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Marianne Cusato - Get Your House Right - 9781402791031 - V9781402791031
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Get Your House Right

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Description for Get Your House Right Paperback. .
This title includes a foreword by H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighbourhood and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and don'ts of liveable 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781402791031
SKU
V9781402791031
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5

About Marianne Cusato
Marianne Cusato has received international attention for her design of the Katrina Cottages: affordable, durable home kits created as an alternative to FEMA trailer housing to help the Gulf Coast rebuild. The cottage won the Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award and has been written up in magazines and newspapers across the country, from Architectural Record and Cottage Living to Time and ... Read more

Reviews for Get Your House Right
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 ... Read more

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