House in the Landscape

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568988238
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 208 pages
21,6 x 22,9 cm
colour/black & white
April 2011
€34,05 (excl. VAT)

House in the Landscape

Siting Your Home Naturally

Jeremiah Eck

Most homes built in the United States over the last 50 years were merely plopped down on a piece of land without any real integration of house and site. The result is a suburban sprawl of homes that are as uninspiring as they are environmentally unsustainable. House in the Landscape offers a viable alternative for landowners who want to build in a more thoughtful manner. Twenty-two houses by some of today's best-known residential architects illustrate nine site types from all over the United States. Each site, the issues it posed, the solutions the architects found, and the resulting house design are discussed and explained in detail, providing a wealth of siting information for the reader.