Award-winning architect Patrick Ahearn treats readers to an exclusive tour of the timeless classical homes he's created in some of New England's most affluent communities, along the way revealing the unique, site-sensitive philosophy, point of view and principles that allow him to seamlessly balance preservation with innovation and have made him one of the region's most sought-after and successful residential designers. AUTHOR: Celebrated as one of America's top classical architects, Patrick Ahearn a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects began his career with ambitious adaptive-reuse public projects, and for the past 25 years has focused primarily on historically motivated, site-sensitive private residences in New England. Raised in Levittown, New York, and based in Boston for the past four decades, he received degrees in architecture and urban design from Syracuse University. Today, he oversees a firm of 12 designers working in studios in Boston's Back Bay and in Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard. SELLING POINTS: An architect's lifework, explained in his own words Patrick Ahearn takes us on a journey through the award-winning private residences and public environments he has created over his 45-year career Pays attention to Ahearn's uniquely urbanistic perspective, as well as how he works with clients to develop timeless dream-houses 250 colour images