TY - BOOK AU - Moore,Charles Willard AU - Allen,Gerald AU - Lyndon,Donlyn TI - The place of houses: Three architects suggest ways to bouild and inhabit houses. SN - 0030523613 AV - NA7125 M66 1979 U1 - 728.3 PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - Holt Rinehart Winston KW - Architecture and climate KW - Architecture and society KW - Architecture, Domestic N1 - 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 -- N2 - 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 ER -