HouseFandango: "House me beautifully Honey." HMM, WE'RE IN GLOBAL DISTRESS. HOUSING, AS ABOUT US AT BREAKFAST, IS A HEART-THROB IN TH (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780646571263)

AUTHOR PROFILE Monte John Latham BA(EnvDes)GradDip Australian Institute of Architects A+Member was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia mid 20th century. Behind professional reports and two exhibitions he has been both amateur painting and writing since he was fifteen. His life has moved through thirty-five different domicile circumstances. He married thirty-three years ago, producing five vibrant children. He began an Architecture course thirty-five years ago and left it for eight years, out of disgust for social values, to work as a farmhand, artist and draughtsman. Thirty years ago he was moved to write a book for publication - 'Dream House, the complete romance and handbook'. The book doubled as a thesis for a BA(Environmental Design) and this found him returned to Architecture and far too busy with study, work and children to publish. He has 3.5 decades of work experience in architecture in Australia and Wellington in a broad range of projects ranging through house design, corporate fit-out, remote area town planning and housing, municipal architecture, community ownership of townscape, local government report writing and development appraisal, urban art, settlement heritage patterns and so on. He has liaised with professionals and bureaucrats of many specialties. Since completing the thesis draft of his book now long ago the author has been keeping references and notes; even lifting a pie bag from the ground at a Bob Dillon concert in Wellington to catch a thought. Under pressure he has now spent intense months to revamp that same book. It respects academics but writes to the heart of hearts of the person rather than the professional; the professional can interpret, to suit a professional task. In what is now titled HouseFandango the author has written a unique book with a style that is not common to authors with an academic capacity satisfactory to produce it. There may be others who would pull together the serious threads addressed but where are they. HouseFandango is a product of experience and intent specific to its author. Follow up books are planned - The Lounge Room, the Architecture of Fire and The Nomurbic Office.