- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (4 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060745061
- ISBN-13: 978-0060745066
- Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 26.7 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,003,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Following up on the successful book "25 Houses under 2500 Square Feet," this title will continue to explore, though case studies, the joys of living in compact, well designed homes. The 25 houses presented in the book offer an extraordinary range of architectural solutions for designing functional yet exciting, dramatic living spaces within a small envelope. The houses will range in size from a few hundred square feet up to 1500 square feet of heated space. As with "25 Houses," projects will be located throughout the United States with some coming from Europe, South America, Asia and Australia.
Readers interested in building a primary residence, a weekend getaway, or a guest house will discover how architects, through the innovative use of common building materials and careful attention to space and light, are able to create dwellings that belie their small size.
The projects were selected for their excellence in design, innovative use of materials and methods of construction, each house comprises a case study that includes interior and exterior photography by some of the finest architectural photographers working today; drawings including site plans, details, and floor plans; and concise, informative text that highlights the design and technical aspects of the house.
Architects and architectural firms to be featured include: Lake/Flato, Olson Sunberg Kundig Allen, Archi-Tonics, Via Architecture, Dean/Wolf, Belmont Freeman, Hanrahan and Meyers, AC2, Frank Harmon.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this review by J Clemens on Amazon USA and feel is should be carried over to Amazon UK "As an architecture student, I usually have high expectations for any "architectural coffee table book" by James Grayson Truelove. But this book had some disappointing quirks. By far the most glaring quirk: The floor plan of the Methow Cabin (page 160) was ALSO printed on page 102 as though it belonged to the Cavehill Residence! Don't they have layout editors to catch such mistakes? Hey guys, there's only 25 houses in this book. You'd think they could match the right plan to the appropriate house. Twenty-one of the 25 homes had accompanying floor plans. (I didn't count the plan that appeared twice). Call me picky, but why leave out four plans when you included the other 21? For consistency's sake--at least. A few blurry photos remind me that a 3 megapixel digital photo loses clarity when enlarged to more than a 5X7 print. Nonetheless, I did not send the quirky book back. My complaint in a nutshell: Trulove's publisher could spend more time up front getting the layout right before rushing to print! The mistakes are embarrassing and unprofessional. "
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Was the editor on vacation?
31 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
This book has some interesting small houses, and does include floor plans, sections, elevations, and lots of photos (of varying quality). But the book is full of typos that anyone giving the book a last once-over should have caught: "and and", using "compliments" instead of "complements", and in one case (The Methow Cabin) the floor plan of one building was listed for both itself AND another, totally different structure (The Cavehill Residence). If you're looking for ideas, this isn't a bad book, but its size is unwieldy, its photographs in many cases just clearly enlarged from photos provided by the builders or architects, and there are more than a few errors throughout the book. I'd check this one out from the library rather than buying it.
46 of 49 people found the following review helpful
There are better places to spend your money
13 Jun 2005
Format:Paperback
This book was quite dissapointing. My biggest complaint is the idea of what is a house. A few of the buildings where guest houses or studios, or vacation homes. The title makes me want to see houses that people actually live in, with all of their stuff!
Also the breadth of style I find to be unnecesary. From log cabins, post victorian, modern...no matter who is reading the book, they will think that pages were wasted on the style they aren't interested in.
Some other books I found much more enjoyable for $25
XS : Big Ideas in Small Scale Buildings
Small Houses : Contemporary Residential Architecture
Also the breadth of style I find to be unnecesary. From log cabins, post victorian, modern...no matter who is reading the book, they will think that pages were wasted on the style they aren't interested in.
Some other books I found much more enjoyable for $25
XS : Big Ideas in Small Scale Buildings
Small Houses : Contemporary Residential Architecture
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
disappointing, but better than no book at all
4 May 2006
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I'm glad that the book exists - if James Grayson Truelove hadn't bothered to slap together this flawed survey, you'd not get to see these houses in any detail. But I enjoyed "Gwathmey Siegel: Houses" more, and even preferred other JGT archi-photo books to this one. Only 4 houses (of 25) had enough drawings and varied enough photos to see and make sense of the whole. Plan drawings are present for most of the houses, which is a step up from photos-only glossy books. Alas, they're small & unlabeled. In addition to the swap mentioned by other reviewers, p.30 is missing all its plans (typo/print-o), and p.128 has the 2nd/3rd floor plans upside-down from the first floor. "How," you might ask, "could this idiot reviewer possibly complain about so simple a transform, which he obviously ought to be able to figure out?" Therein lies the problem with this book: In fact, it *wasn't* obvious how the house was arranged, because the accompanying photos were not comprehensive, nor documentary! Such is the case for most of the structures in this book: either multiple photos show the same angle, or they only really document one room in an entire design. To be fair, perhaps I should have realized this from the product description: 25 houses in 181pp. means only 7 pp. each. But with such a low page count, "white-spacey" layout, and largish photos, duplication is inexcusable. (N.B. Of 25 houses, 21 are modern-style. Just in case you were looking for -- or trying to avoid -- contemporary.)
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