The Art of Building a Home: A collection of lectures and illustrations

Chapter 2: PREFACE.

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A series of illustrated lectures advocating a reform of domestic architecture, focusing on small and middle-class homes. The authors criticize customary ornament and concealed construction, and promote functional planning, honest materials, and an architect’s involvement through furnishing. They call for handcrafted decoration, painted wall scenes, simple durable furniture, and spaces suited to everyday life and children. Later lectures address education in art, cooperation in building, and practical principles for designing small houses and cottages, with plans and plates that demonstrate economy, natural beauty, and domestic convenience.

PREFACE.

Some time ago I published a reprint of two of my articles with illustrations which had appeared in “The Building News.”

This little publication, though long out of print, being still constantly asked for; and the need of something to take its place being felt by us; the question of re-issuing it arose. Instead of doing this, however, it seemed better, as being a later and fuller expression, to collect two or three of the lectures which my partner and I had from time to time written for various audiences; and to add by way of illustration some of the sketches and photographs we had by us.

So came into existence this book in its present form.

BARRY PARKER,
The Quadrant, Buxton, 1901.