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Title Celebrating the courthouse : a guide for architects, their clients, and the public / edited by Steven Flanders ; foreword by Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Edition First edition
Published New York : W.W. Norton, [2006]
©2006

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  725.15 Fla/Ctc  AVAILABLE
Description 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents 1. American vernacular : the courthouse as a building type / William Seale -- 2. The image of the courthouse / Frank Greene -- 3. The geometry of a courthouse design / Jordan Gruzen, Cathy Daskalakis and Peter Krasnow -- 4. Urban design and the courthouse : how sites shape solutions / Andrea P. Leers -- 5. Reading the architecture of today's courthouse / Paul Spencer Byard -- 6. Drawing meaning from the heart of the courthouse / Douglas P. Woodlock -- 7. The lawyer's perspective / George A. Davidson -- 8. Creating a courthouse that works for diverse constituencies and constituent parts / Steven Flanders -- 9. The courtroom in the age of technology / Fredric L. Lederer -- 10. Courthouse design at a crossroads / Todd S. Phillips -- Epilogue : Daniel Patrick Moynihan and federal architecture / Nathan Glazer
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index
Subject Courthouses -- United States -- Design.
Author Breyer, Stephen G., 1938-
Flanders, Steven.
LC no. 2006022751
ISBN 0393730700 (hbk.)
9780393730708 (hbk.)