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All Seeing 'Eye' Doghouse



Designers were invited by Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design and Guiding Eyes for the Blind to bring their own observations to the problem of designing a "better" doghouse.

Each designer was provided with an identical set of requirements that served as a departure point for exploring the formal, practical, and conceptual possibilities of the doghouse. A further challenge was added in the request that the houses be designed to appeal to senses other than just visual.


Extensively published, the Doghouse was auctioned to raise funds for Guiding Eyes for the blind.

Paul Haigh, is an English born architect, designer and artist. Following graduation from Leeds Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art he immigrated to the United States. The FineArtAmerica collections are selections of sketch book drawings, watercolors, collages and professional drawings. These works, on paper, are a record of moments, places and experiences. Inclusion was based on a commonality of inherent spatial concepts and drawing technique. Watercolor, acrylic and crayon are the primary media, the additive and reductive techniques they embody, enable works that are multi-layered, translucent and transparent in visual depth. Architectural notions of placement, juxtaposition, figure/ground relationships and implied form...