Sarah Susanka

Sarah Susanka is a best-selling author, architect and cultural visionary whose build better, not bigger approach to residential architecture is leading a movement that is redefining the American home, and her Not So Big philosophy has sparked an international dialogue. Ms. Susanka regularly addresses local and national conferences of the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Home Builders. She has been featured on the Charlie Rose and Oprah Winfrey shows, and in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. She was selected as a top newsmaker for 2000 by Newsweek magazine and as an innovator in American culture by U.S. News & World Report. She also ranked 15 out of 50 in Builder Magazine's Power Brokers the most influential people in the building industry. Ms. Susanka has won similar accolades for her series of books published by the Taunton Press. Described by The Washington Post as the J.K. Rowling of home-design books, Ms. Susanka's The Not So Big House (1998) spent two years among the top five best sellers on Amazon.com's Home and Garden list. Creating the Not So Big House (2000) ranked among the top 15 books in The New York Times Advice & How To best-seller list. A regular contributor to home and design magazines, the best of her columns for Fine Homebuilding and Inspired House were compiled into Not So Big Solutions for Your Home (2002). Her latest book, Inside the Not So Big House (2005) will be followed in February, 2006 by Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home.