Vo. 8/no. 5, September 2007

Table of Contents

PROFILE
Informal Logic
Strong client relationships have helped Birmingham, AL-based Dungan Nequette Architects build an impressive portfolio of custom residential, multi-family, mixed-use and planning projects throughout the Southeast. By Will Holloway

FEATURE
New Urbanism’s Holy Grail
The Congress for the New Urbanism has affordability and diversity as principles in its charter. Why is it, then, that so many New Urbanist developments become enclaves for the wealthy? By Emily Talen

RECENT PROJECTS
The Best of Both Worlds
Historical Concepts’ design of a 5,500-sq.ft. house on Spring Island, SC, combines the formal Greek Revival style with informal Low County vernacular traditions.

Production Design
The Edenville production house is one of eight floor-plan types designed by Donald Powers Architects for the Traditional Neighborhood Development of Warwick Grove in Warwick, NY.

Ad Hoc Georgian Revival
A 9,000-sq.ft. brick residence in Charlotte, NC, designed by Grenfell Architecture, PLLC, is an unusual marriage of French Norman and Georgian Revival styles.

Good as Old
John Milner Architects’ design of a 6,000-sq.ft. residence along Philadelphia’s Main Line draws on 19th-century French precedents and the architecture of local estates constructed at the turn of the 20th century.

Open Ended
A 2,800-sq.ft. residence in Columbia County, NY, designed by Kate Johns, AIA, balances local Greek Revival and Federal traditions with an open, contemporary plan.

Hudson Valley Stronghold
A residence overlooking the Hudson River in Cold Harbor, NY, designed by Zivkovic Connolly Architects, uses Irish Palladian precedents to create a sense of solidity and mass.

BOOK REVIEWS
Classical Swedish Architecture and Interiors: 1650-1840, by Johan Cederlund. Reviewed by Eve M. Kahn

Prefabulous: The House of Your Dreams Delivered Fresh from the Factory, by Sheri Koones. Reviewed by Stephen A. Mouzon

Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice, by Jill Grant. Reviewed by Hadiya Strasberg

THE FORUM
Tradition and Sustainability in the 21st Century, by Hank Dittmar
The challenge of creating sustainable communities in the future can be met only by understanding the past.