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Brian Healy is an architect and educator based in Boston. He established his architectural practice there in 1986, and he has taught graduate design studios at the Yale School of Architecture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, among many others. In 2007, Healy was selected to be the Visiting Artist in Residence at Amherst College. As part of this residency, he was asked to prepare an exhibition and lecture placing his work within the context of contemporary American architecture. This book collects that work in essays, observations, drawings, paintings and photographs spanning the last 20 years, with projects in a dozen states ranging from the Appalachian hills to the vineyards of Northern California; from the Catskills in New York to the west side of Chicago; from downtown Boston to the beach communities along the central coast of New Jersey.