Steve Mouzon steps down from PlaceMakers, focuses on New Urban Guild

Steve Mouzon has stepped down from PlaceMakers to devote all his energy to the growth of the New Urban Guild, which focuses on architectural charrettes, “manufactured architecture,” and tools for the making of traditional towns and buildings. One tool is his self-published book, The New Vernacular Book of Architecture, which Mouzon describes as “totally Transect-based and polemically ecological, even to the point of telling you which LEED credits you can get for which patterns” of building. His intention is to show which forms of architecture best suit “a particular combination of regional climate, conditions, and culture.” Mouzon can be reached at steve@newurbanguild.com.