In his new book, architect Jeremiah Eck offers a fresh way of looking at the outside of a home. Focusing on five key hallmarks of good exterior design (for example, the house and site are one, the parts of the house are in harmony, and the details spring from the whole), Eck illustrates characteristics that all well-designed houses share, no matter the particular architectural style or materials used to build them. Eck provides an up-close look at 22 houses from all across America, convincingly demonstrating how to achieve a well-designed "face of home" that will give any house a unique character and personality.

The outside of a house is what we all see and remember. Yet few of us appreciate why the outside is just as important as the inside in creating a harmonious home. Americans lavish billions of dollars a year on interior design but seem content to settle for house exteriors that are, for the most part, uniformly monotonous or just plain ugly.

In his new book, architect Jeremiah Eck offers a fresh way of looking at the outside of a home. Focusing on five key hallmarks of good exterior design (for example, the house and site are one, the parts of the house are in harmony, and the details spring from the whole), Eck illustrates characteristics that all well-designed houses share, no matter the particular architectural style or materials used to build them. Eck provides an up-close look at 22 houses from all across America, convincingly demonstrating how to achieve a well-designed "face of home" that will give any house a unique character and personality.

introduction

reading the face of home

faces of home

northern light

a symphony of roofs

straight-faced

change of face

light and solid

two-faced neighbor

the shoebox challenge

house in garden

built over time

breaking symmetry

craftsman companic

see-through house

production perfect

two-foot cottage

rooms in a row

back to the box

the face of housing

past and present

open to the view

big and beautiful

house of many faces

split decision 

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