Get Your House Right

Name: Get Your House Right
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781402791031
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Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

By Leon Krier and Richard Sammons and Marianne Cusato

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Marianne Cusato, renowned creator of the iconic Katrina Cottages, champions traditional architectural values such as structural sense, aesthetic form, neighbourhood harmony, and sustainability. Get Your House Right is a definitive guide to designing homes that feel and look right. It features hundreds of elegant line drawings illustrating architectural features with clear 'avoid' and 'use' comparisons, serving as an essential resource for creating timelessly beautiful and livable houses.
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Ideal for architects, homebuilders, designers, and enthusiasts interested in traditional, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing residential architecture.

Sick of McMansions? This is a guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and don'ts of liveable home design.

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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 beautiful home.

Get Your House Right by Leon Krier, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, and Marianne Cusato provides invaluable insights for anyone looking to create a harmonious and enduring living space.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781402791031

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 August 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Union Square & Co.

Illustration: all in 2-color

Contributors:

Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Wales

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 1080g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Ben Pentreath Leon Krier Marianne Cusato Non-Fiction Richard Sammons

About the Author

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 Peoples Design Award and has been written up in magazines and newspapers across the country, from Architectural Record and Cottage Living to Time and Forbes. She is the principal of Cusato Cottages, LLC, a New York-based firm specializing in traditional architectural design.

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