Devil's workshop

by Susan Piedmont-Palladino

For twenty-five years, the members of Jersey Devil have been constructing their own designs while living on site in tents or Airstream trailers, making adjustments to their structures in response to problems encountered during the building process. Jersey Devil is a name that has been attached to work by Steve Badanes, John Ringel, Jim Adamson, or any combination of the above, plus many other people who have participated in their diverse projects. Devil's Workshop, the first major monograph on the work of this iconoclastic group, contains complete project descriptions, photographs, drawings, and plans of more than a dozen projects, including the Snail House, the Silo House, the Hoagie House, and the Seaside Pavilion. Essays analyzing Jersey Devil's work provide an insight into the design-build process and its historical context and discuss the formal qualities inherent in these projects. A bibliography and full project chronology make Devil's Workshop the comprehensive reference on Jer