title: A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture
author:  Ann Cline 
description: Subtitled <I>Life Outside the Circle of Architecture</I>, this book takes &quot;a stroll through the borderlands that surround architecture&quot; to bestow a quiet nobility on huts, shacks, shanties, teahouses, follies, and casitas. Writer Ann Cline is a professor of &quot;capital-<I>A</I> Architecture,&quot; as she proffers in an up-front confession. But she has built and occupied a hut, and her thoughts on what she terms &quot;life in the margins&quot; are illuminating. In one example, she reveals that in &quot;the years I had gazed out at a row of pomegranate trees at the rear of my yard, I never knew overripe pomegranates sometimes burst open. Reading in my hut one autumn evening, the sudden sound of a pomegranate cracking open riveted my attention.&quot;
zlib_text: **Table of Contents**
  
  [ _Cover_](OEBPS/9780763659714_epub_cvi_r1.htm)
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Dedication_
  
   _Chapter 1_
  
   _Chapter 2_
  
   _Chapter 3_
  
   _Chapter 4_
  
   _Chapter 5_
  
   _Chapter 6_
  
   _Chapter 7_
  
   _Chapter 8_
  
   _Chapter 9_
  
   _Chapter 10_
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _Copyright_
  
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   **A** tall building, with one apartment stacked on top of another — that is
  where Nick and Maxine came to live with their parents. They had not lived
  there very long when Maxine said to Nick, “Come to my room. I have discovered
  something.”
  
  “What?” Nick asked. “What have you discovered?”
  
  “You can see it out the window,” Maxine said. “But you have to stand with your
  head in that corner.”
  
  “But there is a chest of drawers in that corner,” Nick said.
  
  “I know there is,” Maxine said. “You have to stand on top of the chest of
  drawers and lean your head into the corner and look out the window and down.
  