Publisher's Synopsis
The aim of the research gathered in this book is the use of redrawn graphic documentation on a selection of free-standing single-family homes in order to analyze the most significant changes in house design since the turn of the last century. Based on a systematic representation of eighty houses, it will examine their spatial, programmatic, technical and cultural compositions.The selection of the projects under study comes from the archives that Actar Publishers has built up over twenty years of publishing and reflects on the most fundamental changes the architecture has undergone. The documentation for each project, redrawn and examined in detail, will begin with the location and move on to plans, elevations and sections, accompanied by analytical outlines that sum up each project's main contributions. Finally, there will be a number of annexes with comparative charts including similar-scale drawings to demonstrate those paradigmatic transformations.
