New Hudson Valley Houses. View the Recent Exhibition.

September 8, 2025

New Hudson Valley Houses Exhibition was open in The Archive Gallery

New Hudson Valley Houses
SAA/Stan Allen Architect, Garrick Ambrose, Steven Holl Architects, Toshiko Mori, MOS
September 7, 2025 – March 2026

New Hudson Valley Houses featured ten recently designed homes by five architects, within three hours of New York City. The works were presented solely through models and drawings (no photos), inviting viewers into the design process. The houses, at different stages of design and each unique to their situation, share four aspirations.

1. Maximum Preservation of landscape
On large rural sites these houses aspire to guard and preserve the natural landscapes of the Hudson Valley in the spirit of the organization Scenic Hudson.

2. Individuation of expression
The possibility of independent experimental actions, expressive of freedom of individual
thought, are counter to the repetitive dictates of consumer culture.

3. Material / Detail / Scale
Often underestimated, domestic architecture at this scale is a critical platform for experimenting with the core principles of architecture: light, proportion, material detailing, and scale.

4. Ecological architecture embedded in landscape
The Hudson Valley’s landscape—shaped by ancient glaciers and varied in its geography—offers a testing ground for new and experimental relationships between architecture and nature. Houses aspire to be free of fossil fuel, deploying varying strategies of solar, geothermal, and green roofs respectively.