SIMPLE RULES What the Oldtime Builders Knew Simple Rules is a new
kind of builder handbook/ design guide. Inspired by long forgotten
sources, the design content included here-timeless composition
principles, elegant proportional systems, building techniques and
formulas for making buildings more beautiful-is intended as a guide
for the modern builder who cares about aesthetics and meaning as
much or more than the bottom line. Simple building principles and
conventions were used in the past to make places that were at once
familiar and meaningful, sensible and beautiful. In this small
guide a few select concepts and techniques, salvaged mostly from
18th, 19th and early 20th century builder pocket references and
architectural guides, have been resurrected and abridged-or
interpreted where possible-for practical use by the 21st century
architect and home builder. The design concepts are equally
applicable to modern design. In fact, they are intended to serve as
archetypes for a new modern architecture, to free builders from the
need to simply replicate old styles. Scroll up and grab a copy
today. simple RULE 1 STRENGTH, UTILITY, AND BEAUTY "All
architecture should possess strength, utility, and beauty." Marcus
Vitruvius Pollio Strength arises from carrying down the foundations
to a good solid bottom, and from making a proper choice of
materials without parsimony. Utility arises from a judicious
distribution of the parts, so that their purposes be duly answered,
and that each have its proper situation. Beauty is produced by the
pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the
dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
parsimony: economy of means, cost-cutting Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
De Architectura, Book STRENGTH, UTILITY, AND BEAUTY "As one
principal figure should always stand out as the foremost, ...to
which all subordinate purposes should contribute and lend their
aid. " simple RULE 5 THREE DIMENSIONALITY "Always keep in mind the
perspective appearance when designing the exterior of a detached
building, and not merely the front elevation." Richard Brown,
Architect "From every possible view a really good building must
have balance..." Talbot Hamlin equal distribution of detail and
composition front and side, same roof form repeated, smaller side
porch compliments front porch ..".imagine the building as it
appears to a person walking all around it... From every possible
view a really good building must have balance, and this accounts
for the comparative failure of some of our informal American
country houses. They seem manifestly to be designed with one view
point, or two, in mind; from these points they are good, perfect in
balance and composition, but from other points the same buildings
are a mere hodge-podge, and they lack that little accent on the
centre of balance given by a chimney or flower box, or some little
point of interest, that would have made the whole seem balanced and
in repose." Talbot Hamlin The Enjoyment of Architecture simple
RULES is a design guide book intended to assist builders,
architects and homeowners in creating better house plans, improving
residential design, especially exterior elevations, assist in
bringing character back to home design and in educating people in
general as to traditional design principles as they were used in
the past.
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