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I like this book for its content about different building designs to suit very many environments, situations and pockets. I recommend it to building and architectural students, lecturers, designers, town planners, architects, draftmen, contractors and the rest of the professionals. I am sending copies of it to Africa. There are 2 things I however do not like about the book. One is that there are no dimensions to the floor plans. The designers think people will build the houses from the book if the dimensions are given thereby refusing to order for the drawings from them. They feel that they will lose revenue by their own thinking. This may not necessarily be true. The second thing I don't like about the book is that the few figures concerning the floor plan areas (square footage etc) are only written in British units. This is not proper. The designers should know that this and other similar books get to different parts of the world using the metric system of measurement. Most countries of the world abandoned the British units still being used by US till tomorrow and are using the simpler and very much better metric units. The worst these designers should do is to use both British and Metric units in their designs. The best they can do is to work hard with various designers, scientists, teachers etc to convince the US governmnent and the authorities to abandon the obsolete bogus British system (which Britain that invented it hardly uses)at any costs, and embrace the simpler, more flexible and all round better metric units, thereby dove-tailing with the rest of the world. Michael M. Ogu.Read full review
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Great Book, hundreds of house plans to select. I would have preferred that the book had more color photos. Designs of homes were detailed.
This is a really nice book for the price.
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