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Title: Living Homes: Sustainable Architecture and Design by Suzi Moore, Nora Burba Trulsson, Suzi Moore McGregor, Terrence Moore ISBN: 0-8118-2469-1 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Living Homes shows "Architecture"
Comment: Finally! A book on sustainable architecture that shows quality buildings designed by Architects. All too often, these books show buildings that are not well designed, and detailed, and the quality of construction is lacking. I was very pleased to see well known architects, as well as lesser known architects' work detailed in this beautiful book. This book is wonderful to look at and it also has excellent, well written descriptions of each project.
It's a great read, and it is now in my personal library. I also bought one for the office.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful book
Comment: In the course of designing our new house, my family and I were looking for inspiration. This book gave us plenty of ideas and opened up new possibilities as to materials we could use that would be kinder to the environment that traditionally built homes.
The photographs are beautiful, and it was interesting to read what each of the book's homeowners had to say about constructing their houses. I had always thought that homes built of rammed earth or bales of straw were boring-looking, but this book proves the materials can be used to make great-looking houses.
Rating: 3
Summary: Beautiful, but lacking
Comment: I received this much-anticipated book today. True to description, it contains beautiful photos (one page was misprinted with a wide pink streak across the photo) and text from architects, owners, etc. What it doesn't have much of is anything more than brief or shallow explanations of HOW sustainable living takes place -- minimal floor plans (meaning only for a few of the homes reviewed.
For one clear example, Lake/Flato architects built a truly innovative vacation house, with the living area surrounded - wrapped really - in the bedrooms and bathrooms of the house. Only a floor plan can reveal their creative arrangement of the rooms. The house is featured in this book, but no indication of the remarkable new layout - maximum living in minimal space. (Look for the Contemporary Architecture series for Lake/Flato architects for more information.)
Broad but shallow is a good summary for this pretty, but not nearly as informative as I had hoped, book.
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Title: Hot Dirt, Cool Straw by Nora Richter Greer, Dennis Wedlick, James Grayson Trulove ISBN: 0823023362 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes by Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen ISBN: 1890132772 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Living Homes: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Integrated Design and Construction by Thomas J. Elpel ISBN: 1892784092 Publisher: HOPS Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Desert Home by Tamara Logsdon Hawkinson, Terrence Moore ISBN: 0873587960 Publisher: Northland Pub Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates (Real Goods Solar Living Book.) by Paul Lacinski, Michel Bergeron ISBN: 1890132640 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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