Triangle Modernist Houses

Compiled by George Smart, Jr.                                                          

ELLEN L. WEINSTEIN, AIA

Ellen Weinstein is a partner with Dail Dixon in Dixon Weinstein Architects in Carrboro, North Carolina. The firm has received numerous design awards, been published in local, regional and national press and in 2003 received the North Carolina AIA Firm Award. A native of New York City, Ellen earned a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Ohio State University and Master of Architecture from NC State in 1987. Ellen regularly teaches design studios at NC State and has also offered a short-course on small houses at Duke University. Active in the AIA, Ellen is currently President of the Triangle AIA.  In 1999, she received the highest design honor for mid-career North Carolina architects, the Kamphoefner Prize.

1992 - with Dail Dixon, the Bennett Residence, Apex.  Won an AIANC Merit Award.

1995 - The Ruth Residence, Burlington NC.

Year unknown - The Clotfelter Residence, 6 Powderhill Place, Durham.

Year unknown - The House at Wood's Edge, Burlington NC.  3900 heated sf, 1200 sf unheated.  Cost:  $175-$200 per sf.  Construction by BRW of Chapel Hill.  Swanson and Associates were the landscape architects.   Photos by James West.

Year unknown - The Meadow House, Chatham County.  Photos by James West.