Will Jones shows with specific examples what grace, dignity and taste mean in architecture.
It is a pity that not a single building from the expanses of our fatherland, not a single hut from the many museums of wooden architecture, not a single handsome Moscow house of the Art Nouveau era fell into the field of attention of the British specialist in architecture, Will Jones! Otherwise, this is an excellent quick reference book with alluring pictures (almost every house wants to live!) And a lot of various information about styles and materials, witty and elegant architectural solutions, door and window shapes, and decorative elements. After reading it to the end, you catch yourself on the fact that you begin to see differently, new fantasies and dreams appear. This book is useful not only for those who go on a trip to Europe and America, but also for those who are hatching plans to build a small house in their summer cottage. Here you can learn a lot of refined and simple solutions, which, in general, are still so lacking in the modern architecture of cottage settlements, which encircle our cities in a dense ring. Elegance, dignity, taste are the main concepts of the «intensive course», which will be useful to us not only in construction.
Ripol Classic, 256 p.