Architecture - Buildings - Residential

Based on a rare 1925 catalog, this showcase of one of the most beloved eras of American architecture features floor plans, construction details, and photos of twenty-six homes. Styles range from English cottages and Spanish bungalows to Dutch colonials, New England farmhouses, and Italianate...

In this profusely illustrated book the reader will journey through a wide section of the South with an architect as ... companion: from Lexington to Nashville, then along the Natchez Trace and down the great Mississippi River to New Orleans, with little by-way excursions...

Organic form was Frank Lloyd Wright's credo, and its most splendid embodiment is Fallingwater, designed and built for the Pittsburgh merchant Edgar Kaufmann in the 1930s. The private dwelling, which juts directly over a waterfall at Bear Run in western Pennsylvania, is the boldest...

At the behest of oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, the twentieth century's greatest architect created one of his most imaginative and controversial residential designs. Built in Hollywood in 1920-21, Hollyhock House attests to the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright and was eventually designated a World...

New challenges on a global scale have forced a rethinking about the way homes and communities are designed. Future Homes provides an engaging and in-depth analysis of possible solutions.Author: Avi FriedmanISBN-10: 1864709154ISBN-13: 9781864709155Publisher: Images Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2023Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 8.00w...

Enjoy Building a New Sauna With The Latest Guide. Looking to build a sauna? Here's the major problem you will face, with so many books and guides out there, it's very difficult to tell which source to choose from. What makes this problem worse,...

- Introduction is by Helmut Jahn, FAIA, who has known Hovey since 1974. Jahn's building have been described as having had a 'staggering' influence on architecture- Essays by Cheryl Kent and Alex Marshall examine respectively the architectural achievement, and secondly, trace Hovey's life and...

Why do the words "little house" go straight to the heart, as Sir John Summerson observed? Clearly, something beyond economy is at work. For centuries, the idea of a minimal dwelling has captivated thinkers who saw it as closer to nature, the world's and...

The fascinating story of people and mid-century modern architecture, merging and prevailing to create a neighborhood in Los Angeles.Their Crestwood Hills is like no other place in the vast metropolis--its history is the result of the singular optimism that defined Southern California in the...

New Albany's historic homes boast unique histories and fascinating stories of those who inhabited them. Founded in 1813 below the falls of the Ohio River, the city was Indiana's most populous by the middle of the nineteenth century. Many leading citizens built grand mansions...

Reprinted from rare 1912 catalog, this book presents 100 winning entries from a nationwide competition for brick bungalow designs. Superb renderings show houses in perspective, floor plans, some landscape planning - even a budget.Author: Rogers & Manson, Manson, Rogers &. MansonISBN-10: 0486281191ISBN-13: 9780486281193Publisher: Dover...

It provides accurate scale plans of every floor, together with elevations, sections, and site plans where appropriate, for each house. All have been specially drawn for the purpose and are based on the most up-to-date information and sources. Amplified with full-color views of the...

Would you like to stop PAYING RENT every month and NEVER HAVE ANYTHING YOURS?Are you worried you will have to spend your life-giving money to the banks, never finding yourself with something stable and just to be more serene?Would you like to have YOUR...

Enjoy Building a New Sauna With The Latest 2020 Guide. Looking to build a sauna?Here's the problem, with so many books and guides out there, it's very difficult to tell which source to choose from.What makes this problem worse, is that so many guides...

Neither derivatives of Western cities norisolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps bestcaptured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biologicalevolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and migration, drift ofphenotypes takes place when chance events terminate some features and...

Mass urbanization. Population growth. All happening faster than we can build for. As global populations are projected to shift to 80-90% urban in the next 30 years, architects are faced with a growing challenge: how to accommodate all this growth in limited space? At...

Against a backdrop of growing cities and a changing approach to how we live, there are many reasons to refurbish a home. Our buildings must continue to evolve along with us--and that takes a little imagination. Societal shifts continue to impact our homes. People...

Award-winning author Paul Goble examines the construction, art, and significance of the tipi to the Plains Indians in his newest book, entitled Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters. Through a re-telling of the old-timer's stories, Goble shows how the tipi was more than...

Just what is the quintessential Maine house? A traditional Cape nestled into a hillside meadow? A classic lake ront cottage? A restored Victorian in a quaint village? Architect Chris Glass and photographer Brian Vanden Brink make a compelling and visually fascinating argument that the...

Fallingwater is the most famous modern house in America. Indeed, readers of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects voted it the best American building of the last 125 years! Annually, more than 128,000 visitors seek out Fallingwater in its remote mountain site...

Frank Lloyd Wright was once asked if he went to church. He responded that his church was Nature with a capital N. A reverence for nature permeated Wright's work from the beginning. The sun, trees, stones, and water were elements of the natural world...

How to make your senior years healthy, safe, social, and stimulating. "Architect and author Chuck Durrett's recently released book Senior Cohousing Handbook comes at a time of high interest in greening, sustainable housing and affordable living concerns. Durrett's new book is a comprehensive guide...

In Exceptional Treehouses, author and treehouse builder Alain Laurens reveals 30 gorgeous treehouse structures, 25 of which are entirely new creations, all illustrated with Daniel Dufour's beautiful watercolors as well as photographs by Jacques Delacroix, commissioned specially for this book.As in his first book,...

Author: Hassan FathyISBN-10: 0226239160ISBN-13: 9780226239163Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2000Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.10h x 5.43w x 0.80d

Exemplary residential and public buildings from the acclaimed Guadalajara firmElias Rizo Arquitectos is an architecture studio based in Guadalajara, Mexico, regularly featured in DesignBoom, Arch Daily and elsewhere. Primarily known for its residential buildings, the office develops projects of various scales, ranging from houses,...

SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMESA shipping container home is a more affordable option for home ownership, as you can build a new construction for far less than it costs to build a conventional home. They require fewer materials to build, and the materials are often much...

As the need for affordable, eco-friendly housing continues to rise, so does the bar for attractive, easy-to-construct designs from today's architects. In A House in a Week: Prefab Houses we've gathered the most innovative and thoughtfully planned homes, prefabricated to perfection. From a desert...

The low-slung brick home that architect John Saunders Chase completed for his own family in 1959 was Houston's first modernist house with a true interior courtyard, a form with which other progressive architects were only starting to experiment. It was equally radical that he...

Three hundred years ago, in 1721, the 'Dutch engraver' Johannes Kip (or John Kip, his anglicised name) dropped down dead in St John's Street, Westminster, bringing to a sudden end his career in England of more than thirty years as a renowned printmaker. Gloucestershire...

This book is the first systematic collection and discussion of dwellings in the Umayyad 'cities' (madāʾin) and 'palaces' (quṣūr) of Bilād al-Shām. Giuseppe Labisi offers an overview of the apartments within and identifies the architectural models that inspired Umayyad dwellings. This study also allows...

Forms an important and useful reference for architects, interior designers, and home owners Richly illustrated with 27 case studies from around the globe Provides detailed analysis of the process undergone in each case study Includes helpful before and after pictures An inspiring guide showcasing...

A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon, and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on twelve New Zealand buildings--from churches to houses. Drawing on interviews...

Breathtaking houses that are built lovingly with noble materials and heritage methods, always presented in profound conversation with nature. JLF Architects, based in Bozeman, Montana, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, believe first and foremost that architecture should be rooted in its particular place, responding in...

Creating Coromandel explores the decade-long partnership between architect and designer Marco Zanuso and the South African fashion retailer Sydney Arnold Press and Press's wife Victoria de Luria Press, whose shared passion for design spurred them to create Coromandel - part building, part ruin, part...

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the socially...

Do you want to age independently in your own home and neighborhood? Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people...

John Crafford, who emigrated from Scotland in 1753 to find a better future in America, fled the life he had built for himself and his family in Massachusetts to start all over again thirty years later. He was one of some fifty thousand New...

From the highly successful 150 Best series, the ultimate resource for single home buyers and owners, architects, developers, and designers, filled with contemporary, fresh ideas for sustainable construction and gorgeous interiors, vividly captured in hundreds of stunning four-color photographs.150 Best All New House Ideas...

A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small...

The aura and romance of Old California lives on in this treasury of inviting homes. The California House presents the magic of the "golden state," that land of infinite promise and dreams, the most tangible expression of which can be found in the homes...

New Orleans was a melting pot of Spanish and French culture, in a climate that forced a uniquely American architecture. More than 260 images present the wide verandahs, hipped and gabled roofs, neo-classical sensibilities, and lavish iron lacework that give this region its unique...

The "Gilded Age," the three decades following the Civil War, were years of astounding economic growth. Vast empires in oil, shipping, mining, banking, lumber, transportation, and related industries were formed. It was an era in which fortunes were made and lost quickly, almost easily;...

This work deals with every aspect of the traditional Japanese home, from its general plan and major structural features to such ceremonial and traditional appointments as the tatami mats (which actually determine the size of the house), lamps, hibachi (braziers), fusuma and shoji screens,...

Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban AmericaAs the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms...

Marie Rose Wong peers through the lens of single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels to capture the 157-year origin story of Seattle's pan-Asian International District. This gorgeous, meticulous book layers together interviews, maps, and insights from over a decade of primary research to provide an urgent...

A change is taking place all across the country and especially on the West Coast, a shift led by the younger generations. People who in years past might have headed for the suburbs are instead moving to the city or choosing not to leave....

Turn Your Dream of Living in a Shipping Container Home Into Reality Shipping container houses are contemporary and eco-friendly. They are a fantastic alternative to traditional home construction and can save you money and time. Homes constructed from shipping containers are a trend that...

This is the first book on the architecture of Kay Fisker (1893-1965), a leading exponent of Danish Functionalism. Influenced by Louis Sullivan, Fisker had a strong belief in continuity, putting modernism in perspective, and identifying precedents. He built many large scale housing schemes, mostly...

Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative and provided new building types for weekends, sport, and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes...

Prefabricated architecture is becoming an important trend in the world of contemporary design. Modularity allows for greater design flexibility and makes homes more affordable, while architectural projects made with recycled loading containers are becoming increasingly popular--and increasingly necessary given the need for more sustainable...