Books

Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877–1940

The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 2

The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1

55 Door Handles, or What is a Detail?

Five Houses, Ten Details

The Architectural Detail

Design Work

Ford House

Unbuilt Architecture Awards: Park and Recreation Structures Revised

TowerA in a Vacant Lot near the Ben Franklin Bridge

Unbuilt Architecture Awards: Trinity + 1

Section through North wall and solar glazing

Great Basin National Park Artist in Residence Project

Book Excerpts

Radical Practice

Communicative Construction

Architectural Graphic Standards

A. Lawrence Kocher: American Architect

Published Articles

The Theory and Practice of Impermanence

Frank Lloyd Wright's Textile Block Houses

The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative

The Long Wait for the Inevitable

The Age of Anxiety: Thoughts on Stability

The Inconvenient Friend

Unpublished Articles

Dastardly Acts: Explorations in the Primative, the Archaic and the Vernacular

Antoni Gaudí and the Casa Milà

Mies van der Rohe in Chicago

Thoughts on Architecture at the University of Virginia

Brick as Brick, Wood as Wood, Stone as Stone: The Nature of Material in Modern Architecture

Design Competitions

Free Union Country School

Alpine Mountain Hut

Journey's End: World War I Memorial

Guggenheim Helsinki

Chicago Lakefront Kiosk

Istanbul Pop-up Bazar

Balancing Pavilion

Pavilosta Poet Huts

Oslo Design Museum

Videos

WashU Sam Fox School: Outside the Frame: Carlo Scarpa and Sverre Fehn

Drawing on Glass with Soap: Lutyens, Proportion, and Perception

University of Cincinnati DAAP Lecture

UOregon Architecture: Confessional of a Failed English Major—Building and Texts 1999-2010

Ford Studio Review UT Austin

Benedikt Studio Review UT Austin

Other

An Open Letter to the University of Virginia

Articles on Teaching

Architect Magazine Studio Prize

Appalachia Studio Reading List

© 2025–2026

Edward R Ford, Architect

All Rights Reserved

Books

Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877–1940

The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 2

The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1

55 Door Handles, or What is a Detail?

Five Houses, Ten Details

The Architectural Detail

Design Work

Ford House

Unbuilt Architecture Awards: Park and Recreation Structures Revised

TowerA in a Vacant Lot near the Ben Franklin Bridge

Unbuilt Architecture Awards: Trinity + 1

Section through North wall and solar glazing

Great Basin National Park Artist in Residence Project

Book Excerpts

Radical Practice

Communicative Construction

Architectural Graphic Standards

A. Lawrence Kocher: American Architect

Published Articles

The Theory and Practice of Impermanence

Frank Lloyd Wright's Textile Block Houses

The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative

The Long Wait for the Inevitable

The Age of Anxiety: Thoughts on Stability

The Inconvenient Friend

Unpublished Articles

Dastardly Acts: Explorations in the Primative, the Archaic and the Vernacular

Antoni Gaudí and the Casa Milà

Mies van der Rohe in Chicago

Thoughts on Architecture at the University of Virginia

Brick as Brick, Wood as Wood, Stone as Stone: The Nature of Material in Modern Architecture

Design Competitions

Free Union Country School

Alpine Mountain Hut

Journey's End: World War I Memorial

Guggenheim Helsinki

Chicago Lakefront Kiosk

Istanbul Pop-up Bazar

Balancing Pavilion

Pavilosta Poet Huts

Oslo Design Museum

Videos

WashU Sam Fox School: Outside the Frame: Carlo Scarpa and Sverre Fehn

Drawing on Glass with Soap: Lutyens, Proportion, and Perception

University of Cincinnati DAAP Lecture

UOregon Architecture: Confessional of a Failed English Major—Building and Texts 1999-2010

Ford Studio Review UT Austin

Benedikt Studio Review UT Austin

Other

An Open Letter to the University of Virginia

Articles on Teaching

Architect Magazine Studio Prize

Appalachia Studio Reading List

© 2025–2026

Edward R Ford, Architect

All Rights Reserved

Books

Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877–1940

The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 2

The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1

55 Door Handles, or What is a Detail?

Five Houses, Ten Details

The Architectural Detail

Design Work

Ford House

Unbuilt Architecture Awards: Park and Recreation Structures Revised

TowerA in a Vacant Lot near the Ben Franklin Bridge

Unbuilt Architecture Awards: Trinity + 1

Section through North wall and solar glazing

Great Basin National Park Artist in Residence Project

Book Excerpts

Radical Practice

Communicative Construction

Architectural Graphic Standards

A. Lawrence Kocher: American Architect

Published Articles

The Theory and Practice of Impermanence

Frank Lloyd Wright's Textile Block Houses

The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative

The Long Wait for the Inevitable

The Age of Anxiety: Thoughts on Stability

The Inconvenient Friend

Unpublished Articles

Dastardly Acts: Explorations in the Primative, the Archaic and the Vernacular

Antoni Gaudí and the Casa Milà

Mies van der Rohe in Chicago

Thoughts on Architecture at the University of Virginia

Brick as Brick, Wood as Wood, Stone as Stone: The Nature of Material in Modern Architecture

Design Competitions

Free Union Country School

Alpine Mountain Hut

Journey's End: World War I Memorial

Guggenheim Helsinki

Chicago Lakefront Kiosk

Istanbul Pop-up Bazar

Balancing Pavilion

Pavilosta Poet Huts

Oslo Design Museum

Videos

WashU Sam Fox School: Outside the Frame: Carlo Scarpa and Sverre Fehn

Drawing on Glass with Soap: Lutyens, Proportion, and Perception

University of Cincinnati DAAP Lecture

UOregon Architecture: Confessional of a Failed English Major—Building and Texts 1999-2010

Ford Studio Review UT Austin

Benedikt Studio Review UT Austin

Other

An Open Letter to the University of Virginia

Articles on Teaching

Architect Magazine Studio Prize

Appalachia Studio Reading List

© 2025–2026

Edward R Ford, Architect

All Rights Reserved