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 land-scape 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 ngen-ious, exquisite, and, above all, extremely livable solutions to the constraints of this cassic urban housing type.

Once the bastion of the haute bourgeoisie, the town house has now been embraced by a largergroup of people--families with young children, single urban professionals, and retired couples, many of whom are now returning to the inner city, and many others favoring town house developments. In this follow-up volume to The New American Town House, architect Alexander Gorlin once again explores a spectacular array of diverse town house designs that carry this familiar symbol of architec-tural innovation and refinement into the twenty-first century. 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 land-scape 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 ngen-ious, exquisite, and, above all, extremely livable solutions to the constraints of this cassic urban housing type.

Ranging from sites in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia 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.

INTRODUCTION

ADVICE FROM THE ARCHITECT

DAVID SALLE TOWN HOUSE

CALVERT STREET TOWN HOUSE

TOWN HOUSE WITH SIX WALLS

HISTORIC TOWN HOUSE

DUANE STREET TOWN HOUSE

VILLAGE TOWN HOUSE

DOBLINTOWN HOUSE

NEW YORKTOWN HOUSE

BAY CITY/ABBOTT KINNEY TOWN HOUSES

PARK PRESIDIO TOWN HOUSE

GREENWICH VILLAGE TOWN HOUSE

SOMA TOWN HOUSE

KRAKOFF TOWN HOUSE

UPPER WEST SIDE TOWN HOUSE

YERBA BUENA TOWN HOUSES

MERRIN TOWN HOUSE

CHELSEA GALLERY AND TOWN HOUSE

VERTICAL TOWN HOUSE

REYNATOWN HOUSE

READE STREET TOWN HOUSE

OLD TOWN TOWN HOUSE

1110 GREEN STREET TOWN HOUSE

WEST SIDE TOWN HOUSE

TITAN TOWN HOUSES

CHICAGO TOWN HOUSE

GEORGETOWN TOWN HOUSE

WEST VILLAGE TOWN HOUSE

STATES STREET TOWN HOUSE

EAST55TH STREET TOWN HOUSES

CANNERY TOWN HOUSES

PERRY STREET TOWN HOUSE

PROJECT CREDITS

PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS