Présentation de l'éditeur
Nor will it be the last. But it is likely to be the most influential. This book challenges not most, but all of the sweet-scented nostalgia on the domestic scene. Despite its persuasive manner, it is going to disturb many readers who keep their milk in the latest refrigerator, drive to business in the newest car, but persist in thinking that aC ape Cod cottage remains the snappiest idea in a home. The thesis here advanced is that our way of life is undergoing great changes and that many of the changes are already here. If we accept that statement, and it would seem difficult not to, it follows that we should not let sentimental ties with the past stand in the way of getting the best house presentday technology and design can produce. The notion that the contemporary approach to design involves flat roofs and corner windows and the exclusion of rambler roses is one kind of nonsense this book aims to expose. Perhaps the greatest virtue of tomorrows house is that it frees the plan and therefore the family from the arbitrary concepts which have gotten in the way of gracious living these many years. Whether the talk is about windows or solar heat (of which you are hearing a lot now) or the living room, the authors have simplified their problems and yours by starting clean. They toss out completely the little partitioned cubicles called rooms and examine what goes on in a typical household in short, how we live and how we want to live. Having established the ground rules, the book then proceeds to explain exactly how to get the kind of house which will permit us to live the kind of life we wish to live. And this seems the right place to quote Mr.
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