The Architecture Of Edwin Lundie

Throughout a fifty-year career in St. Paul, architect Edwin H. Lundie (1886-1972) designed more than three hundred projects, predominantly residences. His architectural designs, along with the Prairie School inventions of Purcell and Elmslie and the modernist themes of Ralph Rapson, are collectively considered the best work of Minnesota architects in the 20th century. What set Lundie apart from his colleagues was his devotion to detail and love of fine craftsmanship. This book documents Lundie's architecture through color photography, plan graphics, and his drawings and renderings.

The Lundie "Companion" is a comprehensive biography of a renowned Minnesota traditionalist architect. It includes interviews, first-hand accounts, previous Lundie scholarship, a listing of all of his commissions and proposals, 1919-1972, with city-home addresses and over 75 images with the catalog of his architectural library. This book reveals how Lundie achieved levels of mastery along three fundamental areas through architect-client synergy: beginning with his long period of apprenticeship and artistic development, followed by his embrace of traditional architecture with the creation of a design vocabulary uniquely his own, finally his derivation of beautiful original designs through a distinct material-centric approach. This "Companion" is fully complementary to the 2016 hardcover, Edwin H. Lundie ~ Five Decades ~ A Journey of Art & Architecture.

More than 250 biographies of architects who were born or worked for a significant time in Minnesota, featuring the architect's era of work, educational and professional experience, and descriptions of his or her most notable buildings.

Thoroughly researched and meticulously written, this guidebook features more than 250 architectural wonders of wide-ranging styles in one of the loveliest neighborhoods in the Twin Cities.

The Culture of Building describes how the built world, including the vast number of buildings that are the settings for peoples everyday lives, is the product of building cultures--complex systems of people, relationships, building types, techniques, and habits in which design and building are anchored. These cultures include builders, bankers, architects, developers, clients, contractors, craftspeople, building inspectors, planners, and many others. The product of these cultures, which operate building after building, is the built world of cities and settlements. In this book, Howard Davis uses historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural examples to describe the nature and influence of these cultures. He shows how building cultures reflect the general cultures in which they exist, how they have changed over history, how they affect the form of buildings and cities, and how present building cultures, which are responsible for the contemporary everyday environments, may be improved. Following the development of the idea of building cultures using several historical examples, the book lays out a framework that puts such topics as craft and professionalism, the vernacular and nonvernacular, and design and construction in common frameworks. Although the book ranges widely over different cultures and historical periods, it emphasizes the transformations that took place in architecture and building practice from the late eighteenth century to the present. Finally, the book uses a series of contemporary examples that demonstrate the building culture as a living concept. These examples, which include built work as well as innovative processes that go beyond the work of architects alone, are described as the seeds that can help the emergence of a better build world. This beautiful book features over 260 color and black-and-white illustrations, most from the authors extensive collection of slides, and includes photographs, prints, and drawings from historical archives and contemporary architectural offices.