From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig to the community-built structures of Rural Studio, designers everywhere increasingly champion an architecture that exists from, in, and for a specific place. Local Architecture: Building Place, Craft, and Community examines this global shift that was presented at the thirteenth and final Ghost Architectural conference, "Ideas in Things." This stunnig volume bridges the ideals of the Ghost conference, place, craft, and community, with essays by renowned architectural thinkers and works by internationally recognized place-based architects, to establish a contemporary discourse for the ideal of a local architecture.
