STONE POEMS, ARCHITECTURE AND THE LAND
James Warfield

STONE POEMS explores and celebrates worldwide architectural works, which, according to Warfield, "exemplify the very best in culture, nature, architecture and land relationships."

"It illustrates issues of design with nature, of sustainability, of integrity in architecture, and of materiality and time," he said. "The original images are selected from a personal archive of vernacular and historic architecture for their ability to illustrate how some cultures around the world have, through time, established principles of design that honor nature, how some cultures have found a balance between what they take from the land and what they return to it."

"The images, he said, 'are intended to stimulate thought among the educated public as well as to challenge process and product among today's design professionals.'"
Melissa Mitchell, Arts Editor, UIUC News Bureau

James Warfield, is Professor Emeritus at the Design University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/jwarfiel/