Period Homes Magazine Table of Contents May 2007

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Vol. 8/no. 3, May 2007

Table of Contents

PROFILE
The Next Chapter
Drawing on the rich architectural traditions of Europe and the American South, Atlanta, GA-based Pak Heydt & Associates has designed more than 250 new residences and renovations over the past 10 years. By Will Holloway

TIME & PLACE
Shingle Style Maine
In the late-19th century, William Ralph Emerson designed a number of Colonial Revival-inspired houses characterized by asymmetrical plans, overhanging gables, flared verge-boards and shingle siding, thus spawning the Shingle Style; many examples of the style still stand on Mount Desert Island, ME. By Dan Cooper

RECENT PROJECTS
Wright Reconstructed
Under the direction of the Martin House Restoration Corporation and Buffalo, NY-based Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects, the original pergola, conservatory and carriage house of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo have been re-created.

Mature Growth
John Milner Architects, of Chadds Ford, PA, designed the most recent expansion and restoration of a 200-year-old stone house in Baltimore County, MD, preserving its original character while accommodating a contemporary program.

Turret Living
From hospital to luxury condominiums – the transformation of 455 Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side was recently completed by New York City-based Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee Architects.

A Townhouse Grows Up
Steven Kratchman Architect, of New York, NY, recently turned a three-story brick building on Manhattan's Upper East Side into a five-story limestone townhouse – an atypical approach in a city dotted with Modernist additions.

BOOK REVIEWS
In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn, by Bryan Clark Green. Reviewed by Richard Sammons

Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, by Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin. Reviewed by Eve M. Kahn.

American Gardens 1890-1930: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest Regions, edited with an introduction by Sam Watters. Reviewed by Daniela Holt Voith

Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker's Life, 1885-1971, by Robin Karson. Reviewed by Lynne Lavelle

THE FORUM
Manufactured Architecture, by Stephen A. Mouzon
Can the assembly line meet the high design standards of contemporary traditional architecture?

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