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"Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, How to Read Houses: A Crash Course in Domestic Architecture by Will Jones is an illustrated field guide to domestic architecture. This sixth entry in the How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding house styles. The book explains the aesthetics of house forms ranging from elaborately decorated Arts & Crafts architecture to the purity of modernist homes." -EditorAtLarge.com
"Small enough to fit in a pocket, yet serious enough to provide real answers, this illustrated book is the ultimate field guide to domestic architecture." -Publishers Weekly
"This compact little volume will illuminate the reader's experience when visiting new cities, touring landmark houses such as Jefferson's Monticello or Edith Wharton's The Mount, and lay the foundations for a revealing architectural exploration of local neighborhoods." -Dexinger.com
Will Jones is a journalist and author. For more than fifteen years, he has been writing for architecture and design magazines, such as A10 and Frame in the Netherlands, Canada's Elemente, Blueprint and RIBA Journal in the UK, and Australia's Green Magazine. He is the author of several books, including How to Read New York.
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主要介绍住宅（house）从墙面、屋顶、地板等构件讲起，分析不同时代的风格元素，国内这方面投入研究的不多，适合专业人士及爱好者，很有趣的一本小册子。能够很好的构建对于欧美住宅的常识性知识框架。
Rizzoli Int'l Pubs. put together a very attractive book. The photos and drawings are very well done. By the time I read through the first 15 pp. something felt "wrong". The book begins by defining "types" of homes as single story, multiple story, attached, and detached; with a modern example of each "type" and one or more examples of poorly defined traditional hybrids (ie. Gothic-Georgian). By pp. 30 the author's bias against pre-Modernism became increasingly noticeable.
Regardless of whether the topic is building materials or interior design, the one style that is always represented is Modern. And when a pre-Modern style is mentioned it is often accompanied with a remark of a negative connotation.
If one wants a book that understands and conveys the various attributes of pre-Modern house styles, this is not it. If one is looking for a book that pays homage to Modernism and its detraction of all that came before it, this book will not disappoint. In case of the latter, one may want to also consider the author's other works: Modern Architecture in New York (2002); Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century (2009); Architects Sketchbook (2011).
This compact book was a handy and informative field guide to American domestic housing. Its clear and understandable text and illustrative images provided the organization and structure to fully understand the buildings in which we live.
A useful check-book that you can bring with you as well as a somewhat different textbook to help you learn the features to look for. Well illustrated.
I teach architecture and this is a nice reference book for the students to thumb through. The seller mailed it immediately!
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