GETTING YOUR HOUSE RIGHT
Notoriety has
been fast and furious for Cusato, who with no prompting, started drawing
designs and floor plans back in the third grade.
She recalled that she knew the
value of a traditional town before she had the words to describe it.
Now that her
sustainable and flexible answer to the horrid FEMA trailer has given her a national
forum, Cusato is on a mission to equip the everyday person with the right words
to describe – or better yet – demand proper scale and built environment.
Get Your House Right: Architectural
Elements to Use & Avoid (written
with Ben Pentreath Leon Krier and Richard Sammons for Sterling Publishing) is
her antidote to the McMansion.
“We know the
language -- eaves, soffits, etc… -- but we’ve lost the grammar,” she said of
architecture. “You see a modern structure, you feel something isn’t just right
but you can’t put your finger on it. “We show the common mistakes made with
window sizes, arches, double height entrances.”
STORY CONTINUES TOMORROW -- FEBRUARY 20
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