Great idea! But sadly a 1000sq foot home is just NOT what most customers are looking for. I believe average home sizes keep creeping upward. Probably over 2300 sq ft, which even at $100 a sq foot is $230,000 and not really affordable for many families.

I agree we need to become more attuned to minimizing square footage without necessarily sacrificing life style, healthy home, sustainable, green concepts.

Also much of the design seems to focus on INDIVIDUAL homes, I’d love to see more efforts on housing for small developments of 50-100 units that are holistically planned. Look forward to your comments.

Also, is there any discussion in this book about having an inexpensive (or perhaps reasonably priced) house cost more in the long-run, due to the standard lack of attention given to environmentally- and wallet-friendly measures that can be taken to (pre-)fabricate a house? For example, just because a house is $100 per square foot, if that cost doesn’t include proper insulation and good orientation with respect to its surroundings, the price point becomes far less meaningful. Maybe that’s not the point of the book. But discussing the purchase and selection of one’s home without talking about the energy it will use is, in the 21st century, antiquatedly ignorant of the 800-pound gorilla in the room. Especially if the author claims “perfection”.