Celebrating The Courthouse Cl

by Flanders,Steven

• ISBN13: 9780393730708
• ISBN10: 0393730700
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

There are almost as many ways to design a good courthouse as one that is less than satisfactory. Celebrating the Courthouse illuminates, for the diverse professionals and laypeople who plan and create courthouses, the issues that must be addressed to achieve an effective and satisfying building. This book unites the skills and experience of architects, judges, administrators, and lawyer-users to guide the design of a complex building type. No attempt is made to prescribe a particular program for any model courthouse project. We live in too diverse a design world for that: courthouse programs are specific and distinct from one another. Rather, the distinguished contributors lay out a variety of solutions that can help solve the problems confronted in particular settings. Considering historical precedent, context, functional requirements, and public and client needs, they focus on the best practices in design and also upon some design failures, addressing the pitfalls presented by courthouse programs, which are among the most complex that architects face. Finally, they look at the technological revolution and the future of courthouse design.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(4)
Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Preface	13	(20)
Part One Placing the Courthouse in Its Community and History	33	(48)
American Vernacular: The Courthouse as a Building Type	35	(28)
William Seale
The Image of the Courthouse	63	(18)
Frank Greene
Part Two Solving the Distinctive Problems of a Courthouse Project	81	(72)
The Geometry of a Courthouse Design	83	(27)
Jordan Gruzen
Cathy Daskalakis
Peter Krasnow
Urban Design and the Courthouse: How Sites Shape Solutions	110	(23)
Andrea P. Leers
Reading the Architecture of Today's Courthouse	133	(20)
Paul Spencer Byard
Part Three The Courthouse, Its Publics and Its Users	153	(34)
Drawing Meaning from the Heart of the Courthouse	155	(13)
Douglas P. Woodlock
The Lawyer's Perspective	168	(8)
George A. Davidson
Creating a Courthouse That Works for Diverse Constituencies and Constituent Parts	176	(11)
Steven Flanders
Part Four The Future of the Courthouse	187	(37)
The Courtroom in the Age of Technology	189	(13)
Fredric L. Lederer
Courthouse Design at a Crossroads	202	(22)
Todd S. Phillips
Epilogue: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Federal Architecture	224	(8)
Nathan Glazer
Notes	232	(2)
Index	234