This groundbreaking book argues convincingly that financial success in real estate development will increasingly require design that is smarter, greener, and more sustainable. It also provides examples of how this can be incorporated into a wide variety of real estate development projects.

Creating Value

Business & Money

Swaback, Vernon D.

Economics

Urban Land Institute

Vernon Swaback, FAIA is extremely passionate about his craft, and that is very evident in both his words and his own completed work. Swaback continues the Frank Lloyd Wright tradition of thoughtful and highly intelligent strategies for making homes, rather than houses. This book can be appreciated on several levels; the easiest of which is to simply enjoy its exceptional photography of resplendent homes. Going deeper the reader will find a passion and clarity that is only possible from an author who has lived his every word. At its deepest level this book is an invitation to explore our own dreams about life, made more rewarding by way of design.

Custom Home: Dreams, Desire, Design

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Images Publishing Dist Ac

Designing the Future

Herberger Center for Design

This extraordinary collection of thoughts and images adds up to a positive prophecy for a future in which the architecture and stewardship of daily life becomes humanity's greatest work of art. It is a future where standardised codes and arguments give way to commitment, creativity and beauty - where our deepest needs and desires are holistically embraced by thoughtful design. The Creative Community by Vernon D. Swaback is a journey through ideas and places, stretching our imaginations and inspiring us to move beyond our patterns of production-driven uniformity. This book is both invitation and guide for giving our best to the future by first creating it for ourselves. It illuminates a subject that is most often buried in planner's jargon, making it as personal as our own homes, which of course it is.

The Creative Community: Designing for Life

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