{"product_id":"2940045315845","title":"Simple Rules, What the Oldtime Builders Knew","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimple Rules is a new kind of builder handbook \/ design guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Finally, I found an architect's reference book which did not read like a manual!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA highly important design book\u003cbr\u003e\"In the same way current thinkers and writers stand on the shoulders of literary giants before them, designers are also deeply indebted to the long-gone geniuses\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust What Architecture Ordered\u003cbr\u003e\"Architects, Builders, Designers and Homeowners: if you are thinking about and\/or are designing buildings...GET THIS BOOK! no longer taught in architecture school... a great pocket reference in how to create a building that will last... It is the first in a series, so I cannot wait to see more!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by long forgotten sources, the design content included\u003cbr\u003ehere--timeless composition principles, elegant proportional systems,\u003cbr\u003ebuilding techniques and formulas for making buildings more beautiful--is\u003cbr\u003eintended as a guide for the modern builder who cares about aesthetics\u003cbr\u003eand meaning as much or more than the bottom line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this small guide a few select concepts and techniques,\u003cbr\u003esalvaged mostly from 18th, 19th and early 20th century builder pocket\u003cbr\u003ereferences and architectural guides, have been resurrected and\u003cbr\u003eabridged--or interpreted where possible--for practical use by the 21st\u003cbr\u003ecentury architect and homebuilder.\u003cbr\u003eSimple building principles and conventions included here were used in\u003cbr\u003ethe past to make places that were at once familiar and meaningful,\u003cbr\u003esensible and beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design concepts are equally\u003cbr\u003eapplicable to modern design. In fact, they are intended to serve as\u003cbr\u003earchetypes for a new modern architecture, to free builders from the need\u003cbr\u003eto simply replicate old styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSample Rules:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esimple RULE 1\u003cbr\u003eSTRENGTH, UTILITY, AND BEAUTY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All architecture should possess strength, utility, and beauty.\"\u003cbr\u003e~Marcus Vitruvius Pollio\u003cbr\u003eStrength arises from\u003cbr\u003ecarrying down the foundations to a good solid bottom, and\u003cbr\u003efrom making a proper choice of materials without parsimony. †\u003cbr\u003eUtility arises from a\u003cbr\u003ejudicious distribution of the parts, so that their purposes be duly\u003cbr\u003eanswered, and that each have its proper situation.\u003cbr\u003eBeauty is produced by\u003cbr\u003ethe pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the\u003cbr\u003edimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e†parsimony: economy of means, cost-cutting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e~Marcus Vitruvius Pollio\u003cbr\u003eDe Architectura, Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTRENGTH, UTILITY, AND BEAUTY\u003cbr\u003e\"As one principal figure should always stand out as the foremost, ...to\u003cbr\u003ewhich all subordinate purposes should contribute and lend their aid. \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esimple RULE 5\u003cbr\u003eTHREE DIMENSIONALITY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Always keep in mind the perspective appearance when designing the\u003cbr\u003eexterior of a detached building, and not merely the front elevation.\"\u003cbr\u003e~ Richard Brown, Architect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHREE DIMENSIONALITY\u003cbr\u003e\"From every possible view a really good building must have balance...\"\u003cbr\u003e~ Talbot Hamlin\u003cbr\u003e(image)\u003cbr\u003eequal distribution of detail and composition front and side, same roof form repeated, smaller side porch compliments front porch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHREE DIMENSIONALITY\u003cbr\u003e\"...imagine the building as it appears to a person walking all around\u003cbr\u003eit... From every possible view a really good building must have balance,\u003cbr\u003eand this accounts for the comparative failure of some of our informal\u003cbr\u003eAmerican country houses.\u003cbr\u003eThey seem manifestly to be designed with one view point, or two, in\u003cbr\u003emind; from these points they are good, perfect in balance and\u003cbr\u003ecomposition, but from other points the same buildings are a mere\u003cbr\u003ehodge-podge, and they lack that little accent on the centre of balance\u003cbr\u003egiven by a chimney or flower box, or some little point of interest, that\u003cbr\u003ewould have made the whole seem balanced and in repose.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e~ Talbot Hamlin\u003cbr\u003eThe Enjoyment of Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shannon Taylor Scarlett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072192626928,"sku":"2940045315845","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045315845_p0.jpg?v=1763972772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045315845","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}