Together, they have designed many award-winning cultural landmarks, from the Marlboro Music Reich Hall Rehearsal Building & Music Library in Vermont to the Bigelow Chapel at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
But Soranno and Cook had never designed a new house together for themselves.
Then, in 2019, they saw a lake-facing, quarter acre lot for sale in the Lake of the Isles neighborhood, about a five-minute drive to downtown Minneapolis, and bought it for $1.4 million. They spent the next three years and $1.8 million building a 3,000-square-foot, two-bedroom white brick classical style contemporary.
They named their home Analog House—a nod to their decision to design it using the old-school methods of drafting the plans by hand, instead of using computer-generated…
