The Nature of Home: Creating Timeless Houses. This item is unavailable.The Nature of Home: Creating Timeless Houses

Award-winning architect Jeff Dungan designs clean-lined, light-filled houses made of reclaimed materials--brick, wood, stone--that carry an air of lasting beauty and that are made to be handed on to future generations.

Following in the tradition of populist architects Gil Schafer and Bobby McAlpine, Jeff Dungan designs new traditional houses for today. In this, his first book, Jeff Dungan shares his advice and insight for creating these "forever" houses, and explores eight houses in full, from a beach house on the Gulf coast to a family farm in the Alabama countryside to a Southern lake house. All speak of authenticity, timelessness, and lived history that reveals itself through the natural patinas and flaws that come with age. Dungan is a poet-architect, and he writes with feeling about how his work is inspired by the majesty of nature, like the verticality of the oaks that towered over his childhood ramblings through the woods. Layered in between are thematic essays on the importance of elements such as light, stone, and rooflines in creating a home.

Acclaimed Southern architect Jeff Dungan grew up on a small Alabama farm. He has been honored with numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects as well as the 2017 Southeast Architect of the Year Award by Veranda magazine and ADAC. He became a fellow in 2015 of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. In 2018 he won a prestigious Palladio Award, the only national award in the United States given for excellence in classical design. Dungan's work has been featured in Veranda, The Wall Street Journal, Garden & Gun, Southern Living, and House Beautiful.

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