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Summary
Meet the challenges and opportunities of home design with spectacular success
Designing and building a unique, functional, and beautiful home can be a monumental challenge. Whether building from scratch, remodeling, or simply compiling a "wish list" for future reference, every homeowner will gain an incisive and expert understanding of home design from this inspirational sourcebook.
Innovative ideas, advice, and resources from today's leading architects and designers, and stunning, full-color photos demystify the design and building processes.
With dozens of working strategies, The Essence of Home illustrates how the seven elements of home design are applied by examining different houses by today's most renowned architects, including Cesar Pelli, Tom Issing, Peter Gluck, Richard Gluckman, Peter Marino and others. The seven elements of design include:
1. Design Origins: Choosing the site, selecting the architect and designer, communicating ideas, visualizing design, and determining budget
2. Site and Scale: How the home relates to its surroundings with respect to views, natural light, wind direction, and privacy
3. Language and Style: A vocabulary for communicating with architects and designers (for example, "French provincial," "light and airy," "modern," etc.)
4. Openings and Light: Doors, windows, natural and artificial light, materials for maintaining privacy and insulation, etc.
5. Spheres of Living: Design based on daily functions and rituals such as eating and cooking, sleeping and privacy, and gathering and entertaining
6. Flow of Space: The layout of rooms, how rooms relate and transition into one another via doors, hallways, walls and partitions, and stairs
7. Sustainability: Air quality, ventilation, energy, conservation, and safe materials
The book features:
* Inspirational ideas, advice, and resources from leading architects and designers.
* 200+ full-color photos and illustrations
* Working strategies for how to employ the seven elements of home design
* Ten residences designed by top architects
Whether you want to make a small home spacious, a large house intimate, a modern style comfortable, a crowded site private, or a sustainable design cost-effective, this is your one-stop resource.
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Table of Contents
PART I: SEVEN ELEMENTS OF GREAT DESIGN: BUILDING AN ARCHITECTURAL VOCABULARY
Chapter 1. Design Origins: Planning
Chapter 2. Site and Scale: Working with the Surroundings
Chapter 3. Lanugage and Style: Expressing Your Ideas
Chapter 4. Openings and Light: The Role of Windows and Doors
Chapter 5. Spheres of Living: Daily Functions and Rituals
Chapter 6. Flow of Space: Layouts
Chapter 7: Sustainability: Health and Environmental Concerns
PART II: GREAT HOUSES
The Water's Edge: North Shore, Long Island; Architect: Austen Grey
Classical, with a Modern Twist: Frankfort, Michigan; Architect: Jonathan Lee
Small Spaciousness: Montauk, New York; Architect: Tom Issing
Intimate Big: Pepple Beach, California; Architect: Cesar Pelli
North Woods Detailing: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Architect: Richard Gluckman
Two Glass Boxes: Marina Del Rey, California; Architect: Lorchan O'Herlihy
Rustic Glass: Millerton, New York; Architect: Peter Gluck
(and more...)
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