Celebrating the courthouse : a guide for architects, their clients, and the public / edited by Steven Flanders; foreword by Justice Stephen G. Breyer.

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.

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Courthouses -- United States -- Design and construction.

1. American vernacular: the courthouse as a building type / William Seale --2. The image of the courthouse / Frank Greene --3. The geometry of a courthouse design / Jordan Gruzen, with Cathy Daskalakis and Peter Krasnow --4. Urban design and the courthouse: how sites shape solutions / Andrea P. Leers --5. Reading the architecture of today's courthouse / Paul Spencer Byard --6. Drawing meaning from the heart of the courthouse / Douglas P. Woodlock --7. The lawyer's perspective / George A. Davidson --8. Creating a courthouse that works for diverse constituencies and constituent parts / Steven Flanders --9. The courtroom in the age of technology / Fredric L. Lederer --10. Courthouse design at a crossroads Epilogue. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and federal architecture / Nathan Glazer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780393730708

240 p. : ill. ; 27 cm