Book Review: Small Living
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 07. 7.07
Size matters; bigger houses consume more resources to build and to operate. Thats why we love showing designs of small spaces and reviewing books like Small Living. It is another anonymous European production (you have to dig to find that the "idea and concept" came from a Paco Asensio and "editor and original texts" are by Sandra Moya in Barcelona; it is then translated into english and printed and bound in China.) This is more like industrial production than publishing as we know it, but they have produced an attractive volume with excellent choices, although the text is often meaningless and less than useful. But hey, we buy these things for the pictures.
Included are Treehugger faves like the Wee House, Optibo, Layer House and many more. Two that we had not seen but liked a lot were the first, Markku Hedman's summer container from Finland, and the last, Drew Heath's Zig Zag cabin in Australia.(269 SF) Tasty eye candy in ::Small Living found at ::Ballenford Books
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I would have passed this article up, if it weren't for the line that caught my eye, "although the text is often meaningless and less than useful. But hey, we buy these things for the pictures."
This sounds like just more consumption to me! Do we really need to be buying books with pretty pictures and meaningless text? Do we need to buy new books at all when there are library books waiting for foster parents and used books waiting for adoption?
The environment would suffer so much less if everyone would just stop buying so much stuff!