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Architect Ross Chapin defines a "pocket neighborhood" as a "cohesive cluster of homes gathered around some kind of common ground within a larger surrounding neighborhood" — achieving a small scale at which meaningful neighborly relationships are fostered. Here he discusses a 19th-century precedent for the pocket neighborhood, along with three modern examples. Workingmen's Cottages of Warren Place
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GROPIUS AND BREUER'S HAGERTY HOUSE Completed in 1938, this proverbial "box on the rocks" designed by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer sits on a spectacular rocky site directly on the Atlantic Ocean in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
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The Delft Montessori School in Delft, the Netherlands, is the archetype for Herman Hertzberger's Interactive School, incorporating a number of characteristic features and themes that encourage participation and appropriation of architectural forms as an integral part of the educational experience.
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More Building Culture Constructive Criticism: The Week in Architecture — Guardian Unlimited, 2011.0527S. Neil Schlosser, 67, an Architect — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2011.0526 Pocket Neighborhoods — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0525 House of Blues — Haaretz, 2011.0525 Fears over Mackintosh Legacy as Buildings Fall into Disrepair — BD (Registration required), 2011.0525 Design Review Needs More Planning Punch Say Cabe and RIBA — BD (Registration required), 2011.0525 An Architect’S Fear That Preservation Distorts — New York Times, 2011.0524 Ai Weiwei’S Face Projected Onto Chinese Consulate — Wall Street Journal, 2011.0524 California Attorney General Announces Creation of Mortgage Fraud Strike Force — Los Angeles Times, 2011.0524 New-Home Sales Rise 7.3 Percent in April — NAHB, 2011.0524 Before Taking on a Reverse Mortgage, It's Important to Know Options, Costs — Boston Globe, 2011.0524 Susan Roy's 'Bomboozled' and a History of the Shelter-Craze — Huffington Post, 2011.0524 Embracing Homes from the Seventies — Telegraph, 2011.0524 US New Home Sales Rise in April — BBC, 2011.0524 Geometry Skills Are Innate, Amazon Tribe Study Suggests — BBC, 2011.0524 U.S. Commercial Real Estate Prices Decline to Post-Crash Low, Moody’S Says — Bloomberg, 2011.0523 An Architect's Fear That Preservation Distorts — New York Times, 2011.0523 Home Buyers to Spend Half of Take-Home Pay on Mortgage — Telegraph, 2011.0523 Priciest Homes in Greenwich Suffer Four-Year Backlog on Wall Street Curbs — Bloomberg, 2011.0523 Purchases of New Homes in U.S. Probably Stagnated in April Near Record Low — Bloomberg, 2011.0523 The Builder Within — New York Times, 2011.0521 No Need to Fan Flames of Building Code Debate — Vancouver Sun, 2011.0521 Peter Eisenman, an Architect at Home — Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2011.0520 Homebuyer Discovers 'Lost Treasure' — Vancouver Sun, 2011.0520 Marion Manley: Miami's First Woman Architect — Architect's Newspaper, 2011.0520 In House Pricing, Own Up to Flaws — New York Times, 2011.0519 A 30-Month Short-Sale Saga — New York Times, 2011.0519 Federal Home-Building Programs Guarantee Waste — Boston Globe, 2011.0519 Seven Historic Sites Worth Saving — Arkansas Times, 2011.0519 Book Grant Enables New Sydney Architectural Publication — Architecture & Design (Australia), 2011.0519 Home Sales Fall Even as Mortgage Rates Touch Lows for 2011 — USA Today, 2011.0518 The American Folk Art Museum, in MoMA's Long Shadow — New York Observer, 2011.0517 Exposition Park's Issues Are L.A.'S Issues — Los Angeles Times, 2011.0516
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