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Project Credits
The following is a listing of built projects planned or designed by James Wentling/Architects that appear in this book. They are listed in chronological order of their appearance in the text.
1. The Meadows at Riverbend, Middletown, cr, 1990 Client: Real Estate Services of Connecticut, Inc. Planner: James Wentling! Architects Engineer: Conklin and Soroka, Inc. Architect: James Wentling! Architects 2. Wheatstone, Lancaster, PA, 1991 Client: Charter Corporation Planner/Engineer: Rettew Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects 3. McConnell at Davidson, Davidson, NC, 1992 Client: Crosland Land Company/Davidson College Development Corp. Builder: Saussy-Burbank Planner: Land Design Architects: Various, some models by James Wentling! Architects 4. Summerfield at Elverson, Elverson, PA, 1989 Client: Stoltzfus Enterprises, Ltd. Planner/Engineers: Various, including David Jensen Associates, Derck and Edson Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects 5. Breckenridge, Durham, NC, 1989 Client: Cimarron Homes Planner: James Wentling! Architects Engineer: Murphy Yalle Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects
6. Old Farms, Middletown, cr, 1988 Client: Real Estate Services of Connecticut, Inc. Planner: James Wentling! Architects Engineer: David Mylchreest House Designers: Various, some owner-deSigned 7. Crystal Meadows, Durham, NC, 1988 Client: Cimarron Homes Planner/Engineer: Post Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects
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8. Downing Woods, Chapel Hill, NC, 1989 Client: Hoying and Huff, Inc. Architect: James Wentling! Architects 9. Heritage Fields, East Lyme, cr, 1993 Client: Nazarko Homes Planner/Engineer: J. Robert Pfanner Architects: Various, some designs by James Wentling! Architects 10. Providence Park at Antigua, Myrtle Beach, se, 1989 Client: MBF Homes, Inc. Planner/Engineer: Robert L. Bellamy and Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects 11. Brentwood, Bozeman, Mr, 1993 Client: Garrity Homes Planner/Engineer: Gaston Engineering and Surveying Architects: Various, some models by James Wentling! Architects 12. Buckwater Creek, Durham, NC, 1992 Client: Cimarron Homes Planner/Engineer: RUI Associates, Inc. Architect: James Wentling! Architects 13. Eirean Mohr, Salisbury, MD, 1991 Client: Larry C. Causey and Sons, Inc. Planner: Becker Morgan Associates Engineer: Phil Parker & Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects 14. Hidden Hollow, Durham, NC, 1990 Client: Cimarron Homes Planner/Engineer: Post and Associates Architects: James Wentling! Architects 15. Sweetwater at Indian Wells, Murrells Inlet, se, 1993 Client: Golf Course Marketing Corporation/International Paper Company Planner/Engineer: Robert Castles and Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects
16. The Greens at Hawk Valley, Denver, PA, 1993 Client: Charter Corporation Planner/Engineer: RGS Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects 17. Bentley Ridge, Lancaster, PA, 1989 Client: High Associates, Inc. Planner: James Wentling! Architects PlannerlEngineer: David Miller Associates Architect: James Wentling! Architects 18. Shady Grove Hills, Shady Grove, PA, 1993 Client: Foremost Industries Planner/Engineer: Don Cowman Architect: James Wentling! Architects, based on standard floor plans by client
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Chapter 1-Housing Yesterday
1. Robert A. M. Stern, 1986, Pride of Place, Building the American Dream, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 331.
2. Lester Walker, 1981, American Shelter, An IUustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home, Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, pp. 22-37.
3. ~_, America's Real Estate, 1989, Washington, D.C.: National Realty Committee, Inc., p. 30.
4. "PB&R New Home Survey, How to Meet Buyer Demand," Professional Builder and Remodeler, Mid-October 1992, p.12.
5. John R C. Turner, 1991, ''Toward Autonomy in Building Environments," in Housing by People, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd., London.
6. "PB&R New Home Survey, How to Meet Buyer Demand," Professional Builder and Remodeler, Mid-October 1992, p. 20.
7. Alan Gowans, 1986, The Comfortable House, North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1980, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. xiv.
8. Katherine Cole Stevenson and H. Ward Jandl, 1986, Houses by Mail, Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, p. 30.
9. "'The Country Dub District, Kansas City," National Real Estate Journal, February 1939, p. 20.
10. Ibid. pp. 26-33.
11. Ibid. pp. 26-33.
12. Laurence C. Gerkens, "Levittown, Long Island, New York," Land Development, Spring-Summer 1993, p. 40.
Chapter 2-Housing Today
1. Ray Watson, 1989, Presentation to AlA Housing Committee in Newport Beach, CA.
2. "Political Paradox, People with the Least to Fear from Crime Drive the Crime Issue," Wall Street Journal, August 8, 1992, p. 1.
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3. __ , 1991, Not in My Backyard: Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing, Washington, D.C.: Department of Housing and Urban Development, p. 4-5.
4. National Association of Homebuilders, Washington, D.C., 1993.
5. Gerkens, "Levittown, Long Island, New York," p. 40.
Chapter 3-Community Planning and Design
1. Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926).
2. Ed Drogarls, 1993, Interview with land developer in Lancaster, PA
3. Donald Appleyard, 1981, Livable Streets. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
4. Randall Ahrendt, 1990, Interview.
Chapter 4-Siting and Lot Patterns
1. As seen in "A Perfect Place," Notre Dame Magazine, Spring, 1992, p. 39.
2. James W. Wentling and lloyd W. Bookout, 1988, Density by Design, Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, p. 27.
3. Lane Kendig, 1980, Performance Zoning, Washington, D.C.: Planners Press, pp. 225-226.
Chapter 5-Floor Plans and Building Image
1. Thomas D. Davies and Kim A Beasley, AIA. 1992, Fair Housing Design Guide for Accessibility, Washington, D.C.: National Association of Homebuilders.
Chapter 9-Manufactured Housing
1. 1990 Census, American Demographics, January 1993.
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Bibliography
A A Selection of Books about Residential Design
B. Other Books and Articles by James Wentling
C. Articles About James Wentling! Architects
A. A Selection of Books About Residential Design
Alexander, Christopher. 1977. A Pattern Language. New York: Oxford University Press. A fascinating manifesto based on the theory that designs for cities, as well as for individual homes, can be organized with a collection of time-honored "patterns."
__ . 1979. A Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press.
__ . 1985. The Production of Houses. New York: Oxford University Press. An application of the theories in A Pattern Language. Alexander was hired to construct a village in Mexicali, Mexico. This book traces the sequencing oflocal participation in the design and construction process.
America's Real Estate. 1989. Washington, D.C.: National Realty Committee, Inc. An exquisitely illustrated look at the facts and figures of American real estate, inclUding hOUSing.
Anthenat, Kathy Smith. American Tree Houses and Playhouses. Whitehall, VA: Betterway Publications, Inc. Color illustrations of playhouses for kids.
Appleyard, Donald. 1981. Livable Streets. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. Includes behavioral studies of neighborhoods with different street designs. Also has ideas to control traffic through residential areas.
Architects Small House Service Bureau. 1992. Your Future Home. Washington, DC: AIA Press (Originally published by Weyerhaeuser Forest Products in 1923).
Babcock, Richard R 1966. The Zoning Game: Municipal Practices and PoUcies. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. An early identification of poor planning practices by local governments.
__ . 1985. The Zoning Game Revisited. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. An update of the classic original edition.
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Bibliography
Baldassare, Mark. 1986. Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation of America. New York: Columbia University Press.
Baker, John MJlnes. 1994. American House Styles. New York: w.w. Norton & Co., Inc.
Bender, Richard. 1973. A Crack in the Rear VieW Mirror: A VieW of Industrialized Building. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
&nevolo, Leonardo. 1971. The Origins of Modern Town Planning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Translated from Italian, this book looks at the European experience with town planning, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Berg, Donald J. 1990. Country Patterns: A Sampler of American Country Home & Landscape Designs from Original 19th Century Sources. New York: Sterling Publishing Company.
Berger, Bennett M. 1960. Working Class Suburbs: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia. Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press.
__ . 1971. Looking for America: Essays on Youth, Suburbia, and Other American Obsessions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Binningham, Stephen. 1978. The Golden Dream: Suburbia in the 1970s. New York: Harper & Row.
Bookout, lloyd, et al., eds. 1991. Residential Development Handbook. 2d ed. Wash1ngton, D.C.: The Urban Land Institute. A comprehensive guide for residential development.
Calthorpe, Peter. 1993. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. San Francisco-based architect/planner Calthorpe addresses issues pertaining to sustainable communities with the transit-oriented "Pedestrian Pocket" planning concept applied in his firm's work.
Chamberlin, S., and J. Pollock. 1983. Fences, Gates and Walls: How to Design and Build. Los Angeles, CA.: lIP Books, Price Stern Sloan, Inc.
Chermayeff, Serge, and Christopher Alexander. 1963. Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. 1986. The American Family Home 1800-1960. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Clawson, Marion, and Peter Hall. 1973. Planning and Urban Growth: An Anglo-American Comparison. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Corn, Joseph J, ed. 1986. Imaging Tomorrow: History, Technology and the American Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Davies, Thomas D., Jr., and Kim A Beasley. 1992. Fair Housing Design Guide for Accessibility. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Homebuilders.
Deck Planner: 25 Outstanding Decks You Can Build. 1990. Tucson, AZ: Home Planners, Inc.
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Bibliography
Dietz, Albert G. H. 1974. DweUing House Construction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Origin.a11y published in 1948, this classic explains the nomenclature and technical information of housing construction.
Dolce, Phillip C., ed. 1976. Suburbia: The American Dream and Dilemma. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press.
Downing, Andrew Jackson. 1969. The Architecture of Country Houses. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Originally published in 1850 as a pattern book for builders, this edition includes extensive text describing Jackson's residential design philosophy.
__ . 1981. VICtorian Cottage Residences. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Another pattern book with details.
Early American Home Plans. Farmington Hills, MI: Home Planners, Inc. A modern day pattern book by a large stock plan service. Includes text describing how historical styles can be adapted to contemporary programs.
Easterling, Keller. 1993. American Town Plans. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. With computer-generated graphics, this book traces the history of town planning.
Eichler, Ned. 1982. The Merchant Builders. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ewing, Reid. 1991. Developing Successful New Communities. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Land Institute. A case study overview of conventional new communities.
Fishman, Robert. 1987. Bourgeois Utopias. New York: Basic Books. A superb history of Anglo-Saxon suburbs.
Fleming, Ronald L., and Lauri A Halderman. 1982. On Common Ground: Caring for Shared Land from Town Common to Urban Park. Harvard, MA: The Harvard Common Press, Inc. A historical look at the evolution of commonly owned and maintained open space, with contemporary guidelines for design.
Foley, Mary Mix. 1980. The American House. New York: Harper & Row.
Gans, Herbert J. 1967. The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community. New York: Pantheon.
Garreau, Joel. 1991. Edge City, Life on the New Frontier. New York: Doubleday. A travelogue-like look at the impact of decentralized cities on human values.
Gehl, Jan. 1987. Life Between Buildings. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Ideas to make the public realm more human scale and social.
Gowans, Alan. 1964. Images of American Living. New York: J. B. Lippincott.
__ .1986. The Comfortable House, North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1930. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. A scholarly review of the initial suburban building boom. From 1890-1930 more homes were built than in the nation's entire history, in styles that included Bungalow, Saltbox, Shingle, Tudor and Gothic. These were "comfortable" houses.
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Bibliography
Grady, Wayne. 1993. Green Home: Planning and Building the Environmentally Sound House. Camden East, Ontario, Camden House Publishing.
Gutman, Robert. 1985. The Design of American Housing. New York: Publishing Center for Cultural Resources. This book explains who is designing our homes and how it is done.
Hayden, Dolores. 1984. Redesigning the American Dream. New York: Norton . .An argument for smaller homes for smaller households, many of which consist of single women or mothers.
Hegemann, Werner and Elbert Peets. 1992. American Vitruvius: An Architects' Handbook of Civic Art. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. (Originally published by the Architectural Book Publishing Company in 1992).
Herbert, Gilbert. 1984. The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.
Hirschman, Jessica Elin. 1993. Porches and Sunrooms. New York: Michael Friedman Publishing Group. A color idea book.
Hughes, James W, and George Sternlieb. 1987. The Dynamics of America's Housing. Rutgers, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research. A comprehensive look at the driving forces behind housing production cycles.
Jackson, Kenneth T. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. A well-researched and thoughtful history of suburbanization in the United States.
Jacobson, Max, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow. 1990. The Good House: Contrast as a Design Tool. Newton, Cf: The Taunton Press. A collection of design approaches to satisfY more human and emotional needs in residential architecture, written by the co-authors of A Pattern Language.
JakIe, John A, Robert W Bastian, and Douglas K Meyer. 1989. Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to Mississippi Valley. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Jandl, H. Ward. 1991. Yesterday's Houses of Tomorrow: Innovative Homes 1850 to 1950. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press. A case study look at homes that introduced new ideas about housing.
Jarvis, Frederick D. 1994. Site Planning and Community Design for Great Neighborhoods. Washington, DC: Home Builder Press.
Jones, Robert T. 1929 (1987). Authentic Small Houses of the Twenties. New York: Dover.
Katz, Peter. 1994. The New Urbanism, Toward an Architecture of Community. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Kelly, Barbara M. 1993. Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany, NY: State University of N.Y. Press. This book looks beyond the original designs of Levittown to see how residents adapted their homes over time.
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Kemp, Jim. 1990. American Vernacular. WashJngt:on, D.C.: AlA Press. Examines over 50 indigenous styles of American design.
Kendig, Lane. 1980. Performance Zoning. WashJngt:on, D.C.: Planners Press. A wonderful argument for basing development controls on performance standards such as floor area ratios and impervious cover-instead of on conventional controls such as minimum lot sizes and seihacks.
King, A D. 1984. The Bungalow. London: Butterworth.
Kostof, Spiro. 1987. America by Design. New York: Oxford University Press. Companion to the PBS television series, this book discusses housing as part of the overall built environment.
Krieger, Alex, with William Lennertz. 1991. Towns and Towmaking Principles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design. Based on a study of the Duany/PlaterZyberk team and their work at Seaside.
Krier, Rob. 1983. Elements of Architecture. London: Architectural Design Publications. A typological catalog of the elements of architecture.
Lancaster, Clay. 1985. The American Bungalow, 1880-1930. New York: Abbeville Press. Traces the origins of the beloved Bungalow, which served as a prototype affordable home for generations.
Land Development. 1987. WashJngt:on, D.C.: National Association of Homebuilders. An overview of the technical challenges in the land development process.
Langdon, Philip. 1994. A Better Place to Live, Reshaping the Suburb. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
Langdon, Philip. 1987. American Houses. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. A rich color pictorial with insightful commentary on all types of housing.
McAlester, Virginia, and Lee McAlester. 1984. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc. A comprehensive guide to historical residential architecture in America.
Mohney, David, and Keller Easterling, eds. 1991. Seaside: Making a Town in America. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Provides a history of the town of Seaside, zOning and building codes, and over 120 of the buildings constructed.
Mohr, Merilyn. 1988. Home Playgrounds. Scarborough, Ontario: Camden House/Firefly Books.
Moore, Charles, Gerald Allen, and Donlyn Lyndon. 1974. The Place of Houses. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. A classic and poetic look at the residential design process.
Moore, Charles, et al. 1983. Home Sweet Home: American Domestic Vernacular Architecture. New York: Rizzoli International Publications.
Moore, Collen Grogan. 1985. PUD's in Practice. WashJngt:on, D.C.: Urban Land Institute. Explains the PUD concept and applications.
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Mutlow, John V. ed. 1992. The American House: Design for Living. Washington, OC: AlA Press. A current look at American residential planning and design. Sponsored by the AlA Housing Committee, examples were selected by a jury.
Naisbitt, John. 1982. Megatrends. New York: Warner Books. A bestselling book that reviews the impact of technology and information on our society.
__ . 1990. Megatrends 2000. New York: Avon Books. More trends to be considered in this update.
Nolon, John R, and Duo Dickenson. 1990. Common Walls/Private Homes. New York: McGraw-IDll, Inc. Case studies of successful multifa.mily prototypes with commentary.
Not In My Backyard: Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing. 1991. Washington, D.C.: Department of Housing and Urban Development. A look at the real reasons for the lack of affordable housing in America-local government and over-regulation.
__ . 1985. Outdoor Playhouses and Toys. New York: Sterling Publishing.
Pearson, David. 1989. The Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious and Ecologically Sound Home Environment. New York: Fireside/Simon and Schuster. An excellent book on healthy residential design issues.
The Pedestrian Pocket Book. 1989. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Essays and drawings developed at a design charette held at the University of Washington in 1988. The Pedestrian Pocket is a small 50- to 1oo-acre model community that balances housing with jobs, linked by mass transit to a larger metropolitan area.
Prowler, Donald. 1985. Modest Mansions. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press. A practical guide to designing smaller, more modest individual homes.
Questions and Answers about Building. 1989. Newton, Cf: The Taunton Press, Inc. Published by the same group that produces Fine Homebuilding magazine, this book addresses technical details of building homes.
Ramsey, Dan. 1992. Fences, Decks and Other Backyard Projects. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books (McGraw-IDll).
Residential Streets. 1990. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute. A look at how streets can be built with more respect for human scale and the environment. Includes practical engineering information on reasonable roadways.
Rowe, Peter G. 1991. Making A Middle Landscape. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. A wellresearched, impartial look at suburban metropolitan developments. Written by the Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
Rowe, Peter G., and John Michael Desmond. 1986. The Shape and Appearance of the Modem Single Family House. Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies of MIT and Harvard Universities.
Rybczynski, Witold. 1986. Home, A Short History of an Idea. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc. The idea is comfort-this book is a study of comfort as an ideal in house design.
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__ . 1989. The Most Beautifol House in the World. New York: Viking. The most beautiful house in the world is the house one builds for oneself. This is a book about that process inspired by the author's own experience.
__ . 1993. Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture. New York: Penguin Group.
Shuttner, Scoot. 1993. Building and Designing Decks. Newtown, Cf: Taunton Press, Inc.
Seamon, David Ed. 1993. DweUing, Seeing and Designing. Albany, NY: State of New York Press.
Sedan, Paul S. 1992. The Factory-Crafted House: New VISions of Affordable Home Design. Old Saybrook, Cf: The Globe Pequot Press.
Sergeant, John. 1984. Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses: Designs for Moderate Cost One-Family Homes. New York: Whitney Library of Design.
Sherwood, Gerald E., and Robert C. Stroh. 1988. Wood Frame House Construction. Armonk, NY: Armonk Press. Available through the NAHB Bookstore, this book is an excellent technical guide to residential construction details.
Solomon, Daniel. 1993. ReBuilding. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. San Francisco-based architect and planner's views of suburbia with recommend solutions.
Stein, Clarence. 1957 and 1966. Toward New Towns for America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Stem, Robert A M. 1981. The Anglo-American Suburb. London: Architectural Design Publications, Ltd. This book summarizes prototypical suburbs in England and America starting in the early nineteenth century.
__ . 1986. Pride of Place, Building the American Dream. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Companion to the PBS television series, this lavishly illustrated book addresses housing and community design along with other building types.
Sternlieb, George. 1986. Patterns of Development. Rutgers, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research. A good explanation of how the national housing market is impacted by demographics, migration and economic cycles.
Stevenson, Katherine Cole, and H. Ward Jandl. 1986. Houses by Mail. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press. A listing of home designs that were available through Sears, Roebuck and Company from 1908 to 1940.
Stiles, David. 1993. Sheds: The Do-it-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders. Charlotte, Vf: Camden House Publishing. Includes some great ideas for "accessory structures."
The Backyard Builder's Book of Outdoor Building Projects. 1987. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, Inc.
Tomioka, Selshiro, and Ellen Miller Tomioka. 1984. Planned Unit Developments: Design and Regional Impact. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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Van Buren, Maurie. 1991. House Styles at a Glance. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press. A guidebook to identify historical housing styles.
Van der Ryn, Sim, and Peter Calthorpe. 198(>' Sustainable Communities. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Chili Books. Along with other contributors, the authors describe enviromentally responsible community design issues in the urban and suburban context.
Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven lzenour. 1972. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
__ . 1992. Venturi &ott Brown & Associates, On Houses and Housing. New York: St. Martins Press. A look at how a respected design firm approaches residential commissions.
Wachs, Martin, and Margaret Crawford, eds. 1992. The Car and the City: The Automobile, The Built Environment and Daily Urban Life, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Walker, Lester. 1993. The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press.
Walker, Lester. 1981. American Shelter, An mustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press. The author explains the history of American housing with detailed sketches and text. A well-researched, comprehensive, unique reference book.
Wallis, Allen. 1991. Wheel Estate. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Weaver, Gerald L. 1993. Fireplace Designs. Cincinnati, OH: Betterway Books.
Weiss, Marc A 1987. The Rise of the Community Builders. New York: Columbia University Press. A scholarly review of the transition in American housing production from small individual builders to large scale community developers.
Wentling, James w., and lloyd W. Bookout. 1988. Density by Design. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute.
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Wright, Gwendolyn. 1981. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. A unique view of the domestic environment in America, from the New England town through industrial villages to suburban sprawl and public housing.
Yaro, Robert D., Randall G. Arendt, Harry L. Dodson, and Elizabeth A Brabec. 1988. Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and Development. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. An award-winning deSign manual with compelling sketches and drawings illustrating the benefits of cluster development.
Your Future Home: Architect Designed Houses of the Early 1920s. 1992. Washington, D.c.: AIA Press.
B. Other Books and Articles by James Wentling
1988
"Designs Make Tomorrow's Affordable Housing Possible Today." Multi-Housing News. May 1988. pp. 36-37.
"Density by Design." Urban Land. June 1988. pp. 10-15.
"Small Lot Housing: Innovation or Instant Slums?" Journal of Real Estate Development. Winter 1988, Vol. 3, No.3. pp. 45-53.
Density by Design. James W. Wentling and lloyd W. Bookout, eds. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Land Institute. 1988.
"The Advent of Traditionalism in Community Planning." Land Development. December 1988. pp. 23-27.
1990
Housing by Lifestyle, The Component Method of Residential Design. New York: McGrawHill. 1990.
"A Simple Formula for Producing Affordable Detached Housing." Urban Land. May 1990. pp. 2-5.
"Successful Floor Plans for Small Houses." The Journal of Light Construction. October 1990.
1991
"Small Lot HOUSing Typology." Progressive Architecture. June 1991. pp. 45-49.
"Affordability Concerns Will Dominate New Rental Housing Designs." Sun Coast/Architect Builder. October 1991. pp. 26-28.
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1992
"Can We Afford Not to Build 'affordable' Housing." Tn-State Real Estate Journal. January 17, 1992.
c. Articles About James Wentling/Architects
1990
"Small-Lot Magic" (Breckenridge). Builder. July 1990. pp. 120-121.
"Builders Choice Awards" (Breckenridge). Builder. October 1990. p. 180.
1991
"Pennsylvania Townhomes Retain Heritage of the Land" (Summerfield at Elverson). Sun Coast Architect/Builder. April 1991. pp. 32-33.
"A Townlike Plan Sells in the Suburbs" (Bentley Ridge). Urban Land. June 1991. pp. 30-31.
1992
"North by Southwest" (Meadows at Riverbend). Builder. January 1992. pp. 260-261.
"Traditional Styling Reflected in Compact Zero-Lot-Line Plan" (Stratton Park). Professional Builder and Remodeler. January 1992. p. 31.
"Affordability Comes in Regionally Appropriate Dress" (Hidden Hollow). Sun Coast Architect/Builder. January 1992. p. 21.
"America's Best Affordable New Homes" (Stratton Park). Better Homes and Gardens. May 1992. p. 88.
"Builders Best" (Buckwater Creek). Builder. July 1992. p. 106.
"Pennsylvania Townhomes Combine Style and Grace with Efficiency" (Coventry Pointe). Sun Coast Architect/Builder. November 1992. pp. 18-19.
The American House: Design for Living (Breckenridge). Washington, D.C.: AlA Press. 1992. pp. 68-69.
1993
"A Window for Architects: James Wentling/Architects." Philadelphia Architect. July 1993.
"Massachusetts Law Promotes Mixed-Income Housing" (Benton Estates). Urban Land. October 1993. pp. 10-11.
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1994
"A New Deal" (McConnell). Builder. January 1994. pp. 210-211.
"Profiles: Some Responses by Architects" (Affordable Housing). Inland Architect. January/February 1994. pp. 27-33.
"How to Give Productlng Housing a Custom Look" (Wheatstone). Professional Builder. May 1994. pp. 104-106.
"Portfolio-McConnell at Davidson." Land Development. Spring/Summer 1994. pp. 30-32.
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Index
Accessibility,l64 Accessory structures, 125-129 Adaptability, 164-165, 168-169 Affordable housing, 1, 49, 68, 104, 116, 121,
133-135,137,139,144,149,158,186-187,192,194,215,232,235,255,260-261,267
Affordability, 29, 115, 130-131,237 Alcoves, 167, 195 Alexander, Christopher, 48-49 A1ladin Homes, 20 Alleys, 113-114 Amenities, 250, 253-254
addresses, 237 balconies, 236, 241 clubhouses, 252 green spaces, 249, 252 open spaces, 251-252, 254 pools,252
American housing, 24, 267 American Indians, 3 American Society of Civil Engineers, 63 American suburbs, 7 Anshen & Allen Architects, 98 Approval process, 32, 53 Architecture, 51 Architectural controls, 74, 77 Arches, 226 Archways, 195-196 Asymmetry, 139 Atrium houses, 97-00 Attics, 176
attic windows, 206 AutomobUe suburbs, 16 Awnings,121
Baby boomers, 49 ~,145,151,201,221-222 Balloon framing, 133 Basements, 198 Bassenian/Lagoni Architects, 110, 114
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Baths, 34-35 Bay windows, 192-194 Bedroom communities, 23 Bentley Ridge, 247, 249-250, 252 Berlms, Barry, 18, 217~18 Berlms Group Architects, 104, 106, 263, 266 Bookshelves, 195 ~bay,l94 Br~tarea,167,180, 186,192 Breckenridge, 64, 153-154 Brentwood, 135 Breezeway, 91 Buckwater Creek, 143 Built-inS, 194
ledges, 195 built-in seating, 186 built-in shelving, 183, 195
Building envelope, 81, 192, 215 Burlington and Quincy railroad, 15
Cabanas, 129 Cabinetry, 184 California Meadows, 71 Calthorpe Associates, 42, 45-46, 49, 53, 102-
103 C8rpoorts,91,109-111 Center for Environmental Structure, 48 Character, 201 Charleston houses, 155 Chesapeake Bay Colonies, 1~ Children's room, 166 Churchill, Sir Winston, 85 Chimney,147,180,219,2~,264
frame chimneys, 229 Circulation, 185
circular, 158-159 dead-end,158-159
Civil engineering, 51-52 Closets, 167, 176, 186 Cluster housing, 68 Cocooning, 33
Colonial America, 4 Color, 227, 238-239, 264
accent color, 228 roof color, 227 skin color, 227 trim color, 228
Columns, 195-197, 226 Commercial, 255-257 Commons, 74 Community, 119 Components, 149 Centex Corporation, 38 Country Club District, 20-22, 40, 72 Country kitchen, 171, 173 Country Living Homes, 48 ~ds,105,107 ~d homes, 125, 234 Crime, 34 Crystal Meadows, 76 Cul-de-sac streets, 65 Custom homes, 180
Davis, Robert, 43, 45 Daylight basement, 172 Decks/patios, 119-123, 155,241,248 Den~brary,166-167,169,180,184,195
Density, 31-S3, 35, 37 Design guidelines, 75 Design Traditions, Steve Fuller, 10,47-48,90 DeUrifing, 201, 204, 226, 228-230,260, 264 ~room, 164, 167, 169, 193,195 Disneyland, 55 Dormer rooms, 189, 191-192,208 Downing, AJ., 10, 37 Downing Woods, 80 Duany/Plater-Zyberk Architects, 42-43, 53,
75 Dutch door, 5
Eating nooks, 186-187, 194 EDI Architecture, 67 Eichler, Joseph, 98-99, 155, 157 Eirean Mohr, 155-156 Elevations, 145-148,202-204,229 English basements, 174 Entry, 104,106-107,109 doo~202-203,239,262
front door, 107,236-237,243 Europeanists, 101-102, 104 Eyebrow streets, 66
Facades, 202, 204, 226, 229, 237-238,245, 261-262
Factory suburbs, 22 Fair Housing Act of 1991, 164 Family room, 163, 167, 180 Farmhouses, 7, 127, 155-156
Index
286
Farmview, 7S-79 Federal-Aid Highway-Act, 23 Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 30 Fences, 122-125 Fields Point, 61 Fireplace, 162, 179, 180-183, 185-186 Flexible floor plans, 16&-169 Floor plans, 261
closed floor plan, 156-157 open floor plan, 156-158 pavilion plan, 107, 151
Flower boxes, 204 Focal point, 202-204, 226 Focus groups, 42 Folk houses, 144 Forest Hills, New York, 20, 48 Foyer, 166 Furniture, 162-163,165
Gable vents, 147 Chuages,91-95, 100, 103, 107-113,137, 151,
175-176,186,201,244-246,262 court, 110-111 lower level, 117-118 tandem, 110, 112 turned, 112-113 rear-loaded, 113 rear detached, 116 side-loaded, 245
Geodesic domes, 4, 133 Glen and Williams Architects, 129 Golf course communities, 145 Granny flats, 128 Green Company, The, 61 Greens at Hawk Valley, 245
Half-rooms, 167-168 Half-walls, 157, 195-197 Harbor Town, Memphis, TN, 44, 46, 75-76,
154-155 Hedgerows, 122, 124 Heritage Fields, 86 Hidden Hollow, 208 High density housing, 53, 74, 119, 122, 125,
235,237,239,241,254 Historic ReplicatiOns, 48 Home office, 152 Honor-Built, 20 Housing By Lifestyle, The Component Method
of Residential Design, 149 Housing types, 232
attached housing, 232, 236-237 attached singles, 237 bi -level, 23 duplexes, 238-240, 254 cluster housing, 68 condonUrrriums,235 courtyard homes, 125, 234
detached housing, 232-233, 236-237, 248, 255
fiveplex, 255 fourplex, 255 garden fiats, 236-237, 240-242, 246 lifestyle housing, 162, 232 manor homes, 237, 241-242 mews housing, 235 multifamily housing, 232-233, 235-237,
257 row homes, 232 townhouses, 233, 236-242, 245-246, 248,
253 triplexes, 239, 255
Hudson River Valley, 4 Humanistic design, 48
Impact fees, 32 Industrial Revolution, 9 Information-based society, 23 Interconnecting streets, 65 Interior detail, 179, 200 Interior room, 151 Interstate Highway System, 23 Irvine Ranch, 33 Island counter, 172, 198
J. C. Nichols Company, 20-22, 33, 40 Jefferson, Thomas, 7, 9 John Wieland Homes, 40
Katz, Peter, 45 Kaufman and Broad, 40 Kendig, Lane, 101 Kessler, George, 20 King's Way, 61 Rltchens,34-35, 151, 155,171-173,180,
186,197-198,200 Kohler, Wisconsin, 22
Laguna West, 45-46 Land planners, 51 Landscaping, 89, 106, 109, 124, 127,130-
131,244,248,252 Landscape architecture, 51 Larder, 198 Largelotzonlng,68 Laundry, 176 Lawn maintenance, 130 Levitt and Sons, 23 Lewis, Roger, 242 Levittown, 23-24, 38 Levitt, William, 23, 38 lJgh~ 137-138,149, 152, 156-157,162,192,
215 Living room, 163, 167, 184, 186, 192-193,
195 Local governmen~ 35, 37, 67, 70
Index
287
Log cabins, 4 Looney/Ricks/Kiss Architects, 42, 44, 46, 53,
75-76,154
Mantles, 183 Manufactured housing, 210, 259-266 MASCO Company, 10 NWsterbedroom, 163,166-167,180, 192 Materials, 215, 250, 261
accent materials, 215 masonry, 219-220,229,264 siding, 215-217 skin materials, 2:15-217 stncco, 215-217, 230 utilitarian materials, 215
McConneU at Davidson, 42, 48, 58, 116 McDonald, DoruUd, 255-256 Meadows at Rivetbe1l!1. 12,47-48 Mechanical room, 114, 176 Media center, 183-185 Merchandising, 35 Millwork, 13 Mixed-density housing, 53 Model homes, 140. . Modules, 139-140, 152, 154, 156-157,210,
259-260,264,266 Molding, 194-195
dentil molding, 212 Monticello, 7, 9 Mount Vernon, 6-7 Mud room, 186
Narrow lot design, 104-109, 113 Nash, John, 74 National Association of Home Builders, 37,
63 Neighborhoode, The, 263, 265-266 Neighborhood commercial, 59, 62 Neotraditionalism, 53 New town communities, 3, 75 Noise, 239 Nolen, John, 51
Odd lots, 81, 93, 97 Old Farms, 68-70 Olmsted Brothers, 20 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 51 Olmsted, Vaux and Company, 14-16, 53 Open space, 72 Open space subdivision, 77-78 Options, 179 Orde~ 140-147,201 Orientation, 152,248 Outdoor cooking, 121
Palladian, 7, 204 Pantry, 176, 198 '
Parking,~7, 103,242-245 across the street, 244 dispersed parking, 244 mews arrangement, 247 platform parking, 247 reduced parking, 244 remote lots, 244 side-lots, 242 surface parking, 243
Pattern books, 9-11, 36-37 Pattern Language, A, 48 Patios, 119-123, 152 Pavilion floor plans, 107 Pedestrian Pockets, 45-46, 102 Performance Zoning, 101 Planned unit developments, 54-56 Planning boards, 35-36 Plan shop, 37, 48 Plantation, 7 Playhouse, 128 Porches, 5, 14,29,34,87-89, 119-123, 135,
155,240,262,264 Postwar building boom, 23 Powder rooms, 174 Prefabricated building components, 32 Prefabricated metal fireplaces, 180, 182 Privacy, 119, 123-125, 130,239,246-248,
255 Production housing, 144 Production of Houses, The, 49 Project rooms, 169-170 Property values, 35 Providence Park at Antiqua, 126 Public housing, 3 Pullman, IllinoiS, 22 Pulte Homes, 38
Railroad suburbs, 15 Ranch house, 19 Ranch plan, 5 Realen Homes, 39-40, 78-79 Rear door, 198 Regents Park, 74, 240 Residential Streets, 63 Reston, Virginia, 74 Revolutionary War, 255 River Oaks, 20 RiverSide, Illinois, 14-16, 19-20 Riverside Improvement Company, 15 Rockefeller, John D., 1 Roland Park, 20 Roofu,206,210, 238,265
artificial, 206-207 eave, 211 fascia, 211-212, 215 fiiezeboard,212,217
Index
288
gable,203,206,208,213,238,262 gambrel, 206 hip, 209 overhangs, 210-211 over.fraIne, 208-209 pitches, 209-211, 260-261 rake, 211 stylized roof, 205-206 subfascia, 212 trim,211-212 trusses, 190-191,205-209,261
Room size, 165 RTKL Associates; 44, 46 Rhytlun,139-142,145,265
Sears, Roebuck and Company, 19-20, 199 Seaside,43,45-46,48,75,102 Secondary bedrooms, 163, 167 Security, 34 Separation of uses, 59 Service, 85, 116 Setback,83 Shady Grove Hills, 264 Shaker Heights, Ohio, 20 Shared housing, 3 Sheds, 128 Shelving, 194 Shotgun houses, 153 Sideyard houses, 154 Single-family dwellings, 3, 38 Site improvements, 32 Skylights, 209,213 Small lots, 81, 92, 97, 101, 119, 122, 125,
157,201 angled narrow lot, 70 angled Z-lot, 70 side-shallow lot, 7 wide-shallow lot 32,99-100 zero lot line, 32, 99, 155 zipper lots, 32, 99-100 z-lots, 32, 99-100
Smart appliances, 50 Smart houses, 49, 172 Solariums, 169-170 Stairs,159-160,187-188,241
back, 159-161 basement, 173 front, 159-161 grand,l60 scissor, 187 spiral, 160
Standard plan arrangement, 150 Storage, 162 Structure, 139 Style, 149
American Gothic, 155 Bungalow, 16, 154, 206, 210
Cape Cod, 1,23-24,47-48,265 Carpenter Gothic, 57-58 Colonial Revival, 18 Cottage, 210 Cracker, 48 Craftsman, 16, 18, 206, 210-211 Dutch Colonial, 4, 19, 206, 211, 221 Eclectic, 16, 20 English Cotswold, 16 English Tudor, 210 Federal, 212 Four-square, 16 French Chateauesque, 16 French Colonial, 5 French Country, 144, 221 French Eclectic, 18, 206 Garrison, 1, 48 German Colonial, 57-58 Georgian, 139,212 Gothic Revival, 9, 11 Greek Revival, 9, 11-12, 218 ltalianate, 11 Mission, 1, 16 Modernism, 16 Neo-Spanish, 217 Prairie, 16, 18 EOOmruantlc,9,11,16,25 Saltbox, 1, 48 Tudo~16-17, 139,144,206,221 Spanish Mission, 221 Spanish Revival, 18 Stick, 13, 205 Usonian,18 Western. Mission, 210 Western. Ranch, 210
Subdivision regulation, 35 SubuibanconunUEdties,14 Summerfield at Elverson, 57, 62,117,253-255 Sunbelt., 28 Sunr~, 169-170 Sustainable Communities, 48-49 Sweetwater, 241 Symmetry, 139-145, 149, 155
Technology mitigation, 179 Tomek Residence, Riverside, IL, 19 Traditional architecture, 46-48 Traditionalistphuurlng,42, 48, 66, 101,155,
247,255 Traditional neighborhood developments
(TNDs),42 Traffic calming, 66 Transition, 219, 251 Transit-oriented developments (TODs), 16,
45,102 Trash and recyclable, 176-177
Index
289
Trolley suburbs, 16, 20 Two Worlds, 255-256
Universal design, 164-165 Urban and Regional Planning, 51 Urban code design, 43 Urban Design, 51 Urban Land Institute, 63 Urban row home, 174 U.S. Constitution, 7
VA/FHA standard, 30 Van der Ryn, Sim, 49 Veneers, 204, 219-220, 262, 264
applied, 219 integral, 219
Veteran's Administration (VA), 30 Victorian architecture, 13-16, 25 Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 63
Walk-in pantry, 171, 197-198 Walkout basement., 174 Walls, 122-126 Washington, George, 6-7 Watson, Ray, 33 Weiss, Marc, 38 Wheatstone, 19, 77-78 Williamsburg, Virginia, 1-2 Windows, 140-143, 145-147, 149, 152,155,
170,176,185,195,203-204,217,221, 238-239, 262
casement., 221, 226 dormer windows, 189-190, 208-209, 212-
215 double windows, 224, 238 Dutch dormer, 213 eyebrow windows, 212-213 gable window, 213 half-dormer, 213 Palladian, window, 222 picture window, 204, 224 roof windows, 212-213 screens, 226 shapes, 221 specialty windows, 204, 213, 222 stylistic, 221
Window dressing, 221-222 awnings, 222 decorative trim, 222-224, 262 flower boxes, 222-224 lintels, 224 muntin patterns, 222, 224-226, 262 shutters, 222-224, 262
sills, 223 wrought iron, 224
Window seat, 187, 192, 194 Woodlands, Texas, 74 Work island, 171
Index
290
Workshop/hobby space, 128, 173-176 Wright, Frank Uoyd, 16, 18-19, 166, 185
Zoning, 35-36, 52-54, 59, 68, 81-82, 244, 256