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Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the world’s largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Interviews with residents of the racially integrated and economically stable neighborhood reveal how people interact with the unique modernist environment. 

The work of Boston-based landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand, widely recognized for rigorously conceived and carefully executed projects that merge the particular native qualities of a site with recognizably contemporary design expression, is illustrated and essayed in this lush book. 

Architects’ Sketchbooks is the first survey to present pages from the private sketchbooks of a wide international spectrum of architects.