Building Community: The Work of Eskew + Dumez + Ripple book by Steve Dumez, Nicole Marshall

Steve Dumez, Nicole Marshall

ISBN 10: 0982622627 / ISBN 13: 9780982622629

Published by Oro Editions, 2011

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Ecologists know these places of divergent habitat as robust eco-tones. As civic leaders, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple know that these lines of conflict can be, once identified, confidently transformed. A design m?lange is a hybrid resolution that brings together these points of conflict, differing interests and dynamic ecologies into a vibrant and nurturing environment through a social and cultural dialogue of architectural creation. M?lange requires an attitude where education and social design settings are central. It is a generative form of architectural process that produces not just buildings, rather, it is a civic act of setting the terms of social equity, community connection and hope in the city and its future. The designs are developed through an extensive set of interpersonal exchanges and hands-on design transactions that operate in small neighborhood meetings on front parches, in the local seafood restaurants, in builders' workshops, artists studios, church meeting halls or the hallways of City Hall. The act of design melange requ.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Community: The Work of Eskew + Dumez + Ripple book by Steve Dumez, Nicole Marshall
• Publisher: Oro Editions
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982622627
• ISBN 13: 9780982622629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Through an analysis of works by Architects Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, this book seeks to pursue the role of the architect as community builder and shaper of human experience in addition to their physical impact on the built landscape. A first monograph for the firm, the book introduces the Studio's unique, personal and careful approach to the design of buildings of their own time and place within the culturally rich environment of New Orleans and the Deep South region.