""Even though it's bold, it doesn't shout at you,"" David Salmela says of the silvery house he designed for a woodsy setting in Deephaven, Minnesota. ""It's not a barking dog. It's a resting, very gentle animal."" The American Institute of Architects, conferring its 2008 Housing Award, was more direct: the house was, in the words of the jury, ""brilliantly designed."" The Streeter house is just one of fifty-one notable projects by Minnesota architect Salmela featured in ""The Invisible Element of Place."". Thomas Fisher explores both the beauty and the practicality of Salmela's award-winning d