Shannon Scarlett
ASIN: B00DJQT9WC
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 110
Architecture design tips for builders, residential designers, and DIY homeownersSimple Rules is a new kind of builder handbook/design guide.Publisher's Weekly said:"This thoughtful and thought-provoking little gem outlines 25 crucial design principles that the author believes have been jeopardized as domestic architecture has become dominated by developers. Scarlett, who runs an architecture firm in Wellesley, Mass., aims to 'remind those in the building community that simple beauty and meaning... is still reproducible in new homes, and that many traditional building techniques are still applicable in today’s economy, and within current construction practices.' In this, she succeeds terrifically. Most of this attractively illustrated book consists of quotations taken from original sources published from the 16th to early 20th centuries. These sources are building manuals such as ...