Trained first as a potter, in Japan, Sullivan returned to the States and completed Architecture School in the Northwest. Many of the lessons from his time in Japan would ever be a part of his design - scale and proportion, intuition, examination, materiality. And they would merge into the current details of his life and practice on Lopez Island, in the San Juans. Here for the first time, a full monograph on the elegant residential work of Sullivan - eight projects, most of them in Puget Sound - and all of them in the extraordinary, intuitive vernacular of an artist and an architect. Sullivan is not only the trained eye - he is the critical, philosophical master as well. incorporating light and landscape, site and history. Each residence sets as itself, as it meant to be. Beautiful wood and masonry details, long, soft roof lines, careful refuge, careful elegance, that is a Sullivan.