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 enlarge | Author: Cristina Del Valle
Publisher: Universe
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 93725
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 420
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 7.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0789313499
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.37
EAN: 9780789313492
ASIN: 0789313499
Publication Date: September 20, 2005
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 Makes Me Want to Go Build a New House March 24, 2006
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
I review a lot of architecture books, and this one more than most makes me want to go out and build a new house. The subject of the book is small houses. It consists of pictures and the story of some fifty houses, all of which are less than 1,300 square feet. Many of them are much less than 1,300 feet, indeed down into the 300-400 square foot size.
I live in a small house -- 900 square feet or so -- that's about a hundred years old. But compared to the layout, the beauty the simplicity of design, mine's a dump. I'm getting the urge to go visit a realtor friend. One thing about these houses is that many of them are on what would be considered hard to build on lots. And such lots tend to be cheap. There's a new architect in town that's fresh out of school and may have more originality than the older guys. Maybe if I give her this book, with a few houses marked. Hmmmmm!
One thing I didn't like, most of the bed rooms are on the second floor. I was in a house once that had a fire. The amount of smoke generated in just a minute or two was incredible. I don't want a bed room upstairs, if necessary I want to be able to close the door to keep the smoke out and get out through a wondow or emergency door.
Other than that, this is a great idea book. The pictures are beautiful. There's not as much detail as I would like, but adding detail would have to mean either fewer houses or bigger book, so I guess it's a nice balance.
 Quite good March 24, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a quite good book dealing with compact houses. I'm not totally satisfied because some of the houses represented are more an architectural exercise than houses in which living. However really good photos, nice ideas and a good rating from the quality-cost point of view.
Very resourceful book March 15, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Nice images. Very nice examples of simple houses made of low-cost materials.
 Ehh? Could be bigger. January 25, 2006
47 out of 56 found this review helpful
I am a minimalist to the fullest, but this book simply lacks depth. The "blueprints" are hardly viewable, let alone descriptive. Most of the structures resemble eachother and are spare, without furnishings or signs of life. I would recommend the book, "PREFAB" by Allison Arieff for bigger pictures, broader concepts and more in depth explanations. I suppose they were making a point by making the size of the book compact, but the few times I was impressed with a structure I would scour the three or so pages devoted to it and then it was over, leaving me wanting much more. Try classics like, "Pierre Koenig", by James Steele or "Julius Shulman: Architecture and Its Photography" by Peter Gossel. Ta Ta
A really fine little book. October 28, 2005
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
I came across this book and was impressed with the small size, the rigorous editing, the high quality photography and printing. The houses are innovative, practical, imaginative and international. They cover areas from Australia to Japan to New York. What unites them is their ability to be comfortable, elegant, simple and environmentally sensitive. They are for anyone who hopes to cure the McMansion virus.
Trump would hate this book.
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