one example is something i discovered on here a couple of weeks ago, building studio or something from memphis with some house cantilevered over some cliff somewhere. anyway, i had never heard of them but i was pretty taken with them. they were from memphis (i think), which could have something to do with it.

i want to see some really cool stuff that maybe people dont want to be so well known

jwo - you mean Coleman Cokers firm Building Studio. very good stuff.

also check out the early work he did with Sambo Mockbee.

If you are talking non-US i would add East Coast Architects from Durban, South Africa.

In dubai ... I couldn't tell you if there are any good ones .. but I know a lot of them in India ...

I dont know how many of you must have heard of Laurie Baker .. ( Cameron... you must've heard of him atleast... I'm sure.) he's based in South India .. old now.. but comes out with the best low cost architecture.

Laurie on Wiki
philosophy

oops .. sorry ... didn't see the "US" part on the title ...
oh well ....

oh mama can this really be the end
to be stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again...
enough of the "star" business. god, coleman coker has been around for quite awhile and mockbee/coker were stars, whatever the hell that means.

spoaradic,
Laurie has some great stuff but I'm a big fan of Bunker Roy. Also check out Balkrishna Doshi (Dr. Doshi) and Charles Correa.

ok, back on topic. probably an obvious one but I really like the single speed design guys.

jwo, i too feel that there is a little known architect within each of us.

Yeah cameron ... I've met Doshi personally ... ( but it's funny that he's not all that famous considering he was one of corb's favorites) nice chap ... met him at a mud housing workshop.

and correa was probably one of my inspirations to enter architecture.

Villanova Artigas

Not completely obscure but never got the attention he deserved. The architecture school he did is amazing.

Guillermo Garita

http://datumzero.com/