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Haiku
Houses has been in business for more than 45 years and has custom
designed houses for clients throughout United States, including
Hawaii. Haiku Houses have provided homes for clients in Great
Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean. Haiku Houses
are adaptable to any building site regardless of the slope of the
site and are suitable for all climates.
Reminiscent of
16th century Japanese Country Houses, award-winning Haiku Houses
use pole-and-beam architecture and are custom crafted from the
finest woods.
The Haiku Houses depicted in our catalog
are the "original" modern design of these Japanese
Country Houses, and they are by far the highest quality
custom-crafted wood houses available anywhere in the
world.
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. The word
haiku means each poem contains seventeen syllables
frequently in the order of five syllables then seven then five
again. A predominant theme of haiku poetry is the natural world
and the relationship and interaction between nature and
humankind.
Haiku poets emphasize that form and
function are one. This philosophy was adopted by Frank Lloyd
Wright as his credo; it was the impulse behind his philosophy of
design and architecture. The architecture of the Greene brothers
at the turn of the century was heavily influenced by such
architecture from Japan. In fact, Haiku Houses have many of the
features of the Ultimate Bungalows designed by Greene and
Greene.
The owners of a Haiku House understand that
they have bought the simple elegance and beauty that is
unavailable in any other architecture. They appreciate that
while in some instances they may have originally invested more
for their Haiku House than they may have for an ordinary "sticks
and bricks" house, the Haiku House is priceless in its
inherent peace, tranquility and harmony. Also in many cases this
is the most cost effective method of building on complex
property.
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