Designing Community: Bonstra | Haresign Architects

Bonstra|Haresign Architects is a community-focused architecture firm with over 20 years of experience. They have designed award-winning architecture that benefits its surroundings, ranging from affordable housing to historic restoration. Their work is typologically diverse and seeks to create desirable community enhancement. The firm prioritizes design artistry while creating contextually modernist architecture as an agent of positive change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2023
Publisher: Oro Editions

Bonstra|Haresign Architects, a community-focused architectural firm, has celebrated over 20 years of success. This book showcases the firm's philosophy and methodological approach, which have contributed to its growth and achievements. Through stunning images and descriptive text, it highlights the collaborative work styles of Bills, David, John Edwards, and Jack Devilbiss, as well as the studio teams, resulting in award-winning architecture that benefits its surroundings.

Bonstra|Haresign Architects serves a diverse range of populations and communities, including urban and suburban areas, commercial spaces, residential properties, civic institutions, and cultural landmarks. Their projects span from affordable and market-rate housing to historic restoration, renovation, and adaptive reuse, showcasing their commitment to typological diversity. The impact of their projects can be seen in various communities, including Washington, DC, urban neighborhoods, and the eastern region.

While Bonstra|Haresign Architects does not prioritize the implementation of a soloist architect's aesthetic tastes or personal design style, design artistry is an essential goal. It complements the firm's fundamental commitment to creating contextually modernist architecture as a catalyst for positive change beyond the boundaries of each project site.

Through their work, Bonstra|Haresign Architects has demonstrated a deep understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surroundings, striving to create spaces that enhance the lives of those who inhabit them. Their dedication to community-focused design and their commitment to creating architecture that benefits both the built environment and the communities they serve have earned them recognition and acclaim in the architectural industry.

Weight: 1950g
Dimension: 304 x 254 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781957183107