Miami Beach, FL | Miami, FL | Lauderdale, Tasmania
Also known as: stevemouzon
Steve Mouzon is a principal of the New Urban Guild in Miami. The Guild was instrumental in the creation of the Katrina Cottages concept, and continues to foster the movement, including sponsoring the website (www.katrinacottages.com.) Steves Katrina Cottage VIII was awarded a Charter Award by the Congress for the New Urbanism. The Guild Foundation is the non-profit educational arm of the Guild it sponsors a number of workshops, tours, and seminars that fill several of the gaps that previously existed between theory and practice. It also sponsors the Guild Tool Foundry. Steve is also a principal of Mouzon Design, which produces a number of town-building tools and services. His house plans have been featured repeatedly as Home of the Month in Southern Living, Coastal Living, and Cottage Living. Steve is Town Architect at several new hamlets, villages and neighborhoods around the country, using a unique method that communicates principles, not just particulars. Mouzon Designs Premium Tools Collection contains robust new place-making tools. A Living Tradition is a framework for a new type of pattern book that is principle-based instead of taste-based, and therefore contributes to the creation of new living traditions. Steve has authored or contributed to a number of publications in recent years, including Biltmore Estate Homes (Southern Living), Architectural Elements Traditional Construction Details (McGraw-Hill), Traditional Construction Details (McGraw-Hill), Traditional Construction Patterns (McGraw-Hill), Gulf Coast Emergency House Plans, A Living Tradition Architecture of the Central Gulf Coast, and the award-winning A Living Tradition Architecture of the Bahamas. Steve is also continuing to shoot new editions of his Catalog of the Most-Loved Places. The Catalog typically includes every structure built before about in various historic towns or districts. He lectures frequently across the country and abroad. Specialties Sustainability, green building, living traditions, traditional architecture, charrettes, new urbanism, traditional neighborhood developments, traditional neighborhood design, katrina cottage
