Main entry:

Healy, Brian (Architect)

Title & Author:

Commonplaces : thinking about an American architecture / Brian Healy ; foreword by Robert McCarter.

Publication:

San Raphael, CA : ORO Editions ; New York : Distribution in North America, Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.

Description:

110 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 25 cm

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

Summary:

"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

ISBN:

9780979380174
0979380170

Subject:

Healy, Brian (Architect)
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture United States History 21st century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
United States.

Form/genre:

Writings.
History.

Added entries:

McCarter, Robert, 1955-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259680
Call No.: NA44.H434.A35 2008
Status: Available