The place of houses : Three architects suggest ways to bouild and inhabit houses. / txt
Charles Moore, Gerald Allen, Donlyn Lyndon. With axonometric drawings by William Turnbull.
- 1st ed.
- ix, 278 p. ill. ;plans ; 25 cm. book
Include Index
Contents -- Foreword -- Houses in several places -- Edgartown -- Santa Barbara -- The Sea Ranch -- The place of houses -- Ours -- The three orders -- The order of rooms -- The order of machines -- The order of dreams -- Setting out choices -- Assembling the rooms -- Including the machines -- Fitting the house to the land -- Inflecting the scheme -- Mapping -- Collecting -- Yours -- Inhabiting -- Index --
With a new epilogue Richly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs, plans, and cutaway drawings, this is a book for people who want a house but who may not know what they really need, or what they have a right to expect. The authors establish the basis for good building by examining houses in the small Massachusetts town of Edgartown; in Santa Barbara, California, where a commitment was made to re-create an imaginary Spanish past; and in Sea Ranch, on the northern California coast, where the authors attempt to create a community. These examples demonstrate how individual houses can express the care, energies, and dreams of the people who live in them, and can contribute to a larger sense of place.
0030523613 9780030523618
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Architecture and climate. Architecture and society. Architecture, Domestic.