The Architecture Handbook

The Architecture Handbook explores the design and construction of homes. Each chapter asks students to make a 3-point comparison between their own home, the F10 House—which serves as the book’s case study—and 1 of 10 famous homes located in the US and around the world.

The comparison buildings are introduced at the beginning of each chapter. The 'Big Questions' guide the student to explore the chapter's topic in terms of how the F10 House, the famous home, and the student's own home solved the problem. A series of pages, called “Meet the Building,” are also included as a quick reference to the comparison buildings. They provide a snapshot of the home and the architect and help students to understand the historic context from the time of the building’s construction.

The 10 Famous buildings


Farnsworth House Plano, Illinois Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1946	Chicago Bunalow Chicago, Illinois many architects 1920s	F10 House Chicago, Illinois EHDD Architecture 2000	The Contemporaine Chicago, Illinois Perkins+Will 2004	Glessner House Chicago, Illinois H.H. Richardson 1885	Robie House Chicago, Illinois Frank Lloyd Wright 1906


My home	Legorreta House Mexico City, Mexico Legorreta + Legorreta 1997	Fallingwater Mill Run, Pennsylvania Frank Lloyd Wright 1935	Unite d'Habitation Marseille, France Le Corbusier 1947	Villa Rotunda Vicenza, Italy Andrea Palladio 1556	Magney House Bingie Point, New South Wales, Australia Glenn Murcutt 1982