Architecture - Buildings - Residential

Eastern North Carolina boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in the state, from colonial churches and antebellum plantation houses to the imperiled lighthouses of the late nineteenth century. The more recent history of this predominantly agricultural region includes landscapes of small...

Author: Katie EllisISBN-10: 8987482014ISBN-13: 9798987482018Publisher: 83 PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2023Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 11.57h x 10.31w x 1.02d

Residential Kitchen and Bath Design provides students with a core knowledge of this interior design sub-specialty and equips them with skills they can use to create residential kitchens and baths that are both functional and beautiful. The text begins with an overview of the...

Columbine High School Massacre: The FBI Files contains the actual original and declassified criminal investigation files related to the April 20, 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Littleton, Colorado. Fifteen students and teachers were killed and twenty three were injured...

Author: Richard C. Beacham, Hugh DenardISBN-10: 1316510948ISBN-13: 9781316510940Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2023Pages: 552Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.75lbsSize: 10.79h x 8.27w x 0.79d

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.The most widely...

Due to a lack of funds and burn out, Atulya K Bingham found herself camping alone on a remote Turkish hill. There was no power or water on the land, and she knew nothing about outdoor survival. It was the start of an adventure...

Updated 2023 edition. The Home Inspection Business and Mold Testing is one of the fastest-growing businesses today. It is ideal for starting part-time and before you know it, you will have a full-time business with a great income.Over 180 pages. Very little start-up cost....

The most comprehensive book on Mobile Homes. This is a nuts and bolts description of how to make money from mobile homes. I have no intention of talking you into this plan by giving brainwashing example after example of the deals. I am also...

With the advent or possibility of remote work for many of us these past few years, more and more people are opting to relocate from urban enclaves with their families and pursue a new and more nourishing lifestyle in a rural setting. Thanks to...

Building or rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might say their greatest achievement. This is the first book to look at the building of country houses as a whole. Creating Paradise shows why owners...

From the mid-1940s, state housing authorities in Australia built large housing estates to enable home ownership by working-class families, but the public housing system they created is now regarded as broken. Contemporary problems with the sustainability, effectiveness and reputation of the Australian public housing...

Architectural DrawingsAuthor: Paulo ZavalaISBN-10: 1958004707ISBN-13: 9781958004708Publisher: Ink Start MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2023Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.98d

Architectural DrawingsAuthor: Paulo ZavalaISBN-10: 1958004693ISBN-13: 9781958004692Publisher: Ink Start MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2023Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.48lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.13d

A captivating exploration of Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.***TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK*** 'A punchy polemic ... Highly readable.' 'A love letter to contemporary buildings and a fantastic account of recent British history, rich in humour.'...

Island Homes and Casual Elegance in Design presents the beautiful yet unpretentious new homes, residential renovations, and commercial buildings designed by Honolulu-based Peter Vincent Architects. A boutique firm founded in 1992, PVA specializes in custom-built architecture in a broad spectrum of styles and genres....

Mexico City-based architect Rozana Montiel conducted research in three housing rehabilitation projects in Mexico City, Veracruz and Zacatecas. HU compiles her observations and subsequent design solutions, serving as a guide to transforming the common spaces of these housing units into habitable, functional space.Author: Carlos...

Author: Gunter Pfeifer, G?ter Pfeifer, Per BrauneckISBN-10: 3035603286ISBN-13: 9783035603286Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2015Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.65lbsSize: 11.00h x 9.00w x 1.20d

In 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, published A Home for All, or a New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building in which he announced that the octagon house with its eight sides enclosed more space than a square one with equal wall space. The...

CELLOPHANE HOUSE(TM) chronicles the design and execution of a five-story, off-site fabricated home assembled on-site in just sixteen days as part of The Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Through a series of questions, the book explores several of...

What are tire houses? Who builds them? How do they do it? Will I see the tires when the house is finished? How weird are they? Can I do it myself?You'll find the answers to these questions and more in this book that "Earth...

During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location--and work long hours in...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

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...

This book examines how Pompeian peristyle gardens were utilized to represent the socioeconomic status of Roman homeowners, introducing fresh perspectives on how these spaces were designed, used, and perceived. Pompeian Peristyle Gardens provides a novel understanding of how the domus was planned, utilized, and...

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating. Condominiums are proliferating the world over and transforming the socio-spatial organization of cities and residential life. The collection assembles arguably the most...

Turn Your Dream of Living in a Shipping Container Home Into RealityThis book contains everything you need to know to turn your dream of living in a home constructed from shipping containers into a reality.Chances are you've seen them on the road or on...

Wood has undergone quite an image change - as future and trend researcher Matthias Horx puts in a nutshell: "Wood is Style". It has come out of the corner of the traditional and rustic and moved to the top of high-tech building materials. In...

This interdisciplinary volume investigates the legacy of detached single-family homes built between the '50s and '80s in Germany--from their place in everyday life and popular culture to how they are affected by changing welfare regimes, demographics and the implementation of ecological frameworks in the...

Want to escape?If you've ever dreamed of having a little me-time away from the hustle bustle demands of everyday life, the Escape Place is the book for you. Author Lyn Vandebrake shares her personal story of acquiring an escape place of her own, an...

The houses that Studio Pali Fekete Architects have created over the past decade focus on basics: flowing spaces, abundant natural light, and generous proportions. For this Los Angeles firm, modernism is not a matter of style or ideology, but rather a commonsense approach to...

Can an architect pass through walls? Can the city permeate a house? In The Dissolution of Buildings, architect Angelo Bucci presents projects in his native S o Paulo and abroad. Advocating an architecture that is "the opposite of global action," his work responds to...

Beautifully designed and printed on high quality paper, this is both a coffee table book to be admired and a practical guide explaining the stories of how the houses were built and conceived. The book features stunning photographs from the thirty-nine individually designed homes...

This book, which fills a gap on the materiality of lived relations, examines households within the context of their immediate physical surroundings of home and shows how human interactions are reflected in built forms. Houses are dynamic participants in family life in many ways....

What will House Us tomorrow? How have our lifestyles changed in recent years that might demand new forms of living? Can we rearrange or redistribute existing models to fit our needs? Or, must entirely new visions be speculated upon?In the 21st century, lifestyles that...

Branded a no-good runt and repeatedly told he was a mistake and would never amount to anything, Lionel Mayell set out to prove everyone wrong. By age 39, he had made and lost a fortune, failed at two marriages, and was convinced that the...

Retronesia: The Years of Building Dangerously is the first must-have guide to Indonesia's most creative architectural period. Be inspired by the beauty and verve of 1950s and 60s Indonesia when professional architects were a rarity, but the talent pool was overflowing with adventurers. At...

A reprint of an 1890's catalog of a Stockholm manufacturer of wooden houses, with floor plans and perspective drawings of 86 pavilions, bathinghouses, balconies, verandas, kiosks, and dwelling houses.Author: J. O. WengstromsISBN-10: 1589639804ISBN-13: 9781589639805Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2002Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.25h x...

Modern living typically represents the compromising of a diverse number of considerations in place of the practical. We make our dwellings conform to our lifestyles, but most in the end are constrained by issues of space or cost. For the houses featured in this...

The Ultimate Guide to Shipping Container Homes Out of all the possible building materials available for homes, the last thing you might expect to hear about is shipping containers - yes, the same steel, rectangular containers seen on trucks and ships going across the...

Sustainable Housing: A Systems-based Approach introduces students to the issues and processes that must be considered when developing sustainable housing, particularly housing that can approach net-zero energy performance. The book considers the history of American thinking as it relates to the environment and development....

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between...

Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique. 　 Self-built houses born from need, in haste and with limited economical resources are often considered to be temporary structures...

A beautifully illustrated guide to building a cabin in the wilderness, packed with practical advice and insights into of the history of cabin culture around the world. Throughout history, people around the world have built cabins as homes, retreats, and even follies. In recent...

Welcome to the beating heart of the home! From Scandinavian design to vintage style, this book shows what's cooking.In today's world, the kitchen has become much more than a space for cooking--it's where families gather, friends bond, and memories are made. Kitchen Interiors showcases...

After inheriting a seventeenth-century Tuscan villa, Ned Lambton and his wife, Marina, lovingly restored the estate as a retreat for family and friends. With newly commissioned photographs by Simon Upton, Lambton brings to life the rich history of the villa, its redecoration, its raucous...

Roman Housing describes domestic architecture throughout the Roman empire, from Britain to Egypt, from the origins of empire to the sixth century AD. During this period an empire-wide aristocratic culture was formed, and Simon Ellis marks the stages in Roman expansion and examines the...

Whether creating enormous exhibition spaces or designing living quarters for collectors and homes and studio facilities for artists, the acclaimed architect Max Gordon (1931-1990) shaped the physical settings of art in the world's major metropolises during his influential career. Following several decades of work...

Author: Lee PerryISBN-10: 0595010830ISBN-13: 9780595010837Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.12h x 5.94w x 0.78d

This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and architecture. Hotels occupy a particular place...