A House of One's Own An Architects Guide to Designing the House of Your Dreams

Stageberg, James and Susan Allen Toth

ISBN 10: 0517582147 / ISBN 13: 9780517582145

Published by Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1991

About this Item

Dust jacket has top spine edge and top corner tips lightly rubbed. Green cloth spine and edges with white lettering on spine, gray boards. 200 pages.

Seller Inventory # 016138

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A House of One's Own An Architects Guide to Designing the House of Your Dreams
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517582147
• ISBN 13: 9780517582145
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, Architecture, and Photography

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Synopsis

Explains how to select and work with an architect, discusses costs, site selection, architectural style, and the design process, and describes the client's perspective

Reviews

Using as a focus the shared experience of building a "getaway" home, architect Stageberg and memoirist Toth ( Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood ), who are married, offer an overview for those ready to hire an architect or others simply interested in learning how architects do their job. In "Part One: Working with an Architect," Stageberg guides us through the architect-client relationship, from how to choose a professional to analyses of each room in the house-to-be (a bathroom, for example, is greatly helped by a window, an entryway by a mudroom). In "Part Two: At Work on Wind Whistle," the authors recall the design and building process of their very own house--the "awe" Toth felt at discovering the site for the house, the melding of tastes (he liked things simple and elegant, she prized color and inventiveness). Examples of design and construction challenges lend a sense of reality to reading, as does a discussion of costs. Together Stageberg and Toth have created a useful book that combines the ideas of practitioner and architectural muse. Detailed photos prove their points.
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