Outside Architecture: Outdoor Rooms Designed by Architects

Gloucester, MA / Cincinnati, OH: Rockport Publishers / North Light Books, 1999. Hardcover. VG-/G+ (book shows minor wear at corners and edges, otherwise all pages clear and intact - dust jacket shows minor wear at edges, small tear in top of spine, still protective). Black paper boards with embossed lettering on spine, black and color pictorial dust jacket with white and off-white lettering, 191 pp., color illustrations throughout. "Outside Architecture shows how architects are transforming outdoor spaces into places of habitation with the design of courtyards, pool houses, terraces, porches, and roof gardens, in response to the desire to spend more leisure time outdoors. Lavish color illustrations, architects' drawings, and illuminating text take the reader on a visual tour of these beautiful spaces. Depicted within these pages are many examples created by architects for themselves: William Turnbull and Mary Griffin's own home in the Napa Valley where the lawn serves as a large living room; the terraces, pool pavilion, and hammock room designed by Buzz Yudell for his home in Southern California; Walter Chatham's New York City roof garden created with potted plants and reflecting pool to provide a playground for the family's children and a pleasant retreat for summer dining within a major metropolis; a 27-foot bridge that rises 14 feet off the forest floor and runs through a house on the Olympic Peninsula designed by James Cutler; a swimming pool in Florida designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen that extends from the living room to a pool house, and many more.