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 enlarge | Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 7360
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.8 x 2
ISBN: 0195019199
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.1
EAN: 9780195019193
ASIN: 0195019199
Publication Date: 1977
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Wonderful and succinct ideas for building design. December 29, 1996
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The chapters on "zen view" and "sleeping to the east" remain with me long after reading the book
Enormous value to home builders and designers October 8, 1996
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
We design and build houses and buildings professionally and are always interested in new ideas which contribute to a better final product.This book is for anyone who has an interest in achieving the highest level of good design in terms of placement, workability of all parts--inside and out--of their house.Its insights are on a par with what you would expect from the authors, and go so much further than a normal architect's communications with a client. The errors alone that this book will help avoid make it worth ten times the cost. Highly readable, very clearly organised, logical and to the point. For real estate developers as well as homebuilders, too, since it has a lengthy section of the elements of good city planning.An excellent philosophy of good design.
 Excellent. December 31, 1995
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The sections on designing houses are wonderful and should be of interest toanyone planning a home of their own (although the construction methods suggested here are fairly impractical.) The town planning partsare thought-provoking but seem somewhat utopian
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