CHOOSING A COZY HOME OVER A BIG HOUSE

It's time for a different kind of house. A house that is more than square footage, where each room is in use every day. A house that expresses our values and our lifestyles. Many residential architects design such houses of course, but there is still a significant and largely untapped market for them. Sarah Susanka, award-wining architect and author of "The Not So Big House" shares some insight on her "Not So Big" philosophy that is reaching this untapped audience and redefining the American home.

A PALLADIO FIRST EDITION FOR THE REST OF US

One of the best-known architects of the Western world, Andrea Palladio, designed many sumptuous buildings in and around Venice during the Italian Renaissance. His international fame stems largely from his treatise, I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (1570), four books on the tradition of classical architecture. Thomas Jefferson referred to his English translation as "the Bible." High-quality photographs of a first edition of the book are now available on CD-ROM from Octavo, with commentary by Robert Tavernor, a professor of architecture at the University of Bath.

ARCHITECTS CALL FOR BETTER SOFTWARE

Why are some architects disappointed with the productivity gains they were supposed to be enjoying as a result of using computer-aided design systems? Why does CAD seem out of sync with AEC business requirements? What can architects do to improve this situation? At the recent Congress on the Future of Engineering Software (COFES 2000), technology experts Kristine Fallon and Ken Stowe offered their opinions on the problems and the solutions. Next week author Susan Smith reports on their findings.