Edward Fords forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet; despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture; volumes 1 and 2); numerous articles; and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna; there are two questions Ford has; remarkably; never answered: "What is a detail?" and more importantly; "What is a good detail?" Ford is an architect as well as a writer; so it is not surprising that rather than answering these questions in a third book; he spent six years on the design and construction of a house. Building it was not an exercise in the application of ideas about detail; it was; rather; a mechanism for answering those two simple questions.
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