Full of big, unfriendly, and virtually unusable spaces, this was (and is) typical of much of the suburban custom home building going on today at the upper end of the housing market. The book very clearly addresses why bigger houses are not better, starting out with a wonderful example of a couple that came to her in desperation after having a $500,000 house built for them that they just couldn’t relate to. Her practice and this book focus on residential design that addresses the way people really live, rather than our outmoded, formal image of house design that is left over from an earlier day and age. She is also a columnist forįine Homebuilding magazine. Author Sarah Susanka is principal of a 35-person architecture firm in Minneapolis and Stillwater, Minnesota that handles only residential design-a rarity in the architectural field today. The Not So Big House is a gorgeous book, full of inspiring photographs and imaginative floor plans, that conveys both the how’s and the why’s of designing smaller, more compact houses. Taunton Press, Newtown, Connecticut, 1998.
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