Haiku Houses: Country Houses of 16th Century Japan

1989 Edition. CLEAN!! No marks. Gently used if at all. Stapled binding is sound. 20 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans ; 31 x 31 cm. . . . . . . . . The term *Haiku House* refers to the signature style of Southern California designer Gordon Steen, who developed a yen for classic Japanese architecture and created a market for it in the US in the early 1970s. Haiku Houses caught on first in Hawaii and later in Southern California. Steens original company is no longer in business, and Steen himself died in 2004." -- From Curbed, San Francisco. . . . . . . . In 1973 Gordon Steen began a business called Pole House Kits of California. With that business, Steen developed plans, designs, specifications and materials for the construction of pole houses which emulated sixteenth century Japanese farmhouses. The 1989 edition includes floor plans for an additional design, the *Nara Countryhouse.* Steen designed these replicas of Japanese farmhouses based on those he had seen forty years earlier while serving with the U.S. Air Force.

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Publisher: World Classic Houses, Inc.

Year: 1989

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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