Seaside by Steven Brooke

Seaside by Steven Brooke

Tourists from
every continent travel to Seaside to enjoy its beautiful beaches, award-winning
architecture, diverse restaurants, and array of cultural and sports events.
Designed by small-town planning pioneers Andr 1/2s Duany and Elizabeth
Plater-Zyberk, Seaside boasts work from renowned architects such as Leon Krier
and Walter Chatham. Even England 1/2s Prince of Wales has called Seaside a model of
humane urban planning.
This small community was founded in
1980 on a remote eighty acres near the town of Seagrove Beach along Florida 1/2s
northwest Gulf coast. Through his close friendship with Seaside founder Robert
Davis, writer and photographer Steven Brooke gained unique insight into the
thinking and planning that gave birth to Seaside, a community constructed on the
belief that 1/2our lives are unalterably affected by our architectural
surroundings. 1/2 With nearly two hundred lush color photographs, Brooke takes the
reader from the earliest pioneer stages of the town, with its dirt streets and
scrub landscape, to its development as an emerging cultural and intellectual
center. In Seaside, we view the town from the first tin-roofed
cottages to streets and boulevards of award-winning houses and public buildings.
Brooke 1/2s text includes a discussion
of the architectural elements that compose the Florida style and elaborates on
the widely hailed urban design principles in effect at Seaside. This is the
guide to the town of Seaside, complete with maps, walking tours, aerial views,
and a look inside some of Seaside 1/2s most beautifully decorated homes. Brooke 1/2s
images, which celebrate both the town 1/2s architecture and spirit, have
contributed to Seaside 1/2s fame--the small town that influenced architecture
throughout the world.