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This book addresses the tiny details that make your house look great or horrible. Specific architectural elements like entry ways, front facade, columns, dormers, arched windows, chimneys, and fireplaces are each addressed showing details to "avoid" and those to "use". Each is notated with comments on what was done correctly and incorrectly.
Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability.
9 de ago. de 2011 · Praise for Get Your House Right: “[A]n important and much needed book.”--Sarah Susanka, FAIA, architect and author of The Not So Big series and Home by Design “Marianne Cusato translates architectural language into the vernacular and, by doing so, into the reach of the average consumer, where such knowledge is guaranteed to do the most good….this 'Rosetta stone' of design will ...
- Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons
Praise for Get Your House Right: “[A]n important and much needed book.”--Sarah Susanka, FAIA, architect and author of The Not So Big series and Home by Design “Marianne Cusato translates architectural language into the vernacular and, by doing so, into the reach of the average consumer, where such knowledge is guaranteed to do the most good….this 'Rosetta stone' of design will ...
- Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons
1 de jan. de 2008 · (April 2013, Workman Publishing) and Get Your House Right, Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid, with Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons and Leon Krier, foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (January 2008, Sterling Publishing). She is currently developing a new series of designs with Clayton Homes, a Warren Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway company.
- Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons
2 de ago. de 2011 · Buy a copy of Get Your House Right : Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid book by Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, Leon Krier. Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and sustainability. She present ...
She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and donts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings--rendering the varieties of architectural features and displaying "avoid" and "use" versions of the same elements side by side--make this an indispensable resource for designing and building a timelessly beautiful home.
