Architect Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big House series, was featured this morning in an article in The Roanoke Times. Roanoke was chosen as the city to host the international C2C Home Design Competition (C2C stands for Cradle to Cradle, from a book entitled Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things). She was one of the architects to judge the winning design which will be built in Roanoke.
www.notsobighouse.com/
www.*susanka*.com/
tvoivozhd---yeah, I wish I were in good enough shape to go talk to her. I agree with Gene---the houses she actually builds are two times or more larger than my mental picture of a good small house, and the damned things have a too-complicated roof structure, in addition to two stories---hardly a Usonian clone. I suspect giantism is still too firmly imbedded in the housing market for an architect to make a living designing small houses in the 1000 to 1300 square foot range.. When I was in the land development and tract housing business, most of my houses were 1000 to 1200 square feet. Used an onsite mobile home for sales, and it was so busy it looked like a doctor's office.
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