A fascinating look at the latest trends in contemporary living. Features an array of remarkable ways technology has changed how today's homes are designed and built.
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"The book promotes a number of intriguing notions of building houses better, with greater efficiency and state-of-the-art building materials." -- The Seattle Times, September 22, 2002
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James Grayson Trulove has written, edited, or published nearly 30 books on architecture, landscape architecture, and graphic design. He is the author of The New American Cottage and The New American Garden. He lives in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Poor Execution,
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This review is from: The Smart House (Paperback)
When I bought this book I was looking for a source of "options" that I could apply to the design of my own Smart House. This is more of a coffee table book, not a useful reference. For some unknown reason the editor chose to print the text as white print on a black background, which I find almost as annoying as reading text that is entirely bold-face. On top of that the author chose to showcase several houses that are starkly contemporary and amazingly ugly in my opinion. In sum: this book has nothing much to offer the prospective home builder.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Belongs on a coffee table,
By Paul R Dupas (Kenora, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Smart House (Paperback)
I bought this book to get insight into the Smart home concept and implementation. This book has very little of hard knowledge, as far as smart homes are concerned. It does have a lot of picture, I agree with the other critics, IT MAKES A GOOD COFFEE TABLE BOOK. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone that actually wants to know about the smart home concept.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hmmm...I am not sure,
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This book started out on a great premise, to talk about smart technology, smart materials and smart design in residential house. Examples illustrated in this book are not bad, either. Layouts are there, pictures are there. Descriptions are quite well-written. Still, this book is lacking of that wow factor that manages to captivate our interest, or perhaps, to keep us reading from beginning till end. Perhaps, it is the quality or the presentation of this book. It is printed in Hong Kong and compared with books done by Taschen and Phaidon, this book is definitely of a more inferior quality. My conclusion is simply, hmmm...I'm not sure. Keep up the good work, though.
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