America’s Top Architects: A Prairie House By Wisconsin’s Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Firm Name: Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Principal: Brian Johnsen, Sebastian Schmaling
Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Accolades: Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Top 200 Residential Architects,” 2025; Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Best-in-State Residential Architects,” 2025
House Name: Kettle Moraine House
Location: Campbellsport, Wisconsin
Site Specifics: More than 50 acres of restored native prairie
Area & Layout: 3,342 square feet, 3 BR, 3 BA
Architectural Photographer: John J. Macaulay
wenty thousand years ago, glaciers plowed through Eastern Wisconsin, forming a tapestry of hills, ridges and depressions known as the Kettle Moraine. Asked to design a house on a parcel of prairie land in the area, architect Sebastian Schmaling took his cue from nature, dividing the home into three parallel strips that echo the strands of earth........
