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Patterns of Home : The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design| Media: | Hardcover | | Author: | Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, Barbara Winslow | | Publisher: | Taunton | | Release date: | 01 October, 2002 | | List price: | $34.95 |
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Helped me make some discoveries about our own house |
I'm so surprised that there is controversy (yes! controversy!) about this Taunton Press Book that I'm in love with.
The Amazon.com reviews are brimming with Love it! Hate it! Pattern Language was better! Patterns of Home is invaluable! One doesn't often see this kind of public passionate display, this controversy, that centers on books written by architects...so I love it, of course.
(Yes, Pattern Language was amazing. But I'm a visual learner and I NEVER tire of gazing through pages of beautifully executed detail. So, I appreciate both books in different ways. See, I'm a uniter, not a divider. Whoops! Did I say that?! Shut my mouth.)
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Provides vocabulary |
| I liked this book agreat deal. It provides a vocabulary to describe the elements that make a good design. It is well organized and the concepts are easy to understand. I can now go into houses I like and don't like and identify why, as well as what I want to incorporate into our remodel. I followed this book up with Home by Design by Susanka. While organized differently, the latter uses many of the same concepts, and is a good companion volume. On the basis of reviews here, I bought "A Pattern Language". I think it is best appreciated after having looked at one of the two described above. |
| Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, Barbara Winslow - Patterns of Home : The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design |
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Beautifully written, accessible, helpful |
| For those who may not have the patience to work through "A Pattern Language," this book distills the most important elements and illuminates key aspects with photographs. I found it helpful as a suplement to "A Pattern Language". I think these books will improve any design. |
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