Jon is one of the small handful of architects who have chosen to go beyond just drawing and talking to actually executing the design and personally molding the vision into reality. You don’t commission any other work of art to be designed by one person and then painted by another; you want the artist to be responsible for every stroke of the brush. Stylistically, the Monsons’ have also been influenced by the camps of the Adirondacks and the cottages of Nantucket, where simple architectural forms are often the most welcoming, characterful, and timeless of all. Believing in being responsible with one’s resources, Landschute was a “green” builder long before the word was even coined and politicized. Their 2010 Lakeview project, as highlighted in this section, shows you how to recycle not just materials, but character as well.