Devil's Workshop : 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com This look at the loose alliance of designer-builders known as "Jersey Devil" and their eccentric, design-as-you-go projects of the last 25 years is a book for endless perusal. The three principal founders of Jersey Devil, Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel, aren't registered architects, although they have studied architecture. They have built together, separately, and with various friends and associates, but all they share, corporately, is a post-office box. They've created some of the most innovative, outrageous, lovingly crafted, energy-efficient, curvaceous homes around, none of which looks like any we've seen in our neighborhood. Their fun and funky architecture is usually called "alternative," but it is, in fact, both practical and highly principled. Which is why Jersey Devil is trickling into the mainstream, with wise designs for such important buildings as, for example, a Montessori school. --Margaret Moorman Wallpaper Apparently, you'd never encounter these American architects "reclining in a magazine ad for shoes and sheets." But we like them anyway. Named after a mythic spoilsport blamed for ruining rural New Jersey, Jersey Devil is notorious for totally over-the-top works peppering the northern hemisphere. Jim Adamson, Steve Badanes and John Ringel, who take part in the actual construction of their designs, have worked in various combinations since the early 70s. At first, the three fancied themselves as "citizen-designer-craftspeople" (the earliest knotty-wood hippie houses are scary). Then they made pods with a solar and environmental emphasis. (We'll take them.) And finally, their big houses have sharpened up beach and clifftops alike. As the 1988-89 Baja California "Casa Mariposa" (shown on the cover) illustrates, they do a devil of a job. Devil's Workshop : 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture
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