Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Scaling down

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Matt Lawrence matt [at] technoronin.com wrote:

> I've just started reading "The Not So Big House".  Very interesting and I
> think it's very applicable to cohousing design.
> 
> Has anybody else read this book and it's sequel?  What do you think?
> 
>http://www.notsobighouse.com


Sarah Susanka, AIA is the author of this book.  I have not read her book
but have followed her career a bit (she's from Minneapolis).  Years ago
(1991) she did a workshop at a cohousing gathering using the widely
revered book, _A Pattern Language_.  I think it was her house that we once
toured on the Minneapolis Home Tour - it was narrow (30 feet?) but had 30
foot open spans so it felt big.  We happen to know someone who works for
her old firm, sounds like she spends most of her time speaking now - not
sure how much time she finds to design houses.

Fred

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