Housing by Lifestyle: The Component Method of Residential Design

This revised, paperback edition of a popular and successful McGraw-Hill book on housing design will reflect the subtle and dramatic changes that have affected the housing industry between the affluent 1980's. New case studies from the author, an architect with a growing reputation for quality housing design, will show the evolving demands coming from ever more diverse clients--from single-parent households to work-at-home professionals to people living with elderly parents at home. Improved graphics and photographs will help better illustrate some of today's more innovative solutions to kitchen design, family "home theater" rooms, basement workshops, and much more.

Thoroughly revised to reflect the dramatic shift away from the extravagance that characterized housing design in the late 1980s, the updated edition of this bestselling guide addresses the new, more functional priorities of the American household of the '90s. Hundreds of enhanced graphics and photos--plus all-new case studies of award-winning home designs--showcase the very latest and most exciting design trends for kitchens, family "home theater" rooms, home offices, and more.