The book contains a catalogue of early SALA work including Sarah’s own house that embraced the “Not So Big” approach in their design. The primary theme of the literature and philosophy is to, “build better, not bigger,” which emphasizes quality of space rather than a specific size. When the book was released in 1998 it was indeed an overnight success, however this was only the beginning of a long and astoundingly successful road for the “Not So Big” philosophy that still continues today. The book rarely needs introduction in the architecture community and features several projects Sarah designed along with a collection of other SALA projects with the “Not so big” concept applied. In this installment we’re not examining a specific project, but a book by one of SALA’ s founding partners Sarah Susanka titled, “ The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live”. In Part Two the contrasting success of pre-World Wide Web times was delved into with Michaela Mahady’s award winning Maple Forestdesign. In Part One we discussed the lightning paced publicity of the ESCAPE project, which currently continues to receive a lot of unexpected attention. In this multipart post we’re discussing projects with our firm that found accelerated exposure and success beyond what the designer had anticipated.
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