Bonstra | Haresign Architects: Designing Community

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This book celebrates over 20 years of Bonstra|Haresign Architects community-focused practice.

It documents the growth and success attributable to the firms philosophy and methodological approach. Many beautiful images and descriptive text show that Bills and Davids design aspirations and cooperative work styles, shared by their talented, associate partners John Edwards and Jack Devilbiss and the studio teams, have produced not only award-winning architecture, but also architecture benefitting each projects surroundings.

Bonstra|Haresign Architects serves a variety of populations and communities: urban and suburban, commercial and residential, civic and cultural. Projects range from affordable and market-rate housing to historic restoration, renovation and adaptive reuse. Typologically diverse projects are the essence of Bonstra|Haresign Architects architectural work and community-building efforts. And desirable community enhancement resulting from their projects is visible in Washington, DC, urban neighborhoods as well as in eastern region.

Bonstra|Haresign Architects does not exist to implement the aesthetic tastes and wishes of a soloist starchitect or prima donna designer with a signature style, yet design artistry is an essential goal of the firm. This complements Bills and Davids fundamental commitment to create contextually modernist architecture as an agent of positive change beyond each projects site boundaries.

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Bonstra | Haresign Architects, based in Washington D.C., is guided by the belief that architecture transforms communities and inspires people. They are passionate about the power of architecture to uplift and revitalise the physical environment, along with the economic and social conditions of our world.