Last year CU-Boulder professor and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research fellow Tad Pfeffer helped lead a research group that mapped nearly 200,000 glaciers around the world to better understand how much seas could rise as the planet warms. Pfeffer’s passion for glaciers is crystal clear. The built-world inspires him, too — especially the history and architecture of middle-class summer homes in New England in the decades just before and after 1900. His book, The Hand of the Small-Town Builder: Summer Homes in Northern New England, 1876-1930, published in April 2014, harkens to a time when middle-class families with extended summer vacations — often the families of clergy, teachers and academics — began building small camps and cottages at scenic spots in rural New England. “I believe we have the opportunity, even today, and in part through architecture, to follow the example of the small-town builders, to simplify and distill our lives, to identify and preserve essential elements and discard others,” Pfeffer writes in his book. Read more about professor Pfeffer and see more photos in the Forever Buffs: University of Colorado Boulder Alumni Coloradan Magazine - coloradanmagazine.org/2014/10/01/hand-builder/
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:51:52 +0000
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