Architect Terry Green in his green spec house on Bay Shore Road in Sarasota.

Back in 1969, when Terry Green was still cleaning up from the “muddy mess” he encountered at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, he was becoming interested in the ecology.

Around that time, he was reading about counterculture lifestyle practices in the Whole Earth Catalog. And, while an architecture student at the University of Florida, he wrote his thesis on self-sustainable community design.

So it follows, especially given his surname, that he has built a green house in Sarasota’s Museum District, on Bay Shore Road. Built on speculation, the 3,600-square-foot house recently won several awards for its design.

“‘Green’ is not that new of a thing for me,” said the architect. “I did a solar-passive home in 1980 in North Carolina. I was using radiant barriers in the 1980s in houses in Sarasota. My thesis in college was on an alternative-lifestyle community. We didn’t use the word ‘green’ then, but it was a project that was self-sustainable, with rammed-earth walls and geodesic domes, that kind of thing.”