Celebrating The Courthouse
A Guide for Architects, Their Clients, and the Public

Steven Flanders, Editor

Overview – Contents – Review – Index

 

• Contents
• Foreword by Justice Stephen G. Breyer
• Preface

Part One: Placing the Courthouse in Its Community and History

• 1. American Vernacular: The Courthouse as a Building Type by William Seale
• 2. The Image of the Courthouse by Frank Greene

Part Two: Solving the Distinctive Problems of a Courthouse Project

• 3. The Geometry of a Courthouse Design by Jordan Gruzen, with Cathy Daskalakis and Peter Krasnow
• 4. Urban Design and the Courthouse: How Sites Shape Solutions by Andrea P. Leers
• 5. Reading the Architecture of Today’s Courthouses by Paul Spencer Byard

Part Three: The Courthouse, Its Publics and Its Users

• 6. Drawing Meaning from the Heart of the Courthouse by Douglas P. Woodlock
• 7. The Lawyer’s Perspective by George A. Davidson
• 8. Creating a Courthouse That Works for Diverse Constituencies and Constituent Parts by Steven Flanders

Part Four: The Future of the Courthouse

• 9. The Courtroom in the Age of Technology by Fredric L. Lederer
• 10. Courthouse Design at a Crossroads by Todd S. Phillips
• Epilogue: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Federal Architecture by Nathan Glazer

ISBN 10: 0-393-73070-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-73070-8
Octpber 2006
200 illustrations / 30 color / 320 pages / Cloth