McInturff's architecture reminds all of us that the joy of architecture is in the journey, and in the very parts we can grasp with our hands. Looking through this book, one can see how much pleasure McInturff and his collaborators still take in the practice of architecture.
"Over 15 years, since founding his own firm on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., McInturff has kept his firm small, allowing him to stay intimately involved with designing and building.
"The majority of the firm's work is still residential'houses involve a level of emotional investment from the client that is missing in many other building types. These are meaningful structures to the people who will live there, and McInturff welcomes them as part of the creative process.
"Each project in this book reveals McInturff's infatuation with detail. He has long worked in the realm of renovations and additions, and approaches architecture with a complexity and complicity that architects used to working on clean slates might envy. He does not believe in the 'seamless' addition, where the new architect's work should disappear within the language of the older building. In any project, McInturff explores its underlying order. He attempts to draw what is interesting out of what is there, taking that as a starting point upon which to base his own design. It is a delicate balancing art, and it demands an attention and sensitivity to detail that is the product of years of practice". From the Introduction by Michael J. Crosbie.publiarq.com
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