The House Book by Phaidon Press

The House Book Reviews

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  Sula

  A comprehensive coverage of house designs. I found myself more impressed and interested by the traditional vernacular houses and cottages than the modern designs. There were one or two minor factual errors in the descriptions.
  
  The biggest issue for me was the print size, which I think may depend on the edition of the book, but the paperback edition I read had miniscule print, each character less than 2mm so probably 6pt or smaller. I'm not at the stage of life to need reading specs, but I did need to strain my eyes to try read text this small!
  
  Personally, I think I would have liked half the number of buildings and for each building to take up 2 pages instead of one. Some buildings were hard to understand from the description and the picture chosen, and there were some that I know I really like but if I had first come across them in here, I wouldn't have given them a second thought due to the lack of information and the way it was presented.
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  Ron

  This is one of my favorite books to read every few years. Architecture never gets out of date.
  Imagine 500 homes from castles to teepees to Bucky Fuller.
  My favorite is the conical stone houses in Apulia, Italy, constructed without mortar so that when the tax collectors were due to come by, they could easily be dismantled (and later rebuilt) so that no house tax could be collected.
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  Elisabeth

  another great phaidon book covering a vast number of architectural styles.
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  Michael Heath-Caldwell

  Large, comprehensive book on architectural design and different architects and styles from around the world.
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  Manza Zitou

  Un livre à découvrir et surtout à avoir dans sa bibliothèque.
  Merci PHAIDON.