Sarah Susanka, AIA, award-winning architect and author of the best-selling Not So Big House books, and Julie Moir Messervy, renowned landscape designer and author of The Inward Garden and Contemplative Gardens, will be collaborating on a new book entitled Outside the Not So Big House. The latest addition to the best-selling Not So Big House series, to be published by The Taunton Press in 2006, will address the landscape surrounding a house and connections between inside and outside.

Susanka Studios currently is seeking submissions of professionally designed houses and their landscapes to be featured in this upcoming book. The selected projects will have “exceptional landscaping, where the space surrounding the house is as much a part of home as the house itself. The emphasis will be on the landscape but will very much include the interior and exterior of the house.” The authors say they are looking for “projects that have both the qualities of comfort and inspiration.” Additionally:

• Entries may be located in any geographic location, climate, zone, or setting, be it urban, suburban, town, or country.
• Submitted projects need to have been completed for at least three years to ensure that the landscape has had time to grow in.
• The house and landscape should enhance each other and be consistent with the “Not So Big” concept, emphasizing quality of space rather than a specific size.
• The inside of the house needs to be as well designed as the landscape to demonstrate the visual connections between inside and out.
• Preference will be given to houses under 3,000 square feet on the main and upper levels, but outstanding gardens of larger homes will be considered.
• Homeowners must be willing to open their house to a photographer and sign releases for the publication of their property; the book's photographer will take all final photographs.

Submissions are due October 15. Visit Susanka’s Web site for details.

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