Renegade Houses / Eric Hoffman ; illustration by Suzanne Clee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Eric, 1946-

Contributor:

Clee, Suzanne, illustrator.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

House construction.

Dwellings.

dwellings.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

153, [7] pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1982.

Contents:

1. Getting Started

Part One: New Houses from Old. 2. A Recycled Church; 3. Home Was a Water Tower; 4. Too Steep and Too Old-They Said; 5. Warehouse Conversion; 6. An Inner City Hideway; 7. The "Progressive" Depot

Part Two: Cooperative Construction and Innovative Finance. 8. Land Leasing; 9. The Umbrella Plan; 10. A Passive Solar Home and Nature Conservancy; 11. Building for a Sense of Community; 12. Operating in the Gray Zone; 13. The Rise and Triumph of a Quasi-Legal Landlord

Part Three: Elegant Individualism and Alternative Technologies. 14. A Nomad Comes to Rest; 15. The Treehouse in the Cathedral; 16. Willpower; 17. A Three-Story Tower Cottage; 18. The "Periscope" House; 19. Houseboats; 20. Houses of Pounded Earth

Epilogue: Other Ideas.

Notes:

"A Free-Thinker's Guide to Innovative Owner-Build Homes"--Cover.

"Cover design by Jim Wilson. Typography: Linotype Garamond by Duke & Company."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149) and index.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copy is "1" printing.

Other Format:

Online version: Hoffman, Eric, 1946- Renegade houses.

ISBN:

0894711822

9780894711824

0894711814

9780894711817

OCLC:

8763280