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Useful books and links on architecture and remodeling

Written Resources

Bob Vila's Complete Guide to Remodeling Your Home: Everything You Need to Know About Home Renovation from the #1 Home Improvement Expert, by Bob Vila & Hugh Howard (B.V.T.V., 1999).

The Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Home, by Paul Duchscherer & Douglas Keister (Penguin Books, 1995).

Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home, by Sarah Susanka (Taunton Press, 2000).

The New Cottage Home: A Tour of Unique American Dwellings, by Jim Tolpin (Taunton Press, 1998).

The New Family Home: Creating the Perfect Home for Today and Tomorrow, by Jim Tolpin (Taunton Press, 2000).

The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, by Sarah Susanka (Taunton Press, 1998).

Prairie Style: Houses and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, by Dixie Legler (Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1999).

Links (these links will open in a new browser window)

Fine Homebuilding Magazine offers brief articles by architects on specific residential design challenges.

The American Institute of Architects offers a database of AIA member architects which is searchable by project type and geographic location. To find an AIA member architect in your area, select "Residential - Single Family Homes" from the drop-down menu under the line "Or, tell us what you want to build." This site also includes many helpful articles about finding and working with an architect - just click on the "Residential Architecture" link at the top of the page. In addition, ProFile on the Web offers a database of architects. Click on the "Search" link, then enter your city and state, and choose "Single Family Residential" from the "Focus" drop-down menu.

Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big House and Creating the Not So Big House, maintains a web site at www.notsobighouse.com. At this site, you can order both of her books, and get tips about finding an architect. Ms. Susanka's design philosophy is based on "a growing awareness that new houses were getting bigger and bigger but with little redeeming design merit. The problem is that comfort has almost nothing to do with how big a space is. It is attained, rather, by tailoring our houses to fit the way we really live, and to the scale and proportions of our human form."