Robert M. Gurney: Architect

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Featuring more than a dozen residential projects, including renovations and new homes, located in Washington, DC, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Washington, DC-area architect Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, designs ecologically aware modern homes using natural materials and varied construction methods. This latest volume in IMAGES’ ‘Master Architect Series’ features photography and drawings of more than a dozen of Gurney’s most recent projects. Gurney is dedicated to the design of modern, meticulously detailed, thoughtfully ordered residential and commercial projects sensitive to site, program and budget. Materials are employed with honesty, integrity and ecological awareness. Whether working in complex historical districts or on a vacant site, the design process involves an understanding of site-specific issues of location, landscape, history, availability of materials and construction methods. SELLING POINTS: * A monograph on the work of US-based architect Robert M. Gurney; the office of Robert M. Gurney, FAIA has won more than two hundred regional and national design awards, including AIA National Honor Awards and American Architecture Awards * Featuring more than a dozen residential projects, including renovations and new homes, located in Washington, DC, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia 200 col.