Commonplaces
Subtitle: thinking about an American architecture
By: Brian Healy ; foreword by Robert McCarter
Contributors: McCarter, Robert, 1955-
Publisher: ORO Editions; Distribution in North America, Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Raphael, CA; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780979380174
Subjects: Architecture; History; Histoire
Description: "As part of this residency at Amherst College, Brian Healy was asked to prepare an exhibition and lecture placing his work within the context of contemporary American architecture. This book collects that work in essays, observations, drawings, paintings and photographs spanning the last 20 years, with projects in a dozen states ranging from the Appalachian hills to the vineyards of Northern California; from the Catskills in New York to the west side of Chicago; from downtown Boston to the beach communities along the central coast of New Jersey."--Jacket
Notes: "This book presents a collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, and observations tracking over twenty years of practice in a dozen states ranging from the small cities of New England and Southern California, to the open fields of Northern California and the New York Catskills, to the sidewalks and alleys of Boston and Atlantic City, to the public spaces of western North Carolina's Appalachian Hills and Chicago Near West Side."--Preliminary page

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Common sense: toward an architecture both poetic and practical / Robert McCarter; title: Introduction; title: Open roads; title: Small lodge, Saint Helena, California; title: Tower at Onteora, Tannerville, New York; title: Rural pool hall, Boone, North Carolina; title: Vineyard residence, Saint Helena, California; title: Empty sidewalks; title: Beach house, Loveladies, New Jersey with Michael Ryan; title: Housing prototypes, Atlantic City, New Jersey; title: Summer compound, Barnegat Light, New Jersey with Michael Ryan; title: Visitors' center, Buffalo, New York; title: Big rooms; title: Pool house, Gradyville, Pennsylvania; title: Mixed-income housing, Chicago, Illinois; title: Apartment building, Chicago, Illinois; title: Children's chapel, Brookline, Massachusetts; title: Recital hall, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; title: Small cities; title: Parking garage, Boston, Massachusetts; title: Arts center, Hendersonville, North Carolina; title: Civic center, Lake Elsinore, California; title: Urban greenway, Boston, Massachusetts.