Flagg's Small Houses

Their Economic Design and Construction, 1922

Ernest Flagg

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486136028
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Dissertations et monographies sur l'architecture

A celebrated New York architect and designer of the city's fabled Singer Building, Ernest Flagg (1857-1947) was most famous for his skyscrapers. But Flagg was also an ardent proponent of the well-designed single-family dwelling. As this classic treatise illustrates, he devised a variety of structural economies and ingenious innovations.
Filled with 526 blueprints, photographs, and other illustrations, Flagg's Small Houses embraces modular designs, the use of ridge-dormers, and saving space, materials, and costs. Flagg offers advice on every corner of the home, from the practicalities of plumbing and heating to the aesthetics of color choices and landscaping designs. Modern designers, both professional and amateur, will find this book a timeless source of advice and inspiration.

INDEX

Additions, effect of

“ essay on

Æsthetics, generally considered of little real importance

Alignment trusses for masonry forms

“ “removal of

Antiquities of Athens, Stewart and Rivett’s

Archæological discovery of great importance

Archæology leads nowhere in architecture

Architectural decadence in the United States

“ hodge-podge in the U. S., reasons for

Architectural illustrations, flood of, harmful to art

Architectural styles—development here before the Revolution

Architecture and archæology, essay on

“ “ construction divorced in many modern buildings

Architecture, scenic

“ tainted by archæology

Art and beauty should be synonymous terms

“ epochs, characteristics of

“ master key to it

“mongrel sort no good

“ royal road to it

“ superior to nature

Artistic convention, essay on

Artists, making of

Athletic sports in the United States

Back airing of traps, its great cost

Balance, in design

“ essential in good design

“ “ quality in design

“ personification of in the human form

“ without symmetry, explained

Base-boards, proper treatments of

Bases, on exterior walls

Bath-rooms, number required

Bath-tubs

Beam ceilings, decoration of

“ “use of, facilitated by the module in planning

Beam and girder ceiling, illustrated

Beams, spacing of

Bearing partitions

Beauty, and the steel frame

“ dependent on fitness

“ elevating power of

“ enemies of

“ essay on

“ germs of, in nature

“ in design, how most easily obtained

“ in design, importance of

“ in doors

“ in Greek Doric

“ in simplicity

“ in the human form

“ of form, the aim of the Greeks in art

“ “ “ as exemplified by the human figure, the most potent influence in art

Beauty, of line in Greek art

“ of little importance to the unrefined

“ search for it the road to art

Bed-rooms, arrangement of

Blanc, Charles, color versus form

Blondel, Paul, his teachings

Blueprints of working drawings

Bright colors in nature

“ “ use of

Broken stone, best as it comes from the crusher

Brown mortar omitted under certain conditions

Bulfinch, referred to

Byzantine influence on French art

Capitol at Washington, plan to damage it

Carpentry, essay on

“ how to improve quality of

“ mediæval, characteristics of

“ old methods

Casement windows, advantages of

“ “ how to make them weather-tight

Casement windows, objections to and how to overcome them

Cathedrals, Chartres and Cologne compared

Ceiling beams, warping and twisting of

Ceilings, construction of

“ height of

“ of dormers

“ plastering of

Cellars, disadvantages of

“ generally too large in small houses

“ omission of tends to lower the height of the house

Cellars, prejudice in favor of

“ saving by their omission

“substitutes for

“ wasteful of heat

Cement bases described

Certainty an essential element in good design

“ essay on

Chateau de Champs, France, view of grounds

Chevreul, his diagram of colors

Chimney doctors, methods of

Clarity in design

Clerestory dormers described

Clipped trees, best kind for the purpose

Closets, importance of

Collective art

College Sapienza at Rome, its lesson to the designer

Colonial architects, their aim

Colonial architecture, destruction of

“ “ origin of

Color, appeal of to the emotions

“ appeal of to savages

“ effects of juxtaposition

“ essay on

“ in nature

“ relationship of to form

“ supplement to form

Colors, pleasing combinations of

“ scientific combination of

Columbus monument, N. Y., illustration

Common sense in decorating the home

Complementary colors, law of

Concrete, adhesion of

“ descriptive article

“ finished in one operation

“ floors, construction of

“ “ making of illustrated

“ importance of in these houses

“ mixture and proportions

“ oxidized surfaces of

“ placing of in the wall

Construction of bases

“ “ beam ceilings

“ “ casement windows

“ “ ceilings

“ “ ceilings described

“ “ concrete floors

“ “ doors described

“ “ doorways

“ “ dormers

“ “ fireplaces

“ “ floors for bathrooms

“ “ foundations

“ “ Gothic buildings described

“ “ half-timber work

“ “ partitions

“ “ retaining walls

“ “ seepage tanks for plumbing systems

Construction of shades for casement windows

“ “ skylights

“ “ stairs

“ “ surbases

“ speed in, by the avoidance of

shams

Contractors opposed to new methods in buildi...