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Charles Gregory Woods, AIA/NCARB, is an
award-winning Registered Architect and the author of four
architecture books (six including revised editions). His
designs have been shown in more than fifty respected
magazines and journals. He has been a leading expert in
Earth-Sheltered and Passive-Solar Design for more than
twenty years.
Born in
Chicago in 1953 of largely Polish (but also Russian and
German) Catholic ancestry, Charles G. Woods is an
internationally noted Registered Architect/PA and a member
of the American Institute of Architects. He is a longtime
specialist in energy-efficient, environmental and
low-maintenance housing. He has lectured on architecture
for television and radio. He has also taught college
philosophy. He apprenticed for more than ten years under
two direct students of Frank Lloyd Wright, and he has a
B.A. degree in comparative religion (with a minor in
architecture) and a M.A. degree in comparative religious
philosophy. He is currently writing his doctoral
dissertation in philosophy on the Dutch philosopher
Spinoza. He has also written an (as yet) unpublished work
on the history of philosophy. As with Wright, Mies, and
Le Corbusier, Woods is largely self-trained and has
designed more than 350 houses and buildings -- including
sacred buildings, which are the subject of his next book.
In addition to being an architect, Woods has completed
over 1,500 works of art in various media ranging from
digital art to drawings, oils and acrylics.
Woods’
hobbies are reading the classics, listening to classical
music, viewing classic movies, playing chess and tennis
and practicing karate and tai chi. He is married to
author Julie Kettle Gundlach and lives in the Pocono
Mountains of Pennsylvania in an earth-sheltered house of
his own design. He is interested in practicing what he
calls “Natural Architecture” with like-minded clients.
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