Building Dreams

Founded in 1979, JLF Architects had humble beginnings—an origin story of resourcefulness and a pitch-perfect sense of place … The firm’s first project was a cabin. And their initial challenge? To match a new-build cabin to the existing log structures on the ranch, which had been homesteaded nearly a century earlier. Seeing beyond the dilapidation and ruin, the team took inspiration and materials from those original structures to bridge the gap between past and future. In Foundations, a book about the breadth and depth of JLF’s work, an explanation of that first project reads, ‘Reclaiming the wood and rebuilding it into a new form kindled a movement in American architecture.’