All the Queens Houses - by Rafael A Herrin-Ferri (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The borough of Queens has long been celebrated as the melting pot of America. It was the birthplace of North American religious freedom in the seventeenth century, hosted two World's Fairs in the twentieth, and is currently home to over a million foreign-born residents participating in the American experience. In 2013, Spanish-born artist and architect Rafael Herrin-Ferri began to paint a portrait of the "World's Borough"--not with images of its diverse population, or its celebrated international food scene, but with photographs of its highly idiosyncratic housing stock. While All the Queens Houses is mainly a photography book celebrating the broad range of housing styles in New York City's largest and most diverse county, it is also a not-so-subtle endorsement of a multicultural community that mixes global building traditions into the American vernacular, and by so doing breathes new life into its architecture and surrounding urban context.

With an introductory essay by Joseph Heathcott

Review Quotes

"An
impressive collection featuring thousands of captivating photographs that
chronicled his amazing odyssey." Tammy Scileppi (qns.com)


"These houses -- often single-family dwellings and duplexes -- display an
eclecticism that can't easily be categorized, and they're shown off
beautifully in this traipse around the borough" (The Best New Books to Give Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Enthusiasts by curbed.com)

About the Author

Rafael Herrin-Ferri is a Spanish-born architect/artist living in Sunnyside, Queens. He received a B.Arch from Cornell University in 1996 and worked in several architectural studios in San Francisco and Barcelona before settling in New York in 2003. His longstanding interest in vernacular architecture led him to initiate an independent photographic survey in 2013 of his home borough titled "All the Queens Houses".