Building Community: The Work of Eskew + Dumez + Ripple - Hardcover

Through an analysis of works by Architects Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, this book seeks to pursue the role of the architect as community builder and shaper of human experience in addition to their physical impact on the built landscape. A first monograph for the firm, the book introduces the Studio's unique, personal and careful approach to the design of buildings of their own time and place within the culturally rich environment of New Orleans and the Deep South region.

Alex Krieger is founding principal of Chan Krieger NBBJ, the Cambridge, Massachusetts based architecture and urban design studio of NBBJ, a global architecture firm. Offering services in architecture, urban design and planning since 1984, the studio has served a broad array of clients in over thirty cities, focusing primarily on educational, institutional, health-care and public projects in complex urban settings. Lawrence Scarpa is the principal in charge of design at the firm Pugh + Scarpa, an award winning architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm with offices in California and North Carolina. His work has redefined the role of the architect to produce some of the most remarkable and exploratory work today. Since 2001 Mr. Scarpa's firm has received 42 major design awards including 15 National AIA Awards, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Record Interiors, 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize, 2006 and 2003 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Building Award and was a finalist for the World Habitat Award, one of ten firms selected worldwide.