The Art of Building a Home: A collection of lectures and illustrations

About this book

These lectures and illustrated designs consider domestic architecture, making the case for homes guided by sound construction and shared standards of beauty. Rather than treating age as a guarantee of good design, Parker and Unwin argue that a building should honestly express how it is made. In their discussion of coordinated building schemes, local materials and restrained forms help a street hold together, while an architect’s oversight can check pretension. The plates bring the argument down to household scale, showing living rooms for homes with different arrangements of work and sleeping space.