Diane Maddex
Forfatter af 50 Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Diane Maddex is president of Archetype Press, and helped launch and later served as director of the Preservation Press, the book publisher of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Værker af Diane Maddex
Wright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel Big (2003) 86 eksemplarer
Landmark Yellow Pages: All the Names, Addresses, Facts, and Figures You Need in Preservation (1990) 12 eksemplarer
Built in the USA 2 eksemplarer
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I list some principles from the book. Note that some are more universal than others.
Outside
- The site: Build with the land to capture light and views
- The horizontal line: Stress horizontals for a sense of spaciousness (applies indoors and out)
- Cantilevers: Design dramatic overhangs to symbolize freedom (meh)
- Roofs: Stretch the roofline parallel to the ground (really, this is just one form 'sheltering roof' can take)
- Chimneys: Avoid an undersized chimney on a big roof
- Entrance: Properly scale the entrance and add mystery (I like this one)
- Natural Materials: Tie a house to the earth with wood or masonry (this is like Alexander's 'connection to the earth' pattern)
- Walls: Use walls as screens to free outside and inside (i.e., walls are screens, not sides of a box)
- Windows: Don't simply punch holes in a wall for windows (again, related to the ideas that homes are not boxes, they are screened shelters)
- Standardized components: Economize on construction and material (good, sensible suggestion)
- Private spaces: Create a private side, away from the street (in Wright's homes, this was often take to the point where the public side of the home was almost completely closed off and the private side was almost fully open to the outdoors)
- Outdoor rooms: Bring the outside in with terraces and balconies
- Landscapes: Plant native materials to complement the house
- Carports: Build a carport to extend the line of the house (what's the best way to extend this to garages?)
- Additions: Expand when a house becomes too small
Inside
- Unity: Base the design on one central idea (good idea, but could be taken too far)
- Space: Design a house from the inside out
- Open plans: Substitute free-flowing spaces for boxy rooms (this idea was so influential that it's almost a "well, duh" at this point)
- Human scale: Size interior spaces to avoid intimidation (but make sure that the ceilings are high enough not to oppress my tall friends)
- Foyers: Create an entry to shield the living area
- Varied levels: Compress space in one area, open it in another
- Ceilings: Dramatize heights by fooling the eye ("High ceilings pull the walls in. Low ceilings push them away.")
- Walls and screens: Reconfigure walls as subtle dividers and screens (vital in open plans to provide the necessary definition of space)
- Window walls: Maximize views and access to the outdoors (I must admit that I am more a fan of 'zen view' than window walls)
- Clerestories: Place windows high up for privacy, light, and air
- Glass features: Use skylights and mitered corners to add light (mitered corner windows are awesome looking, but are they worth the added cost?)
- Fireplaces: Pivot rooms around the family hearth (yes!)
- Wood decks: Install broad ledges to make a room look wider (these are upper decks, soffit like things at the edges of rooms)
- Lighting and heating: Use indirect systems to diffuse light and heat
- Kitchens: Keep the workspace compact and within reach
- Dining areas: Set aside part of the living room for dining
- Built-ins: Build in furnishings to unify and free up space (I do love built ins!)
- Furnishings: Make furnishings part of the entire compositions
- Natural colors: Echo nature in the interior design palette
- Ornament: Integrate decoration into the architecture
- Harmony: Relate design motifs to the overall theme
- Simplicity: Simply the home to simplify life within it… (mere)