Architecture - Buildings - Residential

Sometimes seen as an absence of color, white in fact reflects the purity of the entire spectrum. In the history of design, white houses often embody the bright, clean clarity associated with twentieth-century giants Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Richard Meier....

Long celebrated for its magnificent beach and bush environments, Australia is becoming equally renowned for its city living. More than ever before, the country's high-quality lifestyle is essentially urban, catered to by a profusion of cultural venues, restaurants, bars, cafes, hotels, sports clubs and...

Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!There is an increased interest among architects, urban specialists and design professionals to contribute to solve "the housing problem" in developing countries. The Invisible Houses takes us on a journey through the slums and informal settlements of...

The idea that architecture can be portable is one that grabs the imagination of both designers and the people who use it, perhaps because it so often forecasts a dynamic and creative solution to the complex problems of our contemporary mobile society, while at...

Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader...

A highly original and innovative study that brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture...

What are the basic requirements for a home? Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces,...

A growing number of urban inhabitants are aware of pressing environmental concerns. This book aims to provide information about relevant environmental quality criteria in urban construction settings, before methods are proposed for assessing these criteria. These will be extremely helpful to eco-building designs, commencing...

An enthusiast's guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback, also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building,...

A timely investigation of the most innovative recent urban housing constructions The design of high-density housing is inextricably linked to the growth of towns and cities: as urban centers have increased in both geographical size and density, housing has had to be provided to...

This authoritative book is the first comprehensive study of domestic buildings in London from about 1200 to the Great Fire in 1666. John Schofield describes houses and such related buildings as almshouses, taverns, inns, shops, and livery company halls, drawing on evidence from surviving...

Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmony amid buildings and gardens framed upon classical ideals of proportion, balance, and the natural. In her interdisciplinary book, Dianne Harris presents...

Many homes across America have designs based on plans taken from pattern books or mail-order catalogs. In Houses from Books, Daniel D. Reiff traces the history of published plans and offers the first comprehensive survey of their influence on the structure and the style...

Author: Robert SweeneyISBN-10: 0847833275ISBN-13: 9780847833276Publisher: Rizzoli International PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2009Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.09lbsSize: 12.34h x 9.28w x 0.87d

Author: Will JonesISBN-10: 0789327260ISBN-13: 9780789327260Publisher: Rizzoli International PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2014Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 6.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case Study House #22. At its eagle's nest promontory above Los Angeles, the building is a vision of streamlined glass and steel, its slick lines echoing the twinkling city boulevards...

Written for everyone who dreams of building a house, Essence of Home provides a step-by-step look at the planning process. Author and architect Liesl Geiger presents seven elements that are crucial to the success and livability of residential structures: design origins, site and scale,...

In the academic year 2000-2001, Yale professor and New York City- based architect Peggy Deamer led two innovative courses: a focused seminar on the state of contemporary residential design and a creative studio offering house designs that drew on the discoveries of the seminar....

In April 1998, sixteen architecture firms were brought together to design single-family houses for the Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas, one of the country's lowest-income neighborhoods. Studio Works from Los Angeles, Lindy Roy from New York, Carlos Jimenez from Houston, and Stanley Saitowitz from...

Golconde is an astonishing architectural accomplishment. With technical finesse and extraordinary craft, it offers a living testament to the original modernist credo - architecture as the manifest union of technology, aesthetics, and social reform. Here exists an undiluted view of a wholly triumphant tropical...

A portrait of 35 exceptional design duos in the fields of architecture and interior design, offering a glimpse of the personal and professional partnerships they have built. In the world of architecture and interior design, true synergy is rare, but when it happens, the...

An illustrated survey of recently designed houses in and around Seattle reveals how local architects are reshaping Northwest Modernism to create homes that are deeply attuned to modern challenges and the diverse natural beauty of the region. Throughout Washington state, a new generation of...

Out There is a critical survey of 50 key architectural firms across America's regional cities and small towns. These practitioners operate at every scale and with all building types, weaving a rich architectural tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of the American landscape....

Author: Christian SchittichISBN-10: 3920034619ISBN-13: 9783920034614Publisher: DetailLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2013Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.40w x 0.70d

Embark on a transformative journey to expand your living space with "Personalized Spaces, Practical Solutions: A Beginner's Handbook to Home Extensions." This comprehensive guide demystifies the often-intimidating process of extending your home, empowering you with the knowledge and confidence to create the *personalized* space...

This provides an engineer's perspective on traditional construction methods for timber frames with infills, focusing on traditional paianta houses in Romania and minka houses in Japan to provide insights into the construction, seismic behavior, and design considerations of such structures.Author: Andreea Dutu,Yoshihiro YamazakiISBN-10: 1032521287ISBN-13:...

Offers a bold and materially grounded rethinking of design with artificial intelligence, and proposes a new model of agency distributed across material, artificial, and human actors Rooted in material philosophy and ecological design thinking, Material and Artificial Intelligence in Architecture establishes a comprehensive framework...

A book of pictorial art depicting imaginary cities in the past, future or in another world. The cities are garden cities, with wide boulevards, beautiful fountains, set in a virtual garden of Eden; with tall towers and traditional architecture.Thomas Jewusiak has been a working...

A major phenomenon that signaled the emergence of social change in the Third World after the Second World War was the rapid growth of the population of towns, and a gradual coalition of erstwhile village communities into urban centers. Housing for the poor in...

In this captivating collection of ve houses built in five different Asian-Pacific countries, Argentinian- born designer Ernesto Bedmar explores his fascination with traditional architectural styles and reinvents them for the contemporary world. Using his deep understanding of the histories and building cultures of these...

Townhouses are some of the most interesting creations of modern urban architecture. This selection of newly designed townhouses includes unconventional architectural concepts in terms of imaginative use of space and creative ways of capturing natural light.Author: Patricia MartínezISBN-10: 8416500819ISBN-13: 9788416500819Publisher: Monsa PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2019Pages:...

This book is a compilation of some of the most interesting townhouses in recent years. These homes make the most out of space in creative ways to construct light-filled spaces, endless staircases, curtain walls, and facades that spread the street, or alternately, enclose enchanting...

When much of our existing housing stock was built, lifestyles were very different. This means that a large portion of architects' work has been adapting these older buildings, rather than building afresh. The challenge, then, is to adapt our old buildings to our new...

The newest architectural trend: rolling houses in the most literal sense of the word. If not built on wheels, other forms of mobile home can easily be carried on a truck and moved to the places their owners desire. These tiny houses include main...

Energy efficiency and sustainable green standards have emerged in developed countries, particularly in the United States and Canada. This book explains this new direction in the construction of buildings through three parts, with illustrative examples of several types of homes: prefabricated, rehabilitated, and made...

How can we map the urbanization of the planet in an era of climate breakdown? The Urban Theory Lab's Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization confronts this question by assembling a series of experimental visualizations of the worldwide urban fabric. This book reverses the mainstream, city-centric...

Leading architecture platform and design authority ArchDaily inspires readers with insight into extraordinary architectural projects from around the world. ArchDaily's Guide to Good Architecture will be the first of a series of titles produced by ArchDaily and gestalten--in it, the editors will present architecture...

This is the revised edition of Patrick Seguin's 2013 volume on Jean Prouvé's Maison Démontable 6x6 Demountable House. It includes new images and layout. At the end of the Second World War, Prouvé began designing temporary houses for the homeless in Lorraine and Franche-Comté...

"Shows how far ahead of his time Prouvé really was--as early as the 1930s he was designing temporary and modular housing that could be flat-packed, shipped, bolted together on site and inhabited within a matter of hours." -Jack Self, The Architectural ReviewThough lacking any...

In the early nineteenth century, Indiana was at the intersection of ideas from the East and the frontier - resulting in a unique opportunity to express creative adaptions of residential architectural styles in America. Industrialization later in the century created a new wealth to...

Not all masterpieces scream for attention. Some wait with patience, with composure, for their genius to be felt. Joseph Biondo's Equanimity House is just such a work of art; the exceptional, hiding in plain sight. Born of a tectonic language, the structure is built...

The Inside Secrets To Building And Timber Pest InspectionsAn Inspector's Guide To Choosing Your New HomeStuart G Marsay is a chartered building and valuation surveyor, specialist residential building and timber pest inspector, and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Stuart...

The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which systematically introduces fourteen kinds of Chinese representative vernacular dwelling, such as the cave dwellings of Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, Siheyuans on Yan-Zhao Plain, Huizhou's civil buildings which can make rainwater quad flow to...

Housing Solutions through Design explores housing design with a special focus on affordability. It gives the perspectives of academics who research and teaching on housing; professionals who design and build, and students who are learning. The book foregrounds innovative approaches of the designers of...

The Throne Room in Dublin Castle was the ultimate focus of vice-regal ceremony, royal visits and many great state occasions both before and after Irish independence in 1922. It has been a touchstone of British occupation and Irish autonomy that can be analysed through...

When The Cottages of England was first published in 1929, it captured a rapidly disappearing way of life. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, Basil Oliver's photos and descriptions formed a vital record of the variety and character of the humble, yet...

Ordered chronologically, and global in scope, this book provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century. By telling the stories of these houses, it offers a fascinating biography of some of...

Whether in town or country, James Gorst's buildings are defined by a combination of modern thinking and an ingrained respect for craftsmanship and bespoke detailing, with equal weight given to architectural form and engaging, vibrant interiors, full of texture and life. This is the...

The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in...

It is written in a lucid style with the most recent advances and with theoretical discussions for easy understanding of the subject. This book cover new techniques and applications of sustainable landscaping in building design. Well labelled illustrations, diagrams, tables and figures amply support...