“For every serious attempt to achieve integration of house to site you will find a thousand houses peppering the landscape and clearly demonstrating the builder's total disregard for even the most basic considerations of sun, wind, and view.”
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Ken Kern
The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
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