Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer: The Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva

Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer, a monograph on the work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders, was 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.

Ten Years of Cape Cod Design and Construction

Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer presents more than 10 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."

Drawings by the firm and over 400 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, is available in finer bookstores and online.