Margaret McCurry Constructing Twenty-Five Short Stories

by McCurry, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781580930468
• ISBN10: 1580930468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-05
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

American architect Margaret McCurry is known for her extraordinary series of private residences, all featuring a synthesis of modern classicism and the American vernacular. Order and symmetry, refinement and distillation, are characteristics not only of McCurry's design, but of her design process as well. This book, the first volume on her work, presents nineteen of her houses, along with selected other projects, and an absorbing personal narrative of her journey to become a principal in the Chicago architectural practice Tigerman McCurry. In twenty-five "short stories," which are accompanied by beautiful color photography and carefully delineated plans and other drawings, McCurry tells the tales behind the design and construction of her projects. In her honest assessment of the outcome of each, McCurry convincingly expounds upon her own philosophy of architecture, one in which the art of architecture is paramount.

Author Biography

Margaret McCurry is a principal in the Chicago firm Tigerman McCurry with her husband, renowned architect and educator Stanley Tigerman. The firm's practice includes cultural, institutional, and residential designs. McCurry's work has been published widely in trade and consumer magazines, and she has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Inside Out: On Becoming an Architect	6	(16)
Boardwalk	22	(4)
Suhu Gallery	26	(4)
Juvenile Protective Association	30	(4)
Herman Miller	34	(4)
Wit's End: The Glass House	38	(4)
Coulton Pond Ranch	42	(6)
Camp Madron	48	(4)
Haworth	52	(4)
Brandenburg Lake House	56	(4)
Hill Road House	60	(10)
Chicago Bar Association	70	(8)
Timberlane House	78	(4)
University Club	82	(6)
The Lighthouse	88	(8)
Justus House	96	(8)
The Preserve	104	(6)
Reinke Residence	110	(6)
Nineteenth-Century Farmhouse	116	(8)
Prairie Crossing	124	(8)
Michigan Shores Club	132	(6)
Wildwood	138	(8)
McClintock Camp	146	(8)
Neisser Condominium	154	(10)
Neisser House	164	(10)
Harris House	174	(12)
Project Information	186	(4)
Biography	190	(1)
Acknowledgments	191	(1)
Photography and Rendering Credits	192