Zoetic1: your portal to Zoetic Architecture and Arts, and portfolio of Michael Hawker
Zoetic1: your portal to Zoetic Architecture and Arts, and portfolio of Michael Hawker
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Zoetic Architecture & Design, L.L.C. is a comprehensive and full service design firm practicing organic architecture. Founded in 2003 by a Taliesin architect, Michael Hawker, the firm's experience and training is rooted by the rich philosophies of Frank Lloyd Wright and Gunnar Birkerts, a blend of both American and European organic traditions.
Unique and specialized.
Zoetic Architecture & Design, L.L.C. offers unique, sensitive, and integrated solutions that creatively respond to, and celebrate, the particular needs of the customer and the particular characteristics of the project site. Inspired by Ideas, our designs celebrate "life." Some term it "Natural Architecture" or "Organic Architecture" but we have named it "Zoetic Architecture" or simply "an architecture for life."
Soulful designs with sensibility.
The beginnings were 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri. From 2010-2023, the Zoetic companies were located in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2023, a cross-country relocation brought Zoetic back to the midwest, to southwest Michigan. Our commitment is providing high quality and tailored solutions of enduring value to our customers anywhere in the world and regardless of scale or complexity — from simple renovations to new buildings.
No project too small, no client too far.
...is to form a partnership relationship with you, to follow the creative process of discovery, and endeavor together to shape the design of your dream. You have our highest energy and best talent for guiding you through the process of design and construction.
Respect for the client.
"Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea. A good idea never dies and
never ceases changing its form of life."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Zoetic Architecture & Design specializes in Residential projects of all types: from remodels to new single-family homes, decks to stained glass panels. Approximately 75% of all our work is residential in nature.
Zoetic has even designed a mailbox post!
Zoetic is sought out by clients who looking for something unique and not in a plan book. Clients seek the experience and unique heritage for offering them something special.
Often, customers have complex programs - ones that other architects simply refuse to do - and it is Zoetic that finds the best solution.
Zoetic Architecture & Design also works on non-residential projects for a variety of clientele. Approximately 25% of our work falls in this category, and many clients started with us designing for their home.
Projects range from office remodels to additions, from terraces and ADA ramps to full-site master planning.
Zoetic even designed a glass floor for a restaurant with a view to their wine cellar!
"Imagination is the beginning of creation.
You imagine what you desire,
you will what you imagine, and at last,
you create what you will."
George Bernard Shaw
Click on each photograph for a brief description.
A cabin retreat concept for a project in the Uintah mountains, Utah. An exposed site facing north with view down to the valley below. Stone from the site. Concrete "mainenance-free" structure.
STRIVE TO CREATE a work of spiritual vitality and fulfillment, beautiful structures that suit its environment, serves the purposes of life, and raises the spirits of the occupants. By using "poetics", an appropriate design can respond to the psychological and emotional needs of the users. In all, a building's natural and unique expression of purpose and meaning gives it "character."
Inspired by IDEAS,
our designs celebrate LIFE.
Zoetic Architecture, thus, is
an "Architecture for Life",
or "Life Architecture."
To be the global leader in Zoetic architecture and design by offering SUPERIOR SERVICE to our customers, and emphasizing EXCEPTIONAL CRAFT and PERSONAL CARE during all project phases.
Solutions are tailored to the SPECIFIC needs of the customer, and respond to the PARTICULAR characteristics of the project site.
...defies absolute definition because of the underlying intuitive and creative process behind every design solution...it is a voyage of discovery.
...is inspired by a holistic idea. Every form is developed out of its relation to the whole - thus, part and whole create each other to form an organic unity.
...is appropriate when it relates to the nature of and is in scale with human beings. Designs fulfilling real human needs form a truly living architecture and express the spirit of the activity within.
...is appropriate to place when it is in ecological and aesthetic harmony with its natural or built environment. It belongs to the site.
...expresses structural and spatial continuity. Structural expression reinforces the character and integrity of the design. Spatial continuity is freedom between indoor and outdoor space, connecting the occupants to the environment.
...employs the natural and appropriate use of "native" materials. This relates the design to its environment (natural or man-made) and serves to give warmth to rooms, human scale to buildings, and definition to space as light and shadows cast patterns across them.
...uses available materials clearly and honestly, employs available construction techniques, and marries the past (the place) with the future (the idea). It is beautiful and honest.
"If you are looking for a cookie-cutter solution, call another firm."
"We DO NOT pull out plans from a file of previous projects and present it as your 'custom' design. Never."
8788 North 27th Street, Richland, Michigan 49083, United States
By appointment only.
Please call us at 314-713-5034 to book an appointment.