Hudson Valley, NY
Baxter Projects is an award-winning architecture studio dedicated to building healthy sustainable low-carbon spaces and structures. Founded in 2014 by Kevin Baxter, we are based in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley.
Whether it’s a new home, a renovation/new addition, or a complex multi-use structure, our experience and skills in the pursuit of intelligent, artful design allow us to execute meaningful projects of any scale that are as aspirational as they are practical and distinctly rooted in place.
With each new client/project, we bring a body of knowledge that includes engineering, art, and industrial design, to learn and grow as we further a new path in modern living and sustainability.
Kevin Baxter, Architect
Kevin Baxter is the founder and principal of Baxter Projects.
For 25 years, Kevin has worked on numerous residential and commercial projects that are recognized for their history, integration into land and topography, their vibrant interpretations of modernism and utility, and the Passive House and carbon sequestering techniques employed to conserve energy.
Prior to founding Baxter Projects, Kevin was a project architect at some of the world’s most prestigious firms and visionaries, including Pei/Cobb/Freed, Gaetano Pesce and Ennead Architects, where he led a team for the award-winning renovation and modernization of the Public Theater. Kevin also led the adaptive reuse of the Cincinnati Music Hall, built in 1878, into a twenty-first century multi-purpose concert hall.
Kevin is a educator and adjunct professor of architecure at the New York Institure of Technology and has been an invited architecture critic at the City College of New York, Pratt University, New York Institute of Technology, the Art Institute of New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Clemson University, and the University of Florida.
Kevin is a registered architect in New York State, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and a United States Green Building Council LEED Green Associate.
Future Cottage
Future Cottage is an experimental 650sf straw panel house in Columbia County, New York. Built of dense-packed prefabricated structural straw panels, this small-scale house absorbs carbon and works in harmony with the surrounding environment.
As a response both to soaring home square footage and extreme climate shifts, we created Future Cottage as an accessible and imaginative refuge to explore a more efficient and flexible way to build.
Future Cottage offers an adaptable dwelling that combines prefabrication with customization for any site, region or climate. Ultimately, our hope is that this smaller modern home might inspire others to consider smaller more efficient homes like Future Cottage and in turn will realize the limitless possibilities of smaller living.