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1 de ene. de 2008 · Get Your House Right Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid by Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, and Leon Krier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.00 · 1 Rating 5 Want to read; 1 Currently reading; 1 Have read
Destined to become a valuable reference for builders, contractors, homeowners, and homebuyers, this comprehensive guide describes the essential elements of a house, how they work together, and how to use them appropriately. It also shows how to avoid common mistakes during the design and construction process.
Summary: "In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Marianne Cusato explains why so many of today's traditional-style buildings miss the mark; describes the essential elements of a house, how they work together, and how to use them appropriately; and shows how to avoid common mistakes at every stage of the design and construction process"--Page 2 of cover
She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and donts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings--rendering the varieties of architectural features and displaying "avoid" and "use" versions of the same elements side by side--make this an indispensable resource for designing and building a timelessly beautiful home.
26 de feb. de 2013 · It’s not often that we include a book in our “Tools & Materials” department, but if you ask me, Get Your House Right (Sterling, reprint 2011) is every bit as important to home building as a hammer and nails. If author Marianne Cusato had used her well over 1000 detailed line drawings only to illustrate the basics of good design, this book ...
(April 2013, Workman Publishing) and Get Your House Right, Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid, with Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons and Leon Krier, foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (January 2008, Sterling Publishing). She is currently developing a new series of designs with Clayton Homes, a Warren Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway company.
- Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons
9 de ago. de 2011 · Praise for Get Your House Right: “[A]n important and much needed book.”--Sarah Susanka, FAIA, architect and author of The Not So Big series and Home by Design “Marianne Cusato translates architectural language into the vernacular and, by doing so, into the reach of the average consumer, where such knowledge is guaranteed to do the most good….this 'Rosetta stone' of design will ...
- Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons
