Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

(Metropolis Books/Gordon DeVries Studio) Christopher Rawlins examines the career of Horace Gifford, a widely forgotten architect who died of AIDS in 1992. Fire Island Modernist explains how the homes designed by Gifford on Fire Island in the 1960s and 1970s show Rawlins’ environmental modernism. Rawlins is the principal of Rawlins Design, a New York-based architecture firm.