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VOL. 10/NO. 5, SEPTEMBER 2009

Table of Contents

PROFILE
Distinct Forms
By reinventing historic design precedents and melding old and new sustainable technologies, Dennis Wedlick Architect creates residences that are uniquely of their time and place.

By Dan Cooper

FEATURE
A Life with a Purpose
The first Clem Labine Award honors Alvin Holm, AIA, for his longtime advocacy of Classicism and his exemplary built work.

By Kim A. O'Connell

RECENT PROJECTS
Scandinavia on the Panhandle
At the firm's first house at Seaside, Robert A. M. Stern Architects references Gustavian Classical, Art Deco and Jeffersonian precedents.

By Eve M. Kahn

Beachfront Palladian
Designed by de la Guardia Victoria Architects, a two-story house in the Bahamas combines local vernacular traditions with Palladian principles.

By Annabel Hsin

The Precast Cabin
A lakeside residence in eastern Idaho, designed by Buccellato Design and built with man-made timbers, blends outdoor ambience with 21st-century efficiency.

By Gordon Bock

Vintage Vernacular
A 2,000-acre former hog farm in Cornersville, TN, provides an ideal setting for a fox hunting farmstead designed by Eric Stengel Architecture.

By Nancy E. Berry

A Natural Balance
Using archaeology, garden science and landscape architecture, Graham Landscape transforms an 18th-century Maryland estate into a model of environmental stewardship.

By Lynne Lavelle

BOOK REVIEWS
Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses, by Gavin Stamp. Reviewed by Eve M. Kahn

The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury, by Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker. Reviewed by Eve M. Kahn

THE FORUM
Diversity in Education, by Christine G. H. Franck
The future of design is best served by drawing from both the Modernist and Classical traditions of architectural education.

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