Joy

Rick Joy’s use of form and material are very convincing; he makes it clear that he is not the type of architect who comes into a project to create a sculptural piece that completely ignores context. One can really see that in the Woodstock House, Joy breaks from his usual form to respond to the location and vernacular of Vermont. He swallows his modernist pride by including a gable roof, but gives the traditional form a fresh look by forgoing eaves. This form combined with the local stone gives the house a subtlety unique  presence among the Vermont landscape.

Joy’s fundamental basics are what inform the subtle moves he makes in his designs and these moves give his buildings an experiential elegance that is not easily achieved. He makes deliberate moves to respect each projects’ context and I think one can see and feel that respect in his designs.