The Place of Houses
by Charles Willard Moore, Gerald Allen, Donlyn Lyndon
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Art & Design, Nonfiction, Home & Garden
- DDC/MDS
- 728.3 — Arts & recreation Architecture Residential and related buildings Specific kinds of conventional housing
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- NA7125 .M66 — Fine Arts 2599.5-2599.9 Architectural criticism Architecture Special classes of buildings Classed by use Domestic architecture. Houses. Dwellings
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- English, Spanish
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- 6
