Win "A Place in the Sun: Green Living and the Solar Home"

2014-07-09T14:21:00-04:00

Need some ideas for designing a solar home or to make your space a little greener? "A Place in the Sun: Green Living and the Solar Home" could be a helpful guide -- and Archinect is giving away 5 copies to our readers.

Released this past April, the 228-page hardcover book by green-living writer and advocate Stephen Snyder includes an intro by John Hix of John Hix Architect Studios, over 200 color illustrations, and 28 featured profiles on green residences.

To enter this random drawing, fill out this survey by midnight Friday, July 11. Winners will be selected at random. Good luck!

Here's more detail into the book:

"The book vividly demonstrates that living green does not have to mean sacrificing comfort and living with less...Snyder demonstrates that the new solar home is also the new energy-efficient home, the new geothermal home, the new rainwater-harvesting home, and even the new recycled home. This generation of sustainable residences applies earth-friendly techniques throughout—in ...

The Homey Side of Louis Kahn

2013-11-15T15:25:00-05:00

A new book, “The Houses of Louis Kahn” (Yale University Press, $65), provides an architectural bridge between the personal and the professional stories, focusing on the nine houses Kahn completed, and designs for two dozen more. The story told by the authors, George H. Marcus and William Whitaker, is one of warm client relations, attention to the smallest domestic detail and a philosophical search for the best arrangement of rooms to call home.

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Win "A Place in the Sun: Green Living and the Solar Home"

The Homey Side of Louis Kahn