A review by elizlizabeth
Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid by Marianne Cusato, Richard Sammons, Ben Pentreath, Léon Krier

Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
I don't know who this book is for because if you're an architect I assume you know all of this, and if you're a layman (me) the explanations are confusing, dogmatic and uninteresting. Most of the examples are of Western and particularly XVIII century or ancient greek housing, even though we are repeatedly told that this principles apply to all buildings.
What really put me off tho were Krier's "humorous" drawings which were childish at best and incredibly ignorant and classist at worst. Might give another chance to Krier since a lot of architectural projects that I like were based off his ethos but definitely not this book.
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