Self-Build and Renovation For Dummies
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About the Author
Nicholas Walliman is an architect and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. He practised for many years as an architect in the UK and in Switzerland, before building a house for his young family, doing virtually all the building work himself. His interest in self-build led him back to academia, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Group Self Build in the UK. He continued working in architectural education and research, as well as doing small scale building developments some of them self-build. Apart from this book, he has written several text books on subjects to do with research methods and academic writing.
Authors Acknowledgements
My particular thanks go to my wife Ursula for her patience and forbearance during the writing process, which I unwisely tried to combine with doing all the building work myself on a self-build renovation project.
I would like to thank Alison Yates (Commissioning Editor) and Simon Bell (Development Editor) at Wiley for their support in initiating and producing this book. I also appreciate all the hard work that Kelly Ewing, Andy Finch, and Lesley Green carried out in editing and correcting my text to turn it into a genuine For Dummies book.
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Introduction
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