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Enjoy viewing our modern home plans. Please take your time to see all our modern home plans. Make sure your view the floor plans and specs on all houses. Each home also has a button (“more”) that will lead your to additional information on each modern home plan.

All our contemporary modern homes are designed and drawn in house. We take great pride in all our contemporary designs.

We hope you find our selection of ultra modern home plans as cool as us. Do not hesitate to give us a call or send us an email for any questions or ideas you might have.

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Dialect’s Musings! To understand our approach to modern house plans, our ideas about a contemporary home and our modern art, please read our featured articles from our rss feed “dialect’s musings ”:

3/20/09: Construction Using Modern Home Plans!

A great deterrent for many future home owners and builders to purchase modern home plans is the prevailing fear of additional costs. Builders and General Contractors are used to a standard type of designs that allows them to understand home plans quickly, know their costs and charge accordingly. Unknowns or custom details can raise a red flag and cause contractors to estimate a higher price, if at all, just to cover unknown costs.

In the design of our modern home plans we strive to create contemporary settings with standard building methods. Our own work as general contractors has developed for us a helpful understanding of how new ideas can be translated into builder friendly details. The most beautiful set of modern home plans are rendered useless if it they cannot be used for construction.

It is true that we enjoy stretching the envelope as far as the choice of modern materials and structural methods are concerned. However, we make use of them in areas absolutely vital to the original design intent. In addition, we shape and reshape initial innovative ideas to useful and easily constructed details through the process of design development. It allows us to create modern home plans that are buildable and affordable.

Many of the green and sustainable aspects can also be cost-effective. They do not have to cause unnecessary headaches for you builder. It is often a question of simply using standard building materials and methods in specific ways, rather than using unknown building supplies. We are able to offer this detail oriented approach of quality control by having our lead designers involved with our modern home plans from initial concept, through design development and the creation of the actual construction plans. In local projects they are also involved in the construction process itself.

It is our belief that we can create cutting-edge modern home plans for you that are affordable to build. Modernity does not have to be expensive.

Please browse our selection of modern home plans and see for yourself.

Please browse our selection: modern home plans T.1, modern home plans K.1, modern home plans B.1, modern home plans P.1, your modern home plans

3/18/09: The Art of Modern House Plans!

We draw great inspiration in the design of our modern house plans from our involvement in contemporary art.

Too often architecture and the building industry find themselves reduced to a process of piling up materials and mitigating restrictions and building codes. We believe, however, that we are involved in the creation of spaces and built environments that bring riches to your daily life. We spend the majority of our lives within our manmade surroundings. And we draw great strength from our private and public settings. We need to pay great attention to the quality of those spaces. A quality that deals with warmth, cozy protection, with a sense of timeless comfort, and with the yearning for memories lived. It is a quality that comes from meeting habits and the engagements of life. It works with your senses; tactile, visual and sound.

To meet these strong needs we work on and stay innovative in the selection of materials, their textures and sensual strength. We incorporate the play of light into our modern house plans, to let light and shadows create patterns, where warmth is needed, and keep direct sunlight out, where glare needs to be reduced. We take a close look at circulation patterns and proximity of certain areas of use. We fine-tune spatial qualities, the proportions of spaces. We incorporate structural elements of the building into these considerations to have exposed beams or posts help shape these environments appropriately.

To bring these qualities to our modern house plans, we consider our work that of an art. We have to start with a specific set of skills and then use it to create a lived piece of art that transcends practicalities and reaches a very real felt importance in the lives of our customers. To do so we learn from the great contemporary art that surrounds us and we are involved with. Surprisingly, the professional degrees of architecture in the US are called Bachelor of Art in Architecture. All licensed architect have acquired that degree. And yet, the art seems to be dropped too often and too quickly in the work and endeavors we found ourselves in.

We certainly hope we serve you well with our approach and are creating true pieces of art in the selection of modern house plans we offer. Have a look!

Please browse our selection: modern home plans T.1, modern home plans K.1, modern home plans B.1, modern home plans P.1, your modern home plans

Welcome to Dialect Design’s modern house plans. At Dialect Design we believe that modernity must be more than skin deep. We design with the focus on quality.

When viewing our modern and contemporary home plans look for • flexible zones that adapt to different life styles • semi-translucent walls that transform a garage into a Japanese lantern • sliding partitions • juxtaposing spaces • separate entries and autonomous kitchenettes • roof terraces that offer views of a city skyline or a countryside • spaces that blur the line between the inside to the outside.

If you have the need for specific qualities that you miss in our European style house plans, please visit our “commission a design” page or drop us a line.