Stone built
Subtitle: contemporary American houses
By: Lee Goff ; introduction by Charles Gwathmey.
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Stone houses -- United States -- Pictorial works; Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: This volume presents twenty-seven contemporary residences, spanning the entire stylistic spectrum and thoroughly documented with color photography. The United States has always had a great number of stone houses, subject to regional and stylistic variations, as author Lee Goff writes in her comprehensive introduction. That history and variety are alive today, as houses of stone continue to appear in myriad guises - classical, modern, vernacular, postmodern - throughout the country.

In fact, Goff concludes that a new renaissance of stone houses is at hand.

The exceptional residences in this book, by such renowned architects as Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, Will Bruder, 1100 Architect, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Lake/Flato, and Kohn Pedersen Fox, provide ample evidence of this renaissance. Goff discusses with each architect the design of each house, focusing on the decision to use stone, the building process, and other related choices, while color photographs illustrate both exteriors and interiors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-272)