Sagaponac Houses

Sagaponac Houses is a new residential community of 34 homes on a 100-acre wooded property. It is located in the coastal village of Hamptons on Long Island in Sagaponack (the “k” was dropped from the project name), New York. The designs of the 34 houses involved 34 renowned international architects.
The entire project was designed by Harry Joe Brown Jr. (known as Coco), president of the international investment company "Brown Companies" in Manhattan. However, Brown considers himself more of an artist than an investment manager. He makes films, writes theatrical scripts, directs Off-Broadway plays, and in recent years has engaged in issues of modern approaches to housing construction and residential communities.
The initial idea to create a similar community emerged for Brown in the mid-1970s when he owned large properties in Beverly Hills. Unfortunately, he encountered misunderstandings with neighboring property owners, lost interest in continuing his project, and sold the land.
Brown's goal was to create an “anti-track,” where each house has its own expression and vision. He wanted to give new residential community a reputation as a focal point of modern architecture.
In the Sagaponac Houses project, Brown invited his friend, New York architect Richard Meier, to collaborate. Richard Meier defined the main urban concept of the community and selected 34 international architects and architectural firms to design the 34 houses, from the youngest Linda Roy (38) to Philip Johnson (98).
The senior group consists of well-known architects such as Michael Graves, Steven Holl, Richard Gluckman, Eric Owen Moss, Craig Hodgetts & Hsin Ming Fung, Richard Rogers, and Richard Meier, who also designed one of the houses.
Among the younger architects and architectural firms are Marvan Al-Sayed, Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto, Stehen Banner, Hariri & Hariri, Annabelle Selldorf. For many of these younger architects, it will be their first opportunity to build a standalone residential house.
Richard Meier offered each architect a parcel in such a way that neighboring buildings could “communicate” with each other.
The houses in Sagaponac will be relatively small, ranging from 2100 to 4800 ft2 with parcels from 1 to 2.7 acres. The intention was to create houses with an acceptable budget that would be accessible not only to the wealthy. The amounts for which the houses will be sold will range from 1-3 million dollars.
Construction of the first group of houses began in 2001, and currently, six houses are under construction: Hariri & Hariri, Henry Cobb, Annabelle Selldorf, Shigeru Ban & Dean Maltz, Stan Allen, and Samuel Mockbee.