Ennead Architects

Common Ground: Schermerhorn House Ennead Architects

Brief Description: Schermerhorn House will provide safe and dignified affordable housing for low-income workers from the community, especially those in the performing arts and entertainment industry, people transitioning out of homelessness, and people living with AIDS. An innovative collaboration of non-profit organizations, government, and the private sector, it will be an important contribution to the revitalization of downtown Brooklyn and establish a green design standard for affordable housing development throughout New York City. Biographical Note: The "Ennead Profile Series" is comprised of books on single buildings, which together communicate the firm's sensibilities. Corresponding to Ennead Architects' philosophy of creating a singular and appropriate architectural response to the particular program, site, and client conditions, each book is, itself, a distinct reflection of the individual building and its makers. The Designer of the building is deeply involved in the book's design and evolution: the building is translated, shared and re-explored for the reader from the intimate perspective of the architect who designed it. The result is a presentation of architecture that is fresh, at times messy and never didactic. Jacket Description/Flap: The Ennead Profile Series 5 is a boxed of four books on aingle biildings that communicate the firm's sensibilities. In line with the Ennead Architects' philosophy of creating a singular architectural response to the particular program, site, and client conditions, each book is a distinct reflection of the individual building. The structures explores in the fifth series include Common Ground's Schermerhorn House in Brooklyn, Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, the Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Laboratory at Ohio State University, and the Paresky Center at Wiliiams College. Marc Notes: 'The Profile Series' is comprised of books on single buildings, which together communicate the firm's sensibilities. Corresponding to Ennead Architects philosophy of creating a singular and appropriate architectural response to the particular program, site, and client conditions, each book is, itself, a distinct reflection of the individual building and its makers. The structures explored in the fifth series include Common Ground's Schermerhorn House in Brooklyn, Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, the Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Laboratory at Ohio State University, and the Paresky Center at Williams College.