Moose Hill House in Boston Home
The Moose Hill House was featured in the Summer 2009 issue of Boston Home. Editor-in-chief Rachel Levitt wrote:
“ . . . out of the blue, an e-mail arrived from someone I didn’t know. The author matter-of-factly offered us a project, images attached. I clicked on the JPEG and – whoa – got a sudden jolt of energy. The design gods were clearly issuing a reminder that inspiration strikes unexpectedly. The talent in question is Michael LeBlanc, an architect at Boston-based Utile Architecture + Planning. Following his introductory note and a brief phone call, we clinched a story that captures this magazine’s appreciation for scale (small), budget (moderate), and aesthetics (inviting, modern). A few months later, his work is part of what I like to think of as the Boston Home collection – houses we admire, even envy, but which don’t necessarily involve limitless budgets.”
Love Published in New Book
Tim Love’s essay “Urban Design after Battery Park City” was included in Urban Design, a collection of essays that were originally published in the Harvard Design Magazine and have been recently published by the University of Minnesota Press. Other contributors include Denise Scott Brown, Michael Sorkin, Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Jonathan Barnett, Kenneth Greenberg and Emily Talen.
“In Urban Design, Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders have assembled prominent figures in architecture, planning, and urban design to look back on the evolution of the discipline of urban design, assess the current state of the field, and anticipate how the profession must adapt in order to confront the challenges posed by the unprecedented rate of urbanization.”
In his essay, Love discusses strategies for re-energizing the practice of large-scale urban design including the need to work directly with real estate finance experts to find opportunities to rethink the dimension and plan logic of typical market-driven building types such as office buildings and high-rise residential buildings.