Solar Houses [antikvár]

The author of this book owes a great debt to the editors, writers, artists, and photographers who work together to produce House & Garden and the House & Garden Guides, where plans for most of the houses that make up the body of this book were first published. This book would have been impossible without them, and I want them a!l to know how much I appreciate their contribution to the book, as well as working with them at the Condé Nast Publications Inc., as editor-in-chief of the House & Garden Guides. Special thanks must go to Albert Hamowy, who designed this book, to Carol Knobloch, who did the art production and to Gere Gallagher, my editorial assistant. I want to thank William Rayner, the editorial business manager at Condé Nast, for his support; and Paul Bonner, director of the Condé Nast book division. I alsó appreciate the early interest and support of Barbara Plumb, my editor at Pantheon, and Connie Mellon, my production editor there. And I am grateful for the originál work done by Elizabeth Sverbeyeff Byron, trends and environments editor, and Will Mehlhorn, architeetural editor, of House & Garden. Photographs are always the raw material of a book on architecture, and I owe special thanks to the photographers who gave this book its unique visual quality and who frequently introduced me, through their lenses, to the houses that follow. Which brings me to the most important contributors of aii; the homeowners who have been willing to share their houses with us, and the architects and designers who are creating the-new solar architecture. They have my admiration, my respect, and my appreciation for their originál contribution to architecture and to the quality of all our lives. May they continue to look up and find the sun.Louis Gropp Designer: Albert T. Hamowy 6