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Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid | 
 enlarge | Authors: Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, Leon Krier
Creator: H.r.h. The Prince Of Wales
Publisher: Sterling
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 32362
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 1
ISBN: 1402736282
Dewey Decimal Number: 728
EAN: 9781402736285
ASIN: 1402736282
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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Product Description
Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability. Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right—to the eye and to the soul. She teaches us the language and grammar of classical architecture, revealing how balance, harmony, and detail all contribute to creating a home that will be loved rather than tolerated. And she takes us through the do’s and don’ts of every element of home design, from dormers to doorways to columns. Integral to the book are its hundreds of elegant line drawings—clearly rendering the varieties of lintels and cornices, arches and eaves, and displaying “avoid” and “use” versions of the same elements side by side.
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 Disappointed October 29, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book provides extensive detail about the architectural detail of a TRADITIONAL house. It will not help much with a contemporary house. It has a ton of drawings to help make its points. It is basically all pictures and drawings -- very little narative.
Picture your remodelling first October 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Remodelling made easy with this visual book. I worked out some details on a remodel alongside my contractor using this great resource. The book is mainly illustrations of the various ways (right and wrong) to change your home without the use of an achitect.
Great resource September 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A local Architect recommended that I get a copy of this book. I am staff to the local historic zoning commission and always can use assistance explaining architectural concepts to applicants. This book is a reasonable articulate resource that alows an applicant to see the problems he/she might be having with a design. This book is easy to read and it presents clear and useful solutions to the mistakes that many applicates and their architects seem to want to make. I have gotten copies for all of the Commissioners and I am working with the Library system to make sure all of our libraries have a copy.
Well Done August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of work went into this book. The overall presentation and layout is friendly and easy to the eye. The illustrations are very effective and easy to understand. The language is simple and clear. What you get is a book that is very practical and that explains in great detail the dos and don't of design. While the focus is residential the principles can be applied to all types of buildings. Highly recommended.
Fun, exactly as billed, with a spark of genius July 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this book about a month or so ago. I have read through it once. While I will skim it again, from time to time, I'll be keeping it as an irreplaceable reference manual for home design or purchase.
The illustrations are gorgeous and pure genius. Most of them are NOT CAD drawings, but honest-to-goodness pencil illustrations, which all have a definite artistic flair to them.
The premise is simple: the Greeks and Romans got it right, and modern home designers try to ape their aesthetic without doing the requisite homework make awful looking houses. Once you read this book, you'll never be able to go into a rich new suburban development without easily being able to point out the painfully obvious design gaffes that abound. That's the downside--you're an instant architectural snob after one read. But the upside is that when it is time to YOU to buy or build, you'll know precisely what to look for and what to avoid.
Marianne Cusato has proven her genius with the "Katrina Cottage" design, which will probably set her for life financially. I hope it does, so she can focus all of her energies toward the classicist movement. I'd sure love to hire her to design my next home (if I could ever afford her now).
The modern architectural ethic of the last century, emphasizing a lack of details, machinelike designs, and a material driven ethos (steel, glass, and concrete) is absolutely put to shame by the Greek and Roman orders of proportion, balance, and detail. Hopefully, Ms. Cusato and her classicist colleagues can put the last few nails in that coffin. I could live the rest of my life quite well without having to view another gawd-awful building that looks like it was designed by Fisher Price.
This book is a masterpiece.
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