LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE Shingle Style Architecture Thomas A. Kligerman, John Ike and Joel Barkley DESIGNER SATURDAY, Saturday, October 24 | 2:30 p.m.
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cclaimed architects John Ike, Thomas A. Kligerman and Joel Barkley believe the American romance with the shingle style has lasted nearly 150 years because it presents, in an understated way, the best of everything. The shingle style captures particularly American values: freedom and informality, individualism, and a certain energetic restlessness. For this distinguished design firm, the study of shingle architecture spurs creativity, enabling new answers to old questions, and opening one’s mind as well as one’s eyes. In their
lecture, the architects will present from among the 14 residences in their new book, The New Shingled House (Monacelli Press, 2015). Although inspired by past precedent, these are houses of today, embracing contemporary modes of living and benefiting from advances in technology. Ike, Kligerman and Barkley are three 21st-century design practitioners who have developed and refined their unique approach over their 25 years of practice. You will be informed with historical descriptions and engaged with personal anecdotes as these imaginative designers describe their enduring love for the shingle style.
John Ike , Tom Kligerman , and Joel Barkley opened the design firm Ike Kligerman Barkley 25 years ago, and today operate offices in New York City and San Francisco. The firm has designed buildings across the country and around the world: a Georgian townhouse in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston; a mountain lodge in Aspen; a loft in a repurposed butter factory in Manhattan; a vernacular white villa in Cabo San Lucas; a Romanesque building on Stanford’s campus; and a rambling, weathered shingle house in Martha’s Vineyard. Widely recognized for innovative residential design, the firm's projects are featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, Veranda, and other national publications, and have been awarded the prestigious Julia Morgan and Stanford White Awards from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, as well as with continuous recognition on the AD100 list from Architectural Digest. The New Shingled House follows their first monograph, Houses (The Monacelli Press, 2010). The lecture will be followed by a book signing of The New Shingled House by the authors in the Authors’ Alcove.
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