Rebecca Mead

George Ranalli is an innovative American architect, and his earliest monograph entitled "George Ranalli Buildings & Projects" is the first chapter of the enduring career, an unconventional modernist daring to venture beyond the rigid confines of International Style. The book published in 1988 by Princeton Architecture Press is a record of Ranalli's earliest "fusion" architecture projects including his creative residential adaptive reuse of Manhattan's vacant industrial loft buildings which helped redefine the American apartment, and a way ahead-of-its -time residential remodeling of a meticulous restored 1860's historic schoolhouse in 'the Point" district of Newport, RI. At the same time, he designed for new construction a magnificent cliff-hugging entry to "The Peak," Hong Kong competition; a multi-unit private housing complex at the very top of Victoria Peak which has aged gracefully enough to be ranked today among the priciest per-sq.-ft. residential real estate on the planet.