July 2007 Period Homes Magazine Table of Contents

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Vol. 8./no. 4, July 2007

Table of Contents

PROFILE
The Quiet Architecture
Taking inspiration from the Low Country vernacular tradition, Beaufort, SC-based Moser Design Group has developed a business model around providing plans for New Urbanist Developments. By Will Holloway

PALLADIO WINNERS
Sympathetic Addition
Classicism in the City
Zivkovic Associates Architects of New York, NY, and John Simpson & Partners of London, England, combine to create a Classical addition to the Horace Trumbauer-designed Carhart Mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

New Design & Construction – more than 5,000 sq.ft.
Rooms with a View
Boston, MA-based Albert, Righter & Tittmann's design of a summer house in Northeast Harbor, ME, draws inspiration from rustic camps and the seaside traditions of Mt. Desert Island.

Restoration & Renovation
Withers Inspired
New York City-based BKSK Architects' restoration of a mid-1800s residence in the Riverdale Historic District of the Bronx, NY, returns the house to its late-19th-century, High Victorian appearance.

New Design & Construction – less than 5,000 sq.ft.
Classical Aspirations
Drawing on Roman and Palladian precedents, New York City-based Christine G.H. Franck designs a 3,500-sq.ft., two-story-porticoed residence in coastal North Carolina.

Special Award
Small Comfort
The 600-sq.ft. "Hobbit House" in Chester County, PA, designed by West Chester, PA-based Archer & Buchanan Architecture, serves as a museum for a collection of J.R.R. Tolkien memorabilia.

BOOK REVIEWS
Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations, by Colin Davies. Reviewed by Lynne Lavelle

Carolands, by Michael Middleton Dwyer. Reviewed by Andrew Skurman

Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home, by Jack Larkin. Reviewed by Stephen A. Mouzon

THE FORUM
Design Takes a Back Seat, by Brent Hull

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