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Summary
Summary
Designing Your Perfect House is the ideal guidebook for navigating the often mystifying process of house design and building. It's full of sage advice from a master architect about how to design the perfect house for you.Presented in twelve understandable lessons, this book moves from wonderful concepts to a finished dream home. Beginning with an exploration of the philosophy of design, the grammar of architecture, the creation of space, and discussions of how to make spaces be appropriate and gratifying for the people living in them, the lessons explore issues of scale, daylight, how to make a house feel like a home, unifying a design, flow, and proportions.This book answers questions like: How do I get started? How do I select a building site? What kind of house can I afford with my budget? How do I make my dream house just right for me?Other topics include: site analysis and selection, programming, schematic design, style, room relationships, budget, working with professionals, methods of contracting, and more.Numerous color photos and drawings illustrate the book's major points
Author Notes
William J Hirsch, Jr AIA, NCARB is a registered Architect with over forty years of experience. He has extensive experience in custom residential design as well as in the deisgn of commercial, office, religious, recreational and industrial buildings. He has designed homes throughout the United States, including Hawaii, and has designed or consulted on homes in Europe and Asia as well. He is a member of the American Institure of Architecture and he past president of the Delaware Society of Architects. He received his masters degree from the University of Virginia. Hirsch believes Rresidential Design is a very personal and emotional process that has to express the personality and needs of rhe owner, not the architect. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife, Maureen.
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Library Journal Review
The decision to build a new home can be daunting for an amateur. Architect Hirsch takes one through the process from idea to completion. Drawing many examples from his own practice, he explains the process and philosophy of residential design as seen from a professional's view and discusses what to consider when creating one's dream home. Recommended. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
