This house is a variation on the theme of integrating the interior with the external landscape. Numerous rooms are centered upon specific exterior landscaped gardens. Each features glass walls that open upon a garden surrounded by a grass berm . The garden plane lies just below the window sill which is about the height of the countertops. Suspended brick walls and trellises provide boundaries for two of the bedroom gardens. The gardens become an integral part of the rooms to which they are attached. Built-in cabinets surround the dining and breakfast rooms.

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Ames Guyton is a licensed architect in the state of Florida (AR8309) and is registered with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). He has a Master's Degree from Columbia University, and has over thirty years experience as an architect, having worked for some of America's most distinguished firms, including Marcel Breuer, one of the founders of Modern architecture. He has toured Europe many times and has spent six months in the Orient. He has photographed many of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings as well. 

Address: 1015 Marvone Lane , Jacksonville, Florida, 32266        

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