About the Author

"Richard Fernau is a Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley, where he has taught design and theory since 1981. He has served on a number of architectural juries including the Progressive Architecture Awards and as an evaluator for the MacArthur Awards. Richard's work ranges from furniture design to large-scale master plans. Before forming Fernau + Hartman Architects with Richard Fernau in 1980, Laura Hartman, AIA, worked with Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis in San Francisco and with Dolf Schneibli e Associati, in Agno, Switzerland. Laura has taught in the Architecture Department at UC Berkeley, at the University of Utah, and at the University of Oregon. She frequently serves on architectural design juries. Foreword by Beth Dunlop, editor of MODERN Magazine and an architecture critic, writer, and editor who lives in Miami Beach, Florida. Essays by Thomas Fisher (professor of architecture and the Dean of the College of Design at University of Minnesota) and Daniel Gregory (editor of Houseplans.com and former Senior Editor at Sunset magazine.)"