Architecture: residential Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd A Global Strategy for Housing in the Third Millennium Technology in the Third Millennium S
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Taylor & Francis English Houses 13001800
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Taylor & Francis Ltd EcoRefurbishment A Practical Guide to Creating an Energy Efficient Home
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Taylor & Francis Architects Pocket Book of Kitchen Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernist Semis and Terraces in England Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dublins Bourgeois Homes
Book SynopsisIn 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields. The Victorian house had arrived: wide red brick structures stood back behind manicured front lawns. Over the next forty years, an estimated 35,000 of these homes were constructed in the fields surrounding the city. The most elaborate were built for Dublin's upper middle classes, distinguished by their granite staircases and decorative entrances. Today, they are some of the Irish capital's most highly valued structures, and are protected under strict conservation laws.Dublin's Bourgeois Homes is the first in-depth analysis of the city's upper middle-class houses. Focusing on the work of three entrepreneurial developers, Susan Galavan follows in their footsteps as they speculated in house building: signing leases, acquiring plots and sourcing bricks and mortar. She analyses a select range of homes in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (nowTrade Review"Galavan’s presentation of histories is mediated through portraits and other illustrations… The familiar becomes extraordinary. Descriptions of materials and stone-quarrying, along with readings of brilliant masters and doctoral research give the reader access to highly specialised knowledge."Ellen Rowley, History Ireland"Aside from the architectural evolution that Galavan traces, there is an interesting analysis of how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of Dublin’s Victorian Upper-Middle classes. She demonstrates how the internal layout articulates the relationship between master and servant, male and female, adult and child."Deirdre Conroy, Irish Arts Review"[…] Susan Galavan’s book represents an immensely welcome restitution of a traditional strand in construction history. It also has a new ingredient. Since she is an architect as well as a historian she takes a particular interest in the planning of suburban houses and she illustrates her arguments with plans and drawings of the kind which only the Survey of London can match [...] .for anyone interested in the Victorian building world, whether they have been to Dublin or not, this is an admirably rounded account of processes which are all too easily overlooked."Robert Thorne, Construction History"Galavan’s presentation of histories is mediated through portraits and other illustrations… The familiar becomes extraordinary. Descriptions of materials and stone-quarrying, along with readings of brilliant masters and doctoral research give the reader access to highly specialised knowledge."Ellen Rowley, History Ireland"Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes is a comprehensive analysis of the 19th-century development of Dublin’s prosperous inner suburbs […] Galavan’s book provides fascinating insight into both the architecture of the houses and the ways in which these still much sought-after suburbs evolved […] its rigorous analysis of house typologies is presented in an engaging and meaningful way, making it accessible to the non-expert. In an era of ever-increasing awareness of the importance of conservation of architectural heritage, this book provides context for home owners who struggle to understand the merits of conservation and helps to elucidate the enduring legacy of the residential architecture beyond a single generation."Carole Pollard, Architectural Histories (EAHN)"[…] Susan Galavan’s book represents an immensely welcome restitution of a traditional strand in construction history. It also has a new ingredient. Since she is an architect as well as a historian she takes a particular interest in the planning of suburban houses and she illustrates her arguments with plans and drawings of the kind which only the Survey of London can match [...] .for anyone interested in the Victorian building world, whether they have been to Dublin or not, this is an admirably rounded account of processes which are all too easily overlooked."Robert Thorne, Construction History"Aside from the architectural evolution that Galavan traces, there is an interesting analysis of how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of Dublin’s Victorian Upper-Middle classes. She demonstrates how the internal layout articulates the relationship between master and servant, male and female, adult and child."Deirdre Conroy, Irish Arts Review"The breadth of this study is impressive and goes well beyond an architectural history of Dublin’s Victorian suburbs. […] For anyone seeking to understand the long-term impact which Georgian design had on suburban Dublin, how middle-class Victorians lived and how the modern city has been shaped by its Victorian ancestors, this book is a must."Lisa Marie Griffith, Irish Economic and Social History 46(I)"Galavan is adept at reading the nuances of the house plan, developing a reasoned exposition of its variation over time and making an equally convincing analysis of its three-dimensional expression. She brings the characters and motives of three Dublin business men firmly into focus while also uncovering the imperial and family networks that enabled them to amass substantial property fortunes."Finola O'Kane, Urban HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The architecture of Dublin’s bourgeois homes 2 The domestic realm: inside the semi-detached house 3 Control: land tenure and infrastructure 4 Builders, speculators and labourers 5 Process: building materials Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press The Italian Renaissance Palace Fa Ade
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Cambridge University Press The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France 18401914
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Cambridge University Press Venetian Vernacular Architecture
Book SynopsisThis 1989 study provides an authoritative account of the villages of the Venetian lagoon's architectural style and development and a companion volume to Dr Goy's Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon (1985). The book offers an encyclopaedic and fully illustrated guide on the building process.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary of terms; Part I. Building in the Venetian Lagoon: 1. General introduction; 2. The lagunar environment; 3. An historical introduction; 4. Building materials and their sources; 5. Methods of construction and vernacular details; 6. The guild system and the building crafts; 7. The economics of building in the lagoon; Part II. Housing Typology: 8. The city Palazzo-Fòntego: its structure and appearance; 9. Derivations from the Palazzo-Fòntego in the city; 10. Housing typology in the lagoon villages: an introduction; Part III. The Architecture of the Lagoon: an Illustrated Survey: 12. Murano; 13. Burano: a village of fishermen's cottages; 14. Pellestrina; 14. The rural and semi-rural environment: Mazzorbo, Torcello and Malamocco; 15. Conclusions; Postscript; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
£41.79
Cambridge University Press Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Chinese Vernacular Dwellings Introductions to Chinese Culture
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Cambridge University Press The Place Vendôme
Book SynopsisThe author explores the sociological foundations of domestic design in eighteenth-century France, the acknowledged leader of domestic architecture in this period. Ziskin explores the manner in which the dwellings of the Place Vendome embodied beliefs about the nature of society and the appropriate relations among social groups.Table of Contents1. Louis XIV's Parisian place royale reconceived; 2. Sociological representation and gendered realms; 3. Typology at the Place Vendôme; 4. The Regency and its aftermath; 5. 'Not at all Monsieur Jourdain...'; 6. Mobility, adaptation, and reconstruction; 7. Collecting, the Caisse and the Boudoir: the Place Vendôme at the end of the Old Regime; 8. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Italian Renaissance Palace Fa Ade
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 150 Best Apartment Ideas
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This book also expresses the diversity of trends in apartment design.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Apartments Defining Style 1 Design
Book SynopsisFrom the placement of an antique French cabinet in a 1920s Rosario Candela apartment in New York City, to the replacement of mirrored halls for concrete floors in an oceanside deck in Palm Beach, this book offers practical guidelines for building, buying, or renovating to create the perfect home, revealing how to create homes of beauty and grace.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 150 Best New Apartment Ideas by Canizares Ana G
Book SynopsisFresh ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers a collection of apartments from all over the world, providing ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the advances in contemporary residential architecture.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 150 Best of the Best Loft Ideas
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Open Concept Apartments
Book SynopsisThe ultimate resource for modern apartment design and renovation, featuring hundreds of creative ideas from around the world, curated by the author of Open Concept Houses and the 150 Best design series.With the explosion in popularity of urban living, more people are trading houses for high-rises.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 150 Best New Cottage and Cabin Ideas
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 150 New Best of the Best House Ideas
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Big Tiny
Book SynopsisPart how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life. More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer Dee Williams that life is short. So, she sold her sprawling home and built an eighty-four-square-foot house—on her own, from the ground up. Today, Williams can list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her about ten minutes to clean the entire house. Adapting a new lifestyle left her with the ultimate luxury—more time to spend with friends and family—and gave her the freedom to head out for adventure at a moment’s notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch.Trade Review“Visitors to [Dee Williams’] property may be forgiven for thinking someone had taken up residence in a beautifully built pine-and-cedar toolshed out back….[an] affecting memoir…she writes in The Big Tiny of finding a centeredness and peace in her little house, of being less fearful, more alive. Some of the best passages are when she describes the sensory experience of being inside: smelling raw cedar and knotty pine; listening to the weather.”—Steven Kurutz, The New York Times“[N]o one makes the idea of living in a home the size of an area rug more appealing than Dee Williams…Williams’ inspiring memoir will resonate with anyone on a quest to downsize, de-stress, let go or feel at home…an endearing, funny writer…[The Big Tiny] is a book as intimate and draw-you-in-close as Williams' little abode. She reveals her fear and fearlessness, allowing readers to feel like visitors across her tiny table, knees touching, her dog by your side.”—Janet Eastman, The Oregonian“[A] delightful encounter with the Tina Fey of the sustainability world, an empowered woman unafraid to admit she accidentally glued her hair to her house, as well as an incisive thinker on contemporary experience….a hilarious and poignant memoir…Williams does more than share the travails of building, moving into and living in her bitty abode. She writes a down-to-earth manifesto for living life with intention and for geeking out, diving in, caring too deeply and trying too hard in general.”—Mary Louise Schumacher, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“In The Big Tiny, Dee Williams creates a portrait of humanity through her own compelling experience. That she has written about home and life with such humor and vulnerability, and in her own unique vernacular, makes her story all the more universal.”—Jay Shafer, author of The Small House Book“Williams has built an engaging and inspiring how-to/memoir that goes beyond the DIY perspective.”—Booklist “The Big Tiny is irresistible. Dee Williams is as much fun on the page as she is in person. Comic, silly, and soulful, she takes us on her journey to simplify her life and along the way tunes in to our own inner desire to pare down to our nearly naked selves.”—Jim Lynch, author of The Highest Tide and Truth Like the Sun “The Big Tiny is a beautifully written narrative, one that goes beyond happiness and living simply. The power of Dee’s words will touch your heart, make you laugh, cry, and change your life.”—Tammy Strobel, author of You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap) “The Big Tiny is comedic, eloquent, and damn informative all at the same time. If Dee Williams’ story hasn’t inspired you to reevaluate your life already, this book just may be the swift kick in the pants you need—the final awakening blow all rolled into one biblio-burrito of bad-assness.”—Derek “Deek” Diedricksen, HGTV host and honcho of Relaxshacks.com “Dee Williams aims for happiness 85 percent of the time, but I think you’ll be 100 percent happy with the wisdom she shares in this beautiful book.”—Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup
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Alfred A. Knopf A Field Guide To American Houses Revised
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WW Norton & Co The Decoration of Houses Classical America Series
Book SynopsisIn addition to her fame as a novelist, Edith Wharton has now been recognized as an arbiter of taste and correct usage in the making of domestic interior rooms, and Odgen Codman, Jr., has achieved recognition as a revivalist architect of the first rank.
£17.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc BIM in SmallScale Sustainable Design
Book Synopsis"Any architect doing small or medium scaled projects who is also vested in sustainable design but is not yet doing BIM will enjoy this book's overall focus. "-Architosh.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix Building Information Models and Modeling ix The cost of buildings ix See, change x BIM for the rest of us xi What this book is, and isn’t xii A word on the case studies xiii 1 BIM and Sustainable Design 1 The emergence of Building Information Modeling 1 BIM for design 6 High-performance architecture 16 Case study: Moonrise Ranch 23 2 Design Software 29 BIM applications 29 Complementary software 38 Further reading 49 Case Study: Parameterized Hauer Curtain Wall 49 3 Site Analysis 55 Developing a site model 57 Analyzing the site 65 Case Study: House in Sonoma 74 4 Massing Analysis 79 Creating massing models 79 Perimeter/volume ratios: optimizing for envelope quantity 83 Confi rming desirable and undesirable views 85 Preliminary cost and feasibility analysis 87 Preliminary passive heating and cooling design data 89 Case Study: New High School 100 5 Solar Geometry and Daylighting 105 Shade from the sun 106 Daylighting 116 Case Study: Ross Street House 128 6 Passive Cooling 133 Appropriate responses for local climates 135 Rules of thumb and sizing guidelines for cooling strategies 139 Case Study: Hadlow College Rural Regeneration Centre 153 7 Passive Heating 159 Rules of thumb and sizing guidelines for heating strategies 160 Whole-building heat loss 162 Whole-building heat gain 170 Case Study: Battelle Darby Creek Environmental Center 177 8 Onsite Energy Systems 183 Solar photovoltaics 185 Azimuth and elevation 192 Solar thermal systems 192 Wind turbines 197 Case Study: Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction 200 9 Building Hydrology 205 Site design for water 206 Rainwater harvesting 209 Plumbing fi xture effi ciency 214 Sizing constructed wetlands 215 Gutter sizing 220 Case Study: Bee Ranch 221 10 Materials and Waste 225 Material takeoffs and cost calculations 225 Advanced framing 232 Sheet materials 237 Preliminary life cycle analysis 239 LEED material calculations 243 Case Study: Loblolly House 245 11 Collaboration 249 Imported backgrounds 249 Exporting fi les 251 Project coordination 264 Case Study: Paisano Senior Housing 272 Afterword 275 Bibliography and References 279 Index 283
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Designing the Sustainable Site
Book SynopsisHere is a design manual for those interested in gaining the knowledge and skills necessary for achieving sustainability in residential settings. The book introduces the concept of regenerative design whereby built landscapes sustain and restore vital ecological functions.Trade Review"Venhaus's book is carefully organized and offers clear, concise guidance on how to deal with sites in ways that uphold both livability and ecological functions. Designing the Sustainable Site ranges from big-picture explanations of current ecological thinking to detailed techniques that can be applied at the level of the individual site." (Better! Cities & Towns, September 2012)Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Building a Sustainable Future Chapter 2. The Sustainable Site Design Process Chapter 3. Human Health and Well-Being Chapter 4. Sustainable Solutions: Air Pollution Chapter 5. Sustainable Solutions: Urban flooring and water pollution Chapter 6. Sustainable Solutions: Water Shortages Chapter 7. Sustainable Solutions: Invasive SpeciesW. Matthew McCaw Chapter 8. Sustainable Solutions: Loss of BiodiversityW. Matthew McCaw Index.
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. Whitemarsh Hall The Estate of Edward T Stotesbury
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Homes in a Box Modern Homes from Sears Roebuck
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd saltboxandcapecodhouses
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd CHILDRENS PLAYHOUSES Plans and Ideas Schiffer
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bright Ideas Sunrooms and Conservatories Schiffer
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Traditional Mexican Style Exteriors
Book SynopsisA Tucson-based dealer in antique Mexican and Native American arts, McMenamin has traveled extensively in Mexico. With a minimum of text, the 300 color photographs in this volume provide the reader with a vicarious, visual tour of the facades, doors, gates, porches, patios, columns, fountains, canter
£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Log Home Lifestyles
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Log Timber Frame Homes A Schiffer design book
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Retaining Walls A Building Guide and Design
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Waterfront Homes
Book SynopsisNothing matches the serenity and beauty of waterfront living. This book offers an insider's tour of more than 60 waterfront homes. Featured are multimillion dollar castles, rustic cottages, cliffhangers, and all those homes in between.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pools Patios and Fabulous Outdoor Living Spaces
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Log Home Lifestyles
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd barnstyleliving
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Cliffhangers and Hillside Homes
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd California Colonial Homes Case Studies with
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd ARTISAN CRAFTEKINDERD TIMBER FRAME HOMES Schiffer
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Shingle Style Homes
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Gingerbread Gems of Willimantic Connecticut
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Fences Gates Walls
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Log Home Inspirations Schiffer Books
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated book offers you an opportunity to explore 18 private log homes and getaway cabins. Acclaimed architectural photographer Roger Wade takes readers from the mountains of Arizona through the Midwest and on into the eastern coastline states, illustrating a diverse collection of log home styles. Homeowners, decorators, and architects alike will be inspired by the tremendous diversity of furnishings and decor, as well as enjoy the opportunity to study architectural details graced by different log styles, corner systems, and finishes. Floor plans will guide you as you explore these homes inside and out. This is the perfect book for anyone considering building a log home, or for those who've already built and are looking for unique decorating ideas for their very own dream home.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd HISTORIC LOG CABINS Past and Present
Book SynopsisAn incredible collection of imagery takes you on a tour of old and new log homes, offering restorers and new homebuilders alike a chance to recreate architectural traditions in a home for today's family. There's inspiration for every room inside, as well as the exteriors of structures that are part of time-honored landscapes. Examine details of log finishing and chinking, staircases, windows, doorways, and floors that work together to frame the log home lifestyle. Hundreds of photos make this a priceless reference for planning and furnishing your dream log cabin.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Natural Building Creating Communities Through
Book SynopsisThis brilliant book combines the wisdom of a great reference tool with the wonder of an inspiration guidebook. Basics in foundations, framing, wall systems, and roofs are explored through the shared experiences of teachers, students, and seekers who came together one summer to build a folly and created a legacy. The value of natural building is told in four parallel stories. At its core is a primer on low-impact and very accessible building techniques, materials, and approaches. Even more, it is a narrative of shared experience and camaraderie. The book yields insights about the value of teaching in a mentoring, experiential, and enabling manner. It is also a glimpse into how natural building projects -- when done with care and purpose -- can re-stitch the fabric of community lost to so many.
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