Designing Your Natural House
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品牌: Charles G. WoodsMalcolm Wells
基本信息出版社:Wiley; 1 (1999年1月28日)丛书名:Wiley-Vnr平装:256页正文语种:英语ISBN:0471285285条形码:9780471285281商品尺寸:21.3 x 1.6 x 27.8 cm商品重量:712 gASIN:0471285285商品描述内容简介"Everyone who designs a house should have to memorize the rules in this book . before being allowed to purchase a drafting pencil. Mac and Charles have managed to consolidate most everything they know about residential design with wit, Clarity, and excellent sketches" -- David Wright, Noted Solar Designer and Environmental Architect * Designing Your Natural House Charles G. Woods and Malcolm Wells As concerns about our mistreatment of the environment keep growing, the trend toward housing that blends with rather than works against natural surroundings continues to accelerate. This important guide explores and illustrates all aspects of how to integrate dwellings with their natural settings. The authors are leading names in the natural design field whose work has been inspired by the contour-friendly, organic style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Charles G. Woods and Mclcolm Wells offer a wide range of invaluable design tips for both constructing new houses and remodeling existing ones. Every design they cover is in accordance with today's ecological and environmental concerns. Beautifully illustrated and hand lettered throughout, this guide explains how to choose the best site design, lay out floor plans, landscape, and incorporate energy-efficient features wherever possible. You're shown how to solve many design, ecological, and environmental problems, as well as how to keep design costs as low as possible. Numerous before-and-after graphics clarify every stage in the design process, and do and don't examples help you avoid common mistakes encountered when designing natural dwellings. Included are 150 money- and energy-saving tips more than 200 tricks of the trade that help assure exemplary results, and sample house plans (which you can order) that promote further understanding of how to integrate designs with the natural site. Designing Your Natural House is timely, comprehensive, and visually appealing, making it an ideal source for architects, contractors, interior designers, landscape architects, do -it-yourselfers, and remodelers.作者简介About the Authors CHARLES G. WOODS is a well-known, award-winning designer of energy-efficient housing. He is the author of Natural Architecture and The Complete Earth Sheltered House. He is based in Honesdale, PA. Known as the father of underground architecture, MALCOLM WELLS is an internationally-renowned architect and the author of several other books, including Gentle Architecture. He lives in Brewster, Massachusetts.