Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials 1561585335
| Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design |
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Two of the authors of the famous A PATTERN LANGUAGE list the 10 essentials of a successful home, including proportion, good light, outdoor rooms, and designing welcoming in between areas (such as porches and window seats) into the plan. Includes extensive photographs and detailed diagrams of 30+ residences. |
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| Product Name | Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design |
| Manufacturer | Random House |
| Product Number MPN | 1561585335 |
| Retail Price | $34.95 |
| EAN-14 | 09781561585335 |
| UPC | 978156158533 |
| EAN-14 | 97815615853356 |
| Specifications | |
| Title | Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design |
| ISBN | 1561585335 |
| Author(s) | Max Jacobson, Barbara Winslow, Murray Silverstein |
| Release Date | 27 August, 2002 |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Topic | Criticism, Drawing & Modeling |
| Weight | 0.5 lbs. |
| Deal first added on: | 20-January-2004 |
Latest 6 Reviews
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 "An interesting and well documented approach" | 2008-09-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3B1RKFY7T66ZF |
| This book is clearly affiliated to Alexander's "A pattern language".br /What is positive is the focalisation on house building : easier to keep in mind 10 patterns compared to 253 (some of these not so useful in this case, as concerning region, city or neighbourhood).br /For each pattern, a general explanation of the concept is followed by a description of 2/3 houses particularly embodying it.br /Beautiful pictures, intesresting and informative comentaries, clear layout.br /What is lacking is the explanation of generally why some patterns are preferred to others in any given case ; and particularly why some have been overlooked in the various exemples and how this could have been amended.br /br /J.B. Epinal, France |
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| "Great Patterns that Fit with Subjective Experience of Home" | 2008-01-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1T71F5KG62AWT |
| I first got this book when checking out a bunch of books on home design from the library. This one really spoke to me and stood out from the crowd. I ended up buying one copy for friends who are building a house and one for me... because SOMEDAY I am going to build my house... and just has good ways to think about what I want to do with the house I'm in and what I'd look for both as existing features and potential features of a new home. Concrete ways to think about how to create a home that feels like home. |
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 "it's just for rich people" | 2008-01-15 |
| - Reviewed By amazon8277 |
I loved the original, but this one is lame. One star for pretty pictures. In a nutshell, here are the 10 patterns in this book.
1. Be rich.
2. Own a very large piece of beautiful property.
3. Preferably in an environmentally sensitive area like a wetland.
4. Or own a house in a historical neighborhood.
5. Be very rich.
6. Build a small house, say 4000-5000 square feet.
7. Make sure your house is perfectly new and perfectly clean, but with mature landscaping.
8. Use tons and tons of wood to build your house.
9. Own several invisible cars.
10. Be one of the .001% of the people who can afford these insane homes.
Good luck. |
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 "disappointing" | 2007-11-16 |
| - Reviewed By yourrd |
| There may be a few good principles here but they were lost on me, amidst the overwhelming ostentatiousness of the houses. Do they think the only people who read design books are multi-millionaires? The houses lacked the very thing they were going for - a sense of home-iness. |
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 "Take what you need, leave the rest" | 2007-07-04 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3AXPE0V81UOXO |
The architect authors have matured since they wrote "A Pattern Language" (APL), and have made a large effort to extract and apply just the essential rules from the hundred of rules of APL.
True, PoH is a large, posh book of large, posh homes. The cost of the homes are far outside the means of over 99 percent of American families. However, these large designs include truly practical concepts that can be translated into more realistic homes.
Each design is far more useful and welcoming that what you might find in a bool of hundreds of houseplans. We are going to build an energy efficient home under 2000 sq ft, and we will refer to PoH to stay on track with the few essential elements. No, it will not have 30 foot ceilings over a huge common room (just you try and paint it!), but it will show the roofline and include other elements.
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| "valuable information" | 2007-05-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1I0910OJU7E2J |
| This book provides valuable informaion for those who want to pursue the perfectly built and positioned home. The concepts are fasinating and could be somewhat easy to put into pratice, however, the author uses large, VERY expensivly built homes leaving the impression that only the very wealthy can afford such superior design. This is unfortunate. I do believe that some the most basic concepts can be put into play in most homes it would just take some imagination and determination. |
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