Small Houses: Contemporary Residential Architecture

By Nicolas Pople

Book Overview

Small houses are no longer synonymous with cheap houses and lack of privilege. Instead, they symbolize a range of culturally coded values: compactness, efficiency, discrimination, discreteness,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789309742
• ISBN13: 9780789309747
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Nice to have in your reference library

This book has some good material to get the creative juices going. It is a nice collection of interesting designs that give a pretty good sampling of what innovative contemporary residences can look like. I would have liked to see more technical information and details.

Extreme examples

The introductory chapter, a brief history of architect-designed small houses (large expensive houses usually get this treatment), was the best part for me, as the author is very knowledgeable. Here he describes the groundskeepers' homes on large estates, and the later workers' cottages built by large companies, that started this category. The rest, however, is the standard thou-shalt-covet-thy-neighbor's-house pictures of very recent, attention-grabbing, expensive, glass-crazy fashion statements.