The Place of Houses

by Donlyn Lyndon, Charles Willard Moore, Gerald Allen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805010440
• ISBN13: 9780805010442
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent residential design process reference. Maybe best.

Ever since its arrival in the mid-1970's as a reference for architecture students and professionals alike, this book has been one of the finest references, also, for budding homeowners as well. It places into beautiful perspective the almost anatomical linkage between large and small scale; neighborhood, house and room. It further discusses, eloquently, the relationship -- the emotional relationship -- between architecture and its users. Moore, et al, uses examples of old American neighborhoods, discussing the evolutionary nature of their success, contrasting it with the tragic results of uneducated development in suburban sprawls. If I sustain one distant criticism, it is that Moore slightly overdid the use of his own design examples which, though helpful, present less variety in style than would have been helpful to the central point of the book. But let there be no doubt, this is quite a little gem for *anyone* interested in what makes for exquisite personal residential lives. It is timeless in its core content.

Excellent

Primarily concerned with the design of residences that are appropriate to their settings. Lots of photos of Moore's houses