Awards

• Winner of Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize, Vernacular Architecture Forum 2010 (United States)

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Delirious New Orleans makes the argument that this collection of vernacular architecture serves as cultural touchstones, and that its presence is a necessary component to this great American city. Kevin Alter, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin As well as providing a superb record of New Orleans's endangered urban fabric, Delirious New Orleans is also a meditation on placemaking , something he feels modern architects and town planners have ignored...Verderber's evocative, even loving, descriptions of these structures and artefacts and his striking images create a memorable celebration of the built environment of New Orleans and reflect a deep understanding of place. He hopes his study is not a eulogy but a blueprint for a soon-to-be-reborn city...Whether it continues to fulfil this role in the future will depend on whether the authorities listen to the communities they are supposed to represent and to preservation warriors such as Verderber; and whether placemaking triumphs over placelessness. P.D. Smith, Times Literary Supplement, 26th June, 2009

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Stephen Verderber has taught in the School of Architecture at Tulane University for more than twenty years and is a registered architect. He is currently Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at Clemson University in South Carolina.

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