Alter Architects

10/03/2026

Our clients' home in Monroe NC can now be yours. Check it out.

This 3344 square feet Single Family home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. It is located at 101 S Westover Dr , Monroe, NC.

09/09/2026

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Ep 209: Understanding Residential Contracts breaks down five ways architects charge for residential work, along with the tradeoffs of each.

07/24/2026

Congratulations to our good friend, Toby, at Wittehaus. He builds blissful buildings! The Matsumoto prize is a very high honor.

07/24/2026

MCM Courtyard house

Mid Century Modern House of the Week.

Welcome to Design X 1178, a 2,560 sq. ft. mid-century modern home featuring
four bedrooms, two baths, a family room with a snack bar, and two fireplaces!

Obsessed:
Dramatic folded plate roof
Interior flower court
Quiet terrace

07/02/2026

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The Newbury-Walden House at 1401 Briar Creek Road, Charlotte, was the home of architect Edward Newbury and banker Robert Walden. The house was built in 1951 and was designed by Newbury.

After becoming friends with author Carson McCullers, the couple hosted McCullers in 1954. A biography of McCullers described the Newbury-Walden House:

"Newberry (sic), an architect, has designed and built the new house they were in, and Carson was intrigued by it even before she saw it. She was afraid to see it—'it couldn’t be true,' she told them. It was almost a one-room house, large and sprawling, with a huge living room and stone fireplace, a bedroom alcove and library—which was not a separate room, but a part of the living room—a kitchen and eating area off in another alcove, and finally, the only single room with a separate door on it, the bathroom.

Radiant heat came up from slate floors to heat the house, an engineering feat that Carson found fascinating. When the house was first described to her, she decided almost on the spot that the young protagonist in her play, The Square Root of Wonderful, would be an architect and that the house he would design would have many of the characteristics that Newberry’s (sic) house had."

The Newbury-Walden House was placed on the Historic Landmarks Commission's Study List of Prospective Historic Landmarks in 2022 and Historic Landmarks staff continues to research this property.

For more on the Newbury-Walden House: https://meck.co/3uhgs40

03/16/2026

Construction progress at our MCM home remodel and addition in Mint Hill, NC.

11/06/2025

Mad About Modern 2025 is this Saturday, with a special kickoff event Friday night with .modernism . Tickets and information at the Charlotte Museum of History’s website.

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11/02/2025

Mad About Modern 2025 is next weekend. Get your tickets now at website. Featuring 3 homes this year, including our remodel & addition of this MCM home.

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