Residential Architecture Manchester CT

Beauty, as we were told since our childhood, is in the eye of the beholder. Thus everyone is entitled to an opinion on the quality of residential architecture, from hard-boiled journalists, to soccer parents driving through a new-home community on a Saturday morning, to professionals who have walked models to Pluto and back.

The irony is that creating a beautiful or simply irresistible home, as our cover story suggests, requires a great deal of professional aptitude from several disciplines. That's why we sought out special talents in the fields of architecture, construction, land planning, technology, and merchandising to glean their trade secrets for this month's special feature. We hope our coverage inspires you to strive for beauty in every home you build.

There's way more to an appealing project than meets the eye. Sure, the architecture needs to incorporate proportions that create a sense of beauty: The windows need to be in the right places, the building forms should flow together, the roof needs to work, and the architectural elements can't overwhelm. But the home also needs to make sense in its environment, the landscape, and the community.

For 10 years we've been telling people in the pages of BUILDER that people don't buy houses, they buy into communities. People decide where they want to live based on trees, amenities, proximity to work and shopping, and who already lives there before they decide what house they want to live in.

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