Beautiful and Depressed explores the rise and fall of the sunken conversation pit in America. Using Eero Saarinen’s Miller House in Columbus, IN as a springboard, the book chronicles 1950s, 1960s and 1970s shelter magazines to create an archival history of sunken architecture, examining its cultural implications for space planning as American domestic life was undergoing a seismic shift.
Before The Lawns Are Dead is chronologically organized investigation into the styles and building patterns of residential architecture in Los Angeles from 1880-2000, highlighting the vernacular as opposed to high style architecture.