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Simple Rules is a new kind of builder handbook / design guide. Inspired by long forgotten sources, the design content included here--timeless composition principles, elegant proportional systems, building techniques and formulas for making buildings more beautiful--is intended as a guide for the modern builder who cares about aesthetics and meaning as much or more than the bottom line. In this small guide a few select concepts and techniques, salvaged mostly from 18th, 19th and early 20th century builder pocket references and architectural guides, have been resurrected and abridged--or interpreted where possible--for practical use by the 21st century architect and homebuilder. Simple building principles and conventions included here were used in the past to make places that were at once familiar and meaningful, sensible and beautiful.