Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect: Second Edition
Language: English
Published by Dalsimer Press, Inc., 2017
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- Title
- Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect: Second Edition
- Author
- Hirsch Jr. Aia, William J.
- Publisher
- Dalsimer Press, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0979882001
- ISBN 13
- 9780979882005
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 2.6 pounds
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Please read the many wonderful reader reviews to see how valuable this book has been for so many. The advice in this book applies to ALL homes. Whether you are designing a large house or a small house, and especially if you are remodeling your current house, the advice in this book will help you make your house become Your Perfect House.
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Presented in twelve understandable "lessons," this book explains in everyday language architectural concepts and design secrets that are essential to designing a dream home uniquely and perfectly your own. Beginning with an exploration of design philosophy, the grammar of architecture, concepts of spaces, and discussions of how to make spaces be appropriate and gratifying for the people living in them, these "lessons" explore issues of scale, daylight, making a house feel like a home, unifying a design, flow, and proportions. All concepts that are too often overlooked in today's homebuilding.
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About the Author
William J Hirsch, Jr AIA, NCARB is a registered Architect with over forty years of experience. He has extensive experience in custom residential design as well as in the deisgn of commercial, office, religious, recreational and industrial buildings. He has designed homes throughout the United States, including Hawaii, and has designed or consulted on homes in Europe and Asia as well. He is a member of the American Institure of Architecture and he past president of the Delaware Society of Architects. He received his masters degree from the University of Virginia. Hirsch believes Residential Design is a very personal and emotional process that has to express the personality and needs of the owner, not the architect. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife, Maureen.
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