Period Homes Magazine March 2006 Table of Contents

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Vol. 7/No. 2, March 2006

Table of Contents

PROFILE
Art of the Interior
From an Upper East Side apartment to a Texas ranch to a Bermuda beach house, New York, NY-based Brockschmidt & Coleman creates interiors that strike a delicate balance between comfort and formality.

By Will Holloway

FEATURE
Anatomy of a Georgian Room
The room is the basic spatial building block of architecture and the proportional principles of punctuation and differentiation can give this space both rigor and beauty.

By Richard Franklin Sammons

RECENT PROJECTS
A Place in the Sun
West Chester, PA-based Archer & Buchanan, Ltd., brought light and air to a dark, underused interior of a Philadelphia townhouse by gutting the first floor, opening up the rear of the house for a terrace with glass doors and adding a skyllight at the top of a newly siutuated stair.

By Marieke Cassia Gartner

From the Inside Out
Martin Brandwein Architect of Brooklyn, NY, created an addition to a 1934 Tudor Revival in Scarsdale, NY, that was true to the style, yet appropriate for contemporary living.

By Marieke Cassia Gartner

Victorian Revival
The restoration of a 1900 New Jersey Queene Anne by Clawson Architects, LLC, of Maplewood, NJ, centered on expanding and refining the kitchen and bath for a family of five.

By Nicole V. Gagné

BOOK REVIEWS
North Shore Boston: Houses of Essex County, 1865-1930, by Pamela W. Fox and Jonathan Winthrop. Reviewed by John Tittmann

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses, by Alan Hess. Reviewed by Thomas Gordon Smith

Gracie Mansion: A Celebration of New York City’s Mayoral Residence, by Ellen Stern. Reviewed by Nicole V. Gagné

THE FORUM
The Impact of Katrina, by Stephen A. Mouzon
The greatest natural disaster in American history may have profoundly positive effects on the future of architecture on the Gulf Coast. The Mississippi Renewal Forum is over, but its recommendations and initiatives are set to change our thinking on planning and architectural design.

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