Main entry:

Dickinson, Duo.

Title & Author:

Small houses for the next century / Duo Dickinson.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1995.

Description:

xxii, 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Updated ed. of: The small house. c1986.
Includes index.
Updated ed. of: The small house, c1986.
Foreword / Jim Cutler -- The Concept of "Fit" -- The Small House Expanded -- One-Bedroom Houses. Simply Extraordinary/Extraordinarily Simple / William Turnbull Associates. Forward Retreat / Roderic M. Hartung. Tree House / Arne Bystrom. High (and Low) Art / BumpZoid, Ben Benedict and Carl Puzzi. Artfully Done / Shope Reno Wharton Associates. Axis and Cross Axis / Alex Riley and Associates. Basilical Shed / Tigerman McCurry Architects -- Two-Bedroom Houses. "Do Not Use Residential-Style Elements" / Walter F. Chatham. Invisible Order / Arne Bystrom. Contained Quartet / Walter F. Chatham. "Sacred Centerline" / McInturff Architects. Gridded Cube / Richard C. Tremaglio. Gridded Wedge / Peter Forbes and Associates, Inc. A Simple Triumph / Nagle, Hartray, & Associates Ltd. Finish with a Bang / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson -- Three-Bedroom Houses. Grounded Aspiration / Dennis Wedlick. A Sweet Sunlit Box / Jeremiah Eck Architects, Inc. Highest and Best Use / Yale Building Project.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This innovative book provides you with the comprehensive, practical, and thoroughly detailed guide you need to understand and master those challenges. Following in the success of The Small House, this strikingly illustrated sequel is packed with ideas - ideas that will appeal both to the house-buying public and to the professionals in architecture and real estate who serve it. In Small Houses for the Next Century you will find in-depth analysis of award-winning as well as never-before-published projects ... including project histories, client requirements, site selections, budgeting concerns, construction approaches, and technical innovations; statistical analysis of residential space allocation - living space, circulation, bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens; future trends in prefabrication, environmentally sensitive design, and the response to changing demographics; and sometimes surprising perspectives from architects and owners as to why projects succeed ... or fail - with a wealth of specific case examples.
The American home is getting squeezed from all sides. Tight zoning restrictions, lack of available land, and cost constraints are just some of the forces driving this inevitable trend to downsizing. The forward-looking architect, planner, developer, contractor, or housing consumer needs to know everything there is to know about the unique challenges of small house design in the 21st century ... beginning now!

ISBN:

0070168288
9780070168282

Subject:

Small houses United States Designs and plans.
Architect-designed houses United States Designs and plans.
Maisons conçues par des architectes États-Unis Dessins et plans.
Architect-designed houses.
Small houses.
Casas Estados unidos.
United States.
Houses Architecture

Form/genre:

architectural drawings (visual works)
Architectural drawings.
Dessins d'architecture.

Added entries:

Dickinson, Duo. Small house.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81097
Call No.: ID NA7205.D55; ID:95-B2590
Status: Available