Single Building: Type Variant House: The Process of an Architectural Work

As I unpacked this book to write about it here a funny thing happened: the pages dislodged themselves from the cover. There were signs of broken binding here and there in the book, but not enough to indicate that all-out binding failure would occur on cracking open the book. Certainly this can be ascribed to the glue binding the pages to the cover, but I wonder if it has anything to do with the overall design of the book, which has a number of gatefolds do display the numerous photos and drawings on a house designed by Minnesota architect Vincent James. Book publishing is a number-crunching affair, so I'd wager that the more bells and whistles inside a book – gatefolds, number of images, complexity of layout, etc. – the less money show more is spent elsewhere, such as paper, printing, and glue. This is all speculation, but it is a little bit of a disappointment, since this is an excellent, primarily visual case study of a well-designed (if super-large) house in Wisconsin. The book is one in a series of at least eight projects examined in depth. Of those it would be good to pickup ones on Will Bruder's Phoenix Central Library and Wendell Burnette's own house and studio. show less

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