# Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Hardcover

by **Paul Goldberger** (Author)

**The story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the Hamptons**

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an extraordinary house on the Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton--Blue Dream, the result of a remarkable collaboration between collectors Julie Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, builder Ed Bulgin, landscape architect Michael Boucher and designer Michael Lewis, who sought to renew the legacy of modernist architecture and art in the Hamptons.  
Goldberger offers insight into the complex process by which an architectural idea generated a work that stands as the most striking addition of our time to the roster of architecturally ambitious modernist houses on Long Island. As he notes, "There are relatively few books devoted to the architecture of a single house, but what is clear if you read any of them is that they are stories about clients as much as about architects." So it is with Blue Dream. The Taubmans were inspired by the avant-garde spirit of artists and architects who settled and worked in the Hamptons and set out to create a house like no other, a house whose complex curving forms could only be built using the composite material used to make fighter jets.  
Iwan Baan's photographic portfolio documents Blue Dream across four seasons. Goldberger's text is illustrated with images of earlier modernist houses that inspired the project, as well as documentation of the design process involved in the making of Blue Dream itself.  
**Paul Goldberger** (born 1950), whom the _Huffington Post_ has called "the leading figure in architecture criticism," is a contributing editor at _Vanity Fair_ magazine. Goldberger began his career at the _New York Times_ in 1972 and was appointed architecture critic at the paper in 1973, working alongside Ada Louise Huxtable until 1982. In 1984, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism. As architecture critic for the _New Yorker_ (1997-2011), he wrote the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. After serving as dean of the Parsons School of Design from 2004 to 2006, Goldberger was named the Joseph Urban Professor of Design at the New School. He is the author of _Why Architecture Matters_ (2023), _Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry_ (2015), _Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture_ (2009), _Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons_, with photographer Jake Rajs (2018) and _Houses of the Hamptons_ (1986), among other publications.

**Number of Pages:** 280

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 13.3 x 10.2 IN

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2023

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