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This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability. Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to ...
9 ago 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
Integral to the book are its hundreds of elegant line drawings—clearly rendering the varieties of lintels and cornices, arches and eaves, and displaying “avoid” and “use” versions of the same elements side by side.“This ‘Rosetta stone’ of design will guarantee Cusato a place in the history of twenty-first century American architecture.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer“[Cusato ...
1 gen 2008 · (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
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.
1 gen 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
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
