Seaside - Hardcover

Tourists from every continent travel to Seaside to enjoy its beautiful beaches, award-winning architecture, diverse restaurants, and array of cultural and sports events. Designed by small-town planning pioneers Andri?1/2s Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Seaside boasts work from renowned architects such as Leon Krier and Walter Chatham. Even Englandi?1/2s Prince of Wales has called Seaside a model of humane urban planning. This small community was founded in 1980 on a remote eighty acres near the town of Seagrove Beach along Floridai?1/2s northwest Gulf coast. Through his close friendship with Seaside founder Robert Davis, writer and photographer Steven Brooke gained unique insight into the thinking and planning that gave birth to Seaside, a community constructed on the belief that i?1/2our lives are unalterably affected by our architectural surroundings.i?1/2 With nearly two hundred lush color photographs, Brooke takes the reader from the earliest pioneer stages of the town, with its dirt streets and scrub landscape, to its development as an emerging cultural and intellectual center. In Seaside, we view the town from the first tin-roofed cottages to streets and boulevards of award-winning houses and public buildings. Brookei?1/2s text includes a discussion of the architectural elements that compose the Florida style and elaborates on the widely hailed urban design principles in effect at Seaside. This is the guide to the town of Seaside, complete with maps, walking tours, aerial views, and a look inside some of Seasidei?1/2s most beautifully decorated homes. Brookei?1/2s images, which celebrate both the towni?1/2s architecture and spirit, have contributed to Seasidei?1/2s fame--the small town that influenced architecture throughout the world.

Steven Brooke, an internationally acclaimed architectural photographer, received the National Honor Award for Photography from the American Institute of Architects. His beautiful, detailed photographs of Natchez also grace the pages of Pelican's The Majesty of Natchez Postcard Book. His other books include Seaside and The Gardens of Florida, both published by Pelican. An adjunct professor of architectural photography and composition at the University of Miami School of Architecture, Brooke lives with his son in Miami, Florida.