Founded in 1997 by Thierry Francois, projects/products include fireplace mantels, range hoods, architectural elements, surfaces, cut stone, limestone, marble, scagliola, wood flooring, mosaics, fountains, terra cotta, DeCorbusier metal surfaces.
Democracy needs neighborhoods where diverse people mingle.
The happiness we pursue is more enduring and rewarding than the transient emotional lift of the sublime's novelty and drama. It resides instead in the beauty in the buildings we build and the urbanism we make with tradition’s guidance.
Urbanism is what we build to serve our needs and desires in families and neighborhoods and on up in scale to cities, states and nations. It is the grandest, most complicated, complex, and extensive thing we build, but we underestimate its role in our lives, and it is tradition that makes urbanism valuable for us.
Adam sets out to answer this basic question: Why does contemporary world architecture look the way it does?
Insights from cognitive psychology and related fields are providing intriguing answers to that question.
The wealth of material documents the most important development (in both senses of the word) in architecture and urbanism of the last three decades.
The book laments the way our city streets have been turned into “traffic sewers,” shoving pedestrians to the sidelines.
