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Courtesy of Wythe Press Growing up in Alabama, I was well aware of the influence of the many talented architects at work in the state. We’ve had several generations of great classicists, but there is also a new generation of talent within our region fluent in a language that combines aspects of the more familiar historical architecture with a dash of vernacular charm and fingerprints of modernism, says Austin. As Ken Pursley says in the book, it’s an architecture that dumps together the Lego sets of modernism and classical architecture, and the alchemy therein produced is quite magical. Some of the homes in the book are more classical, some a bit more modern, but there’s a consistent respect for the lessons of history and architectural precedent. There are a number of architects working throughout the country producing work in this vein, and there seems to be a real respect among practices for the extraordinary talents at work today.