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  • Timber Homes: Taking Wood to New Levels by Van Uffelen, Chris
    Chris Van Uffelen

    Timber Homes: Taking Wood to New Levels

    Elaborating the diversity of wood architecture today for private homesMore and more architects and builders are exploring the possibilities of a material for the construction of houses that offers unparalleled major advantages regarding design, function and ecology. Wood is a renewable building resource that...
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  • All about Chalets: Contemporary Mountain Residences by Kramer, Sibylle
    Sibylle Kramer

    All about Chalets: Contemporary Mountain Residences

    Exclusive living retreats set against the backdrop of majestic peaks, steep slopes and picturesque valleysThe chalet is a building style that enjoys lasting popularity all over the world. Dating back to the herdsman's hut in the Alpine region, it became a longed-for destination and...
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  • Old Becomes New: Housing Transformation by Lucas, Dorian
    Dorian Lucas

    Old Becomes New: Housing Transformation

    Howcan houses be upgraded to meet today's demands - from living comfort via energyefficiency to digital requirements? How can the fusion of historic and newelements be utilized as a design element? The continued use of existing residential buildings, be it a Renaissancetownhouse, a Ming...
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  • Home Smart Home: How We Want to Live by Herwig, Oliver
    Oliver Herwig

    Home Smart Home: How We Want to Live

    Willkommen im hybriden Heim. Das Bad wird zum Wellnesstempel, das Wohnzimmer zur Online-Couch neben der Wohnk?he. Alles wirkt aufger舫mt und chic, perfekt zu posten. Im Instagram-Zeitalter mutieren selbst Mikrowohnungen zu halbfentlichen Orten. SZ-Autor Oliver Herwig besch臟tigt sich seit Jahren mit dem Wandel von Wohnr舫men...
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  • Jean Prouvé Maison Demontable Metropole Demountable House, 1949 by Prouvé, Jean
    Jean Prouvé

    Jean Prouvé Maison Demontable Metropole Demountable House, 1949

    Jean Prouv began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouv to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame...
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  • Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain by Ewen, Shane
    Shane Ewen

    Before Grenfell: Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain

    On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed Grenfell Tower, a residential block of flats in West London. Seventy-two people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a national 'cladding crisis' unfolded. Before Grenfell traces the underlying causes of the fire through more...
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  • Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens by Thoburn, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thoburn

    Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens

    A critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today. The Robin Hood Gardens public-housing estate in East London, completed in 1972, was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson as an ethical and aesthetic encounter with the flux and crises of the social...
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  • Modern Cabins by Desai, Dev
    Dev Desai

    Modern Cabins

    A beautifully illustrated and inspirational book that showcases innovative and modern cabin designs Engaging descriptions of each project that detail challenges, benefits, and tips and tricks from designers Covers a wide range of inspiring, contemporary cabin designs from across the globe, including Canada, France,...
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  • New Texas Modern by Thompson, Helen
    Helen Thompson

    New Texas Modern

    Showcases contemporary residential architecture and design across the state of Texas, by renowned Texas-based architects and designers Features stunning full-color photography throughout and informative descriptions Contextualizes with an introduction by an acclaimed expert on the profound influences of key architecture and design practitioners and...
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  • Homework: New Houses Changed Houses Not Houses by McInturff, Mark
    Mark McInturff

    Homework: New Houses Changed Houses Not Houses

    - A beautifully illustrated volume showcasing residential and commercial/institutional designs across North America, with a special focus on artful interiors, the craftmanship and the dynamics at play within each space- Spectacularly presented throughout with stunning full-colour photographs, detailed plans and diagrams, and thoughtful commentary...
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  • Correlations: Life + Work: Bentel & Bentel Architects by Bentel, Paul
    Paul Bentel

    Correlations: Life + Work: Bentel & Bentel Architects

    Richly illustrated, this monograph offers an exceptional insight into the methodology and holistic design approaches of award-winning architectural firm, Bentel & Bentel Provides compelling discussion on prominent buildings and interiors designed by the studio Foreword written by distinguished architectural critic John Morris Dixon A...
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  • Millennium Modern: Living in Design by Webb, Michael
    Michael Webb

    Millennium Modern: Living in Design

    From artworks and chairs to architecture, landscaping, and interior design, Michael Boyd's devotion to the principles of modernism is comprehensive. An artist and musician, he acquired his expertise as a collector, surrounding himself with rare and beautiful finds. His immersion in the philosophy and...
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  • The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home by McMillan, Michael
    Michael McMillan

    The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home

    The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home, originally published in 2009, has become a beloved and much-praised source, providing fascinating revelations into the post-war British experience of immigrants, the decoration of their living spaces, and their position in society in relation to...
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  • Safe as Houses: The More-Than-Human Home by Armstrong, Rachel
    Rachel Armstrong

    Safe as Houses: The More-Than-Human Home

    This book examines the notion of the home in the context of the pandemic and lockdown, as they relate to environmental concerns and how we live with viruses and bacteria. It argues that, in order to decrease our vulnerability to infective agents, we need...
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  • Living in Houses: A Personal History of English Domestic Architecture by Dalton, Ruth
    Ruth Dalton

    Living in Houses: A Personal History of English Domestic Architecture

    This book presents a rich and rewarding history of houses in England through the stories of nine houses, dating from the 1600s to the 1980s, which have been inhabited by the author, an architect and academic. Chronologically ordered, the book covers rural vernacular houses...
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  • Little Republics: The Story of Bungalow Bliss by Duncan, Adrian
    Adrian Duncan

    Little Republics: The Story of Bungalow Bliss

    Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appeared two years before Ireland was to join the EEC as a self-published pamphlet by Jack Fitzsimons from his...
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  • Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England by Hubka, Thomas C.
    Thomas C. Hubka

    Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England

    A classic work on farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders refreshed with a new introduction. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn portrays the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today...
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  • Key West Cottages and Gardens: Inspiration from America's Special Tropical Island by Linsley, Leslie
    Leslie Linsley

    Key West Cottages and Gardens: Inspiration from America's Special Tropical Island

    Bright colors, floral patterns, and cottage styles are all design choices associated with the Florida Keys. Key West, one of the most famous tropical islands in the world, embodies the ideas of the Florida Keys while also presenting its own style and culture. In...
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  • The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe: Volume 24 by Fox, Stephen
    Stephen Fox

    The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe: Volume 23

    Birdsall P. Briscoe (1876-1971) practiced architecture from 1912 to 1956, the span of years during which Houston was transformed from an ambitious town on Buffalo Bayou into an international city, its economy powered by cotton, trade, and oil. The country houses Briscoe designed for...
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  • Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition by Wells, Walker
    Walker Wells

    Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition

    The lack of affordable housing and the climate crisis are two of the most pressing challenges facing cities today. Green affordable housing addresses both by providing housing stability, safety, and financial predictability while constructing and operating the buildings to reduce environmental and climate impacts....
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  • A Home Called New England: A Celebration of Hearth and History by Dickinson, Duo
    Duo Dickinson

    A Home Called New England: A Celebration of Hearth and History

    New England has grown into the most industrious, innovative, reserved, and literature-producing area of the United States. Roam its cities, villages and farms, visit its churches, factories, graveyards, and look inside its unique houses that, anywhere at any time, are subtle symbols of a...
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  • Architect's Pocket Book of Kitchen Design by Baden-Powell, Charlotte
    Charlotte Baden-Powell

    Architect's Pocket Book of Kitchen Design

    As with the best-selling 'Architects Pocket Book' this title includes everyday information which the architect/designer normally has to find from a wide variety of sources and which is not always easily to hand. Focusing on kitchen design, this book is of use to the...
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  • The Gate Lodges of Leinster: A Gazetteer by Dean, J. A. K.
    J. A. K. Dean

    The Gate Lodges of Leinster: A Gazetteer

    An inventory and history of gatekeepers' houses, in Leinster, Ireland. Lodges are present here in such quality and in such great quantity as to represent a massive as-yet-unrecognized contribution to Ireland's architectural heritage. There are descriptions of 3,136 gate lodges in the twelve counties,...
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  • Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling by Bergdoll, Barry
    Barry Bergdoll

    Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

    As the world's population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept...
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  • Highland Retreats: The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland's Romantic North by Miers, Mary
    Mary Miers

    Highland Retreats: The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland's Romantic North

    Featuring breathtaking photographs of some of Scotland's most remarkable and little-known houses, this book tells the story of how incomers adopted the North of Scotland as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romanticized image of...
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  • The Contemporary Log Home: Solid Wood Homes for Residential Living by Lennartz, Marc Wilhelm
    Marc Wilhelm Lennartz

    The Contemporary Log Home: Solid Wood Homes for Residential Living

    Block and solid wood make up one of the oldest construction methods and one that ever more people are opting for when building their homes. Not only are contemporary log homes environmentally sustainable and planet-friendly, they provide comfortable and healthy living. In addition, many...
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  • The Treehouse Book by Collins, Candida
    Candida Collins

    The Treehouse Book

    The Treehouse Book is a global round-up of the best in modern treehouse living. Tree houses have come of age. The image of a few planks nailed into the branches of a tree has changed into a new generation of specially designed and built...
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  • Tumult and Order: La Malcontenta 1924 - 1939 by Foscari, Antonio
    Antonio Foscari

    Tumult and Order: La Malcontenta 1924 - 1939

    In the 1920s and 1930s, the Villa Foscari in Venice, better known as La Malcontenta, became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and members of the nobility such as Sergei Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Serge Lifar, Winston Churchill, Robert Byron, Diana Cooper, Bruce Chatwin, and...
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  • Adobe Remodeling & Fireplaces: A Comprehensive Guide to Expansion, Restoration and Maintenance of Adobe Homes by Stedman, Myrtle
    Myrtle Stedman

    Adobe Remodeling & Fireplaces: A Comprehensive Guide to Expansion, Restoration and Maintenance of Adobe Homes

    In this one volume are clear and thorough instructions on remodeling adobe houses plus how to build an adobe fireplace. Illustrations and practical instructions make working from this book a pleasure. Designed for use by the most inexperienced person as well as the professional...
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  • Second Home: A Different Way of Living by Crafti, Stephen
    Stephen Crafti

    Second Home: A Different Way of Living

    On a remote island, among sand dunes, adjacent to a lake, and on a rocky beach--these are just some of the stunning sites of the architect-designed contemporary houses featured in this celebration of getaways that connect strongly with nature. Renowned architecture and design commentator...
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  • Houses That Can Save the World by Smith, Courtenay
    Courtenay Smith

    Houses That Can Save the World

    Nothing short of a design revolution is underway as architects, designers, engineers, self-builders, and artists confront climate change, polluting plastics, global migration, rapidly expanding cities, and an ageing population. Part handbook, part manifesto, Houses That Can Save the World shows how creative thinkers are...
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  • Heidegger's Hut by Sharr, Adam
    Adam Sharr

    Heidegger's Hut

    The intense relationship between philosopher Martin Heidegger and his cabin in the Black Forest: the first substantial account of "die H?te" and its influence on Heidegger's life and work."This is the most thorough architectural 'crit' of a hut ever set down, the justification for...
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  • Small House Living: Design-Conscious New Zealand Homes of 90m2 or Less by Foster, Catherine
    Catherine Foster

    Small House Living: Design-Conscious New Zealand Homes of 90m2 or Less

    Smart, space-efficient houses are becoming the way of the future. Small House Living showcases an inspiring collection of homes measuring less than 90m2 from around New Zealand. Family homes, baches, and apartments are included in the line-up, all of them demonstrating ingenious ways to...
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  • Making Homes: Ethnography and Design by Pink, Sarah
    Sarah Pink

    Making Homes: Ethnography and Design

    Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original...
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  • Early-20th-Century Los Angeles Bungalow Architecture by Zeitlin, Harry
    Harry Zeitlin

    Early-20th-Century Los Angeles Bungalow Architecture

    Los Angeles, California, shaped the nation's culture in the 20th century with the city's bungalow style of mass middle-class housing. The style made the novelty and easy climate of Los Angeles into a force for living according to new standards of health and well-being,...
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  • Carmel-By-The-Sea by Dramov, Alissandra
    Alissandra Dramov

    Carmel-By-The-Sea

    Carmel-by-the-Sea is called a village in the forest by the sea--a one-square-mile California town with quaint charm and European-inspired architecture. Since this beautiful coastal town was established in 1902, residents have resisted change and battled to keep it unique and distinctive. Today, Carmel is...
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  • Zeals: A Biography of an English Country House by Elias, Jennie
    Jennie Elias

    Zeals: A Biography of an English Country House

    Zeals, an English Country Manor House in Wiltshire, was filled with life, dogs, books, flowers and a grand piano in the Great Hall. It was a house for landed gentry, but is now on Historic England's 'At Risk' register. This fascinating house has a...
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  • Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger, Place, Architecture by Malpas, Jeff
    Jeff Malpas

    Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger, Place, Architecture

    Over the last twenty years, Jeff Malpas' research has involved his engagement with architects and other academics around the issues of place, architecture and landscape and particularly the way these practitioners have used the work of Martin Heidegger. In Rethinking Dwelling, Malpas' primary focus...
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  • Masterpieces: Country House Architecture + Design by Galindo, Michelle
    Michelle Galindo

    Masterpieces: Country House Architecture + Design

    Country houses are becoming more popular as the urban stress rises around the globe - living in the countryside means giving a piece of peace back and connecting back to nature. The rural retreats offer a refuge in nature from the hustle and bustle...
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  • Lake Arrowhead Architecture by Wilk, Diane
    Diane Wilk

    Lake Arrowhead Architecture

    Located in the mountains above San Bernardino is a surprising enclave of significant architecture built by some of the region's most important architects. The Lake Arrowhead area was long a getaway for the rich and famous, who brought many of the architects they used...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living by Levine, Neil
    Neil Levine

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living is edited by Wright scholar and noted author Neil Levine and features essay contributions by all three Jacobs children (Susan, Elizabeth, and William), as well as new scholarly essays by Levine and Michael Desmond. Additionally,...
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  • Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology: In Alphabetical Order by Goring, Les
    Les Goring

    Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology: In Alphabetical Order

    This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, or Architecture, etc. It should also be of use to the Construction-related legal profession, Property Managers and Letting Agents. Builders (and homeowners, interested in identifying faults in their...
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  • Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia by Elsheshtawy, Yasser
    Yasser Elsheshtawy

    Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia

    Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction? Is their fate obsolescence? Or, are they the model for our urban future? Can a city whose very existence is predicated on an imported labour force who...
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  • Designing and Building: Rockhill and Associates by Carter, Brian
    Brian Carter

    Designing and Building: Rockhill and Associates

    This second edition contains twelve projects from the Kansas architectural practice of Rockhill and Associates, spanning from their early design-build work to the recent completion of a 37-building affordable housing complex in New Mexico. The firm's work exhibits a keen understanding of the house...
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  • Woods + Dangaran: Architecture and Interiors by Woods, Brett
    Brett Woods

    Woods + Dangaran: Architecture and Interiors

    A masterful combination of classically modernist inspiration with comfortable California twenty-first-century living. Architects Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran are devotees of midcentury modernism who are committed to expressing classic modern tenets in a manner perfectly suited to twenty-first-century living. In addition to restoring multiple...
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  • Soul: Interiors by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy by Arango, Jorge S.
    Jorge S. Arango

    Soul: Interiors by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy

    The second monograph--the first having been published in 2009--on one of today's most celebrated designers, renowned for being one of the earliest creators of a modernism that is soft, warm, and lyrical. San Francisco-based Orlando Diaz-Azcuy's mastery of the home interior has made him...
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  • Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture by Britton, Laura
    Laura Britton

    Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture

    Why wood? Though it is one of the world's oldest building materials, wood is still revolutionizing the way buildings are designed and constructed today. It is imperative that everyone considers how construction practices impact climate change. Timber buildings are not only environmentally responsible--they also...
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  • Jean-Louis Deniot: Destinations by Golbin, Pamela
    Pamela Golbin

    Jean-Louis Deniot: Destinations

    A leading name in the international design scene, and a regular in every major shelter magazine in America, his native France and world-wide, Jean-Louis Deniot is celebrated for his exceptionally sophisticated and erudite take on classical style. Deniot is known for layering--art and furniture...
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  • The Layered Interior by Natale, Greg
    Greg Natale

    The Layered Interior

    Multi-award-winning interior designer Natale takes readers deeper than ever before into his intricate approach to layering--the process of curating and editing elements to create warm, welcoming interiors. Told in Natale's refreshing, personable style and accompanied by rich visuals, The Layered Interior is a celebration...
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  • Emilio Ambasz: Curating a New Nature by Bergdoll, Barry
    Barry Bergdoll

    Emilio Ambasz: Curating a New Nature

    A timely reevaluation and synthesis of this ecologically minded trailblazer and vibrantly interdisciplinary figure of contemporary design. Famously labeled the "father, poet, and prophet" of green architecture and a proponent of the idea that any project in architecture or design must present new or...
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