RBA featured in Dwell magazine
Some would call it a perfect ten. Others just seem to keep calling. After a decade of being involved in some of the most interesting transformative architecture in Dayton, Rogero Buckman Architects work is featured in Dwell magazine’s Oct/Nov issue. “Suburban Flight” features the modern home they designed for local architecture writer Peter Bracher and his wife Joan, in the Fairgrounds neighborhood.
It’s been a great year for partners Mary Rogero and Barry Buckman, who have been changing the architectural landscape of Dayton. They are one of three regional firms chosen to collaborate with master architect Stanley Tigerman on the “innovation initiative” complex and campus centered around the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Westcott home in Springfield, they are transforming the old Dayton Towers apartments into the hip new Metropolitan condos and have been awarded contracts for the Phoenix project, an unnamed Dayton Public School and the Roosevelt Center Renaissance project, all while finishing the build-out on the Cooper Lofts condo’s downtown.
Over the past ten years Daytonians have watched them; transform an abandoned Shell Station at E. Fifth and Wayne into the Dublin Pub, create the sculptures along Riverscape that pay tribute to the great inventions from Dayton and turn six warehouses into The Cannery that has become the local version of Melrose Place.
While the Bracher home was the feature of the Dwell article, Rogero Buckman were also the architects on the “Genesis Project;” a joint effort by Miami Valley Hospital, the University of Dayton and Citywide Development to rebuild the Fairgrounds neighborhood. There is currently a waiting list for the new model homes.
Before you go run out and buy a copy of Dwell, be aware, the magazine tends to dwell on the idea that the area is better known for drug deals instead of dashing design. We can only assume the writer spent too much time at the hospital pharmacy.
We have a pdf of the article on our site here.