Arranged by style, offers information, advice, and design tips on lighting, color, accessories, and flooring for one hundred and one bedrooms, ranging from country and classic to contemporary, budget, and Bohemian. View More...
This collection covers such Southern styles as Stucco, Colonial, Floridian, Acadian, Country and more. Inside you will find home plans that range from modest to luxurious in both single and two stories. View More...
Wright believed that the home was the center of family life, of individual freedom, a place of repose. As this book shows, his ideal home took on an amazing variety of forms, but was always built using natural materials and colors, and was always a work of art. Included here are his Prairie houses; revolutionary designs in California built of concrete blocks; the famous Fallingwater; and Taliesin West, his home in the desert. View More...
In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes--among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, and Boston's Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofoun... View More...
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From ancient Chinese civilization to the postmodern world Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture presents an innovative approach to the study of architectural history. Spanning from 3,500 B.C.E. to the present, this unique guide is written by an all-star team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history. The architectural history of the world comes to life through a unified framework for interpreting and understanding architecture, supplemented by rich drawings from... View More...
They're coming for how long? This utterly charming guide brings together inspiration and advice for planning a visit that's relaxing and enjoyable for guest and host alike. From invitations no one could refuse to advice on furnishing a cozy guest bedroom and stocking a well-appointed bath, A Gracious Welcome is a refreshing approach to sharing the home turf with family and friends. Ranging from luxurious craft projects such as handmade bath salts to simple additions like a bedside bouquet of sweet-smelling flowers, here are pages of ways to make every guest feel welcome. Whether home is a bung... View More...
A warm and humorous account of the trials of creating a place to call home. To longtime Giles fans and new readers alike, these reminiscences of family, friends, a river, and a roof offer a charming visit to rural Kentucky in the late 1950s.
The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since... View More...
The full-page layout of photographs by architectural photographer Hedrich Blessing, which show the magnificent skyscrapers of Chicago in a variety of complementary light conditions, reproduce the popular Chicago Architecture Foundation tours. An informative text accompanies the photos on the facing View More...
This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching's signature style. View More...
Filled with design ideas and practical work tips, this workbook guides the reader through the remodelling process, from small dormer windows to entire second floors. Question-and-answer sections offer solutions to common problems. View More...
A fully illustrated, detailed how-to covering every phase of construction from soil and blocks to heating, electricity, plumbing, interiors, exteriors and landscaping. O'Connor was a civil engineer with considerable knowledge of adobe construction. View More...
This book tells the story of adobe, sun-dried brick houses, popular in the desert Southwest and California. It is a story that travels from Asia and North America to the Iberian Peninsula, from the history-filled Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the homes of the famous inhabitants in the hills of Taos. It is a book that is both historical and cultural. View More...
This text introduces basic drafting concepts and applies them to specific architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) problems. No prior knowledge of drafting is required. The Criterion Reference Instructional (CRI) format is used to teach drafting by presenting information and immediately reinforcing skills with practice exercises. The text focuses on gaining a solid understanding of all basic drafting techniques found in the construction industry for both residential and commercial structures, not on materials used. An overview of construction industry drafting is presented in Chapter... View More...
-- Money-saving tips for furniture and other projects. -- Learn to enhance furniture affordably. -- Provides full-color photos of how-to directions. View More...
Completely revised and updated, this is the liveliest and most wide-ranging guide ever written about Chicago's amazing architecture Thousands of visitors flock to Chicago every year - just for the architecture...and the blues, and the food, and... The AIA Guide to Chicago, Second Edition, showcases more than 1,000 individual buildings, along with more than 400 photographs - many taken expressly for this volume - plus 35 specially commissioned walking maps. The book is arranged geographically so that the user can tour each area of the city as conveniently as possible. Building descriptions focu... View More...
Now in its eighth edition, this work aims to be an ideal starting point for all practitioners and covers the broad range of injunctions in one volume. The author's practical treatment provides a description of the jurisdiction of the court to grant injunctions, as well as guidance on practice and procedure and Mareva injunctions and Anton Piller orders. The coverage spans all areas of the law, with particular attention paid to matrimonial and domestic proceedings. In addition, there are over 20 useful precedents, which, in conjunction with the procedural points, should make this an indispensab... View More...
This lively guidebook surveys four hundred buildings within the Atlanta metropolitan area--from the sleek marble and glass of the Coca-Cola Tower to the lancet arches and onion domes of the Fox Theater, from the quiet stateliness of Roswell's antebellum mansions to the art-deco charms of the Varsity grill. Published in conjunction with the Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it combines historical, descriptive, and critical commentary with more than 250 photographs and area maps. As the book makes clear, Atlanta has two faces: the "Traditional City," striving to strike a b... View More...
