The beauty of 3D Home Architect Deluxe is the simplicity of the interface.
The Home Architect series was originally created by Broderbund, a company that privately held Riverdeep acquired in August 2002.
Today, Riverdeep is releasing the latest version of its home design and remodeling software, 3D Home Architect Design Suite Deluxe 6.
3D Home Architect Deluxe also makes it easy to insert standard appliances, such as water heaters, stoves, dishwashers and toilets, from a library of some 400 standard devices.
It is said that instead of approaching the building as a home, architect Eero Saarinen (you know, the guy who designed the Gateway Arch in St . Louis-- yeah, that Saarinen) asked the Millers to describe their ideal house.
Decide if you really need to hire a home architect.
At one point, there were work-at-home architects who used rolling chairs with casters.
The grand prize ($25,000) went to something called the Enertia house, which was invented by an engineer and former log-home architect, Michael Sykes.
Two years ago, the firm created the Dwell House, a modernist, glassy home whose architects won a prefab design contest run by Dwell Magazine, which is helping to market the house.
Now it is home to architects' and artists' studios as well as offering the city a new park where Berliners cycle, picnic, jog, skate, grow vegetables and, appropriately, fly kites.
