Creating The New American Townhouse

Creating the New American Town House features thirty cutting-edge town houses that each draw from architectural tradition while achieving originality and enhancing the urban landscape by alternately breaking from and working within the limitations of the town house form. Within the typical form of several-story city houses bounded by parallel walls presented here are ingenious, exquisite and, above all, extremely livable solutions to the constraints of this classic urban housing type.
Ranging from sites in New York, San Francisco, Philadeliphia, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., each of the buildings featured in Creating the New American Town House represents an eloquent contribution to the form from such celebrated architects and designers as Hariri & Hariri, Stanley Saitowitz, Reed Krakoff, and 1100 Architects. Each project is extensively illustrated with full-color photography as well as plans and drawings. Alexander Gorlin's insightful text continues the discourse begun in his The New American Town House, surveying the adaptation of this beloved urban dwelling to the demands of a new century.

Alexander Gorlin has taught at Yale University and at the Cooper Union.