FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: May 9, 2008
New Classicists Series Published by Images Publishing
Introduction and text by Michael J. Crosbie
Forewords by Cesar Pelli and Robert Venturi
Essay by John R. DaSilva
Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer, a new monograph on the work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders, will be released in July 2008 by Images Publishing. The full-color, 264-page book features more than two dozen projects ranging from modest to elaborate, each one an individual creation tailored to its specific location and client. Several additional projects are depicted in a chronology of the firm's major work.
The book contains an introduction and text by Michael J. Crosbie, as well as forewords by renowned architects Cesar Pelli and Robert Venturi. An essay by John R. DaSilva, Design Partner of Polhemus Savery DaSilva, describes the firm's approach and revisits the genesis of the Shingle Style that is so influential in residential architecture today.
Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer presents more than ten years of design and construction that is at once fresh, yet rooted in Cape Cod tradition. In an architectural world increasingly polarized between strict revivalist classicism and avant-garde abstraction, the work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva displays a compelling third way.
In the words of Robert A. M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, "The work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva beautifully melds the traditions of New England with the way we live today, affirming that an architecture of place trumps an architecture preoccupied with passing trends."
Architect Michael Graves said "The world of Polhemus Savery DaSilva is so enormously refreshing, as this work takes the best of the Cape's context together with the architect's own personal approach and melds them into a body of uncompromising domestic architecture."
Drawings by the firm and over four hundred color photographs by leading architectural photographers illustrate this sixth volume in IMAGES' New Classicist series. Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer, the Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva, will be available in bookstores summer 2008.
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