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About The New Farm: Contemporary Rural Architecture
Product Description Recent generations of farmers have reinvented the family farm and its traditions, embracing organic practices and sustainability and, along with them, a bold new use of modern architecture. The New Farm profiles sixteen contemporary farms around the globe, accompanied by plans and colorful images that highlight the connections among family, food, design, terrain, and heritage. Review "Although Daniel P. Gregory's The New Farm was slated for publication long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, I have encountered no book that better evokes the longings so many of us have felt under lockdown: for fresh air, real solitude, and uncluttered and intentional spaces to inhabit....The book's greatest strength is its ability to invite the reader into a place, quickly sketch the landscape and buildings, and anchor people, animals, and agricultural processes within that topography. In its most effective case studies, the relationship between architecture and activity comes to life through designer Benjamin English's deft layout." - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Some of the world's most functional architecture can be found on the farm. From farmhouses to stables to barns, farming structures value simplicity and practicality above all. The efficiency of these buildings has long been an inspiration to modern architects designing homes, museums, and commercial buildings, but lately modern architecture has also been influencing farms. In the upcoming book The New Farm: Contemporary Rural Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, $45), author Daniel P. Gregory explores how firms have taken a bolder approach to agricultural design with striking exteriors, grand interiors, and inventive materials. Gregory showcases 16 farms around the world, from a cathedral-like dairy farm in New York state to sleek stables in New South Wales, Australia. Each of the family businesses offers a new take on farming traditions with an eye to sustainability and beautiful design. --Architectural Digest "Here, without our realizing it, may be just what we've been needing: a collection of designs that are simple, economical, practical, and unselfconsciously handsome. Author Daniel Gregory, for years the senior home editor at Sunset magazine, quotes architect Cliff May (about whom he wrote in Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House ) as saying, "You never see a bad barn." Influences on these designs, in addition to May, have been William Wurster, Edward Larrabee Barnes, and the many collaborators involved in the Sea Ranch housing community in Sonoma County. Current practitioners represented here include Backen & Gillam of St. Helena, California, and Machado Silvetti of New York. We see 16 examples, nine of them in the U.S., two each in Canada and Australia, and one each in Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands." --Interior Design This collection, extending from California to Kentucky and as far as Tasmania, of contemporary farm buildings shows how barns, mills, and farmhouses are part of a strong vernacular and modernist tradition. The 16 examples selected by Daniel Gregory, a former editor at Sunset magazine, often pay homage to such Bay Area modernists in the postwar period as William Wurster. - Architectural Record "For those who haven't already decamped for a pastoral Eden in the pandemic, let this book be your escape. Gregory visits 16 contemporary farms around the globe, revealing modern farming practices and the bold new architectural forms that support them, from Kentucky to Tasmania. Architects featured include Tom Kundig, William Turnbull, Edward Larabee Barnes, and others." - AIA New York About the Author Daniel P. Gregory is a longtime magazine and website editor and author of Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House, also From the Land: Backen, Gillam & Kroeger Architects, as well as numerous essays about modern California architecture
