The pine furniture and tools gathered in this book have come from distant places in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia. Painted with cheer...

A concise, full-colour visitor’s guide to dozens of historical churches scattered throughout Vancouver Island, from humble country chapels to soari...

Tour homes in Plainfield, New Jersey, many of which have sheltered several generations. Images of brick, wood, and stone buildings and their occupa...

Community planner Susan Guyette presents the first field-tested model of development planning that addresses the special concerns of Native America...

Important examples of realised objects show the interplay of use of nature resources, and the building technology that is added on. Natural ventila...

History, industry, and architecture come alive in this book documenting the six-year transformation of one of the Southeast's largest buildings int...

You don't have to travel beyond the backyard to experience pure luxury. This book will show you how to transform your lawn into a personal paradise...

Think Art Deco and be transported to the Roaring '20s, a time of flappers, double-breasted, pin striped suits, speakeasies, decadence, and elegance...

Post and beam construction has captured the imagination of people from all corners of the world for hundreds of years. Now, in nearly 400 color ima...

Look into America's most notable corporate atriums, boardrooms, lobbies, seating areas, and executive offices and experience their powerful interio...

The first international Utzon Symposion brings together international architects and academics, who have known, worked with and or written about Jø...

William Lumpkin's residential designs speak volumes about the fusion of styles -- Spanish colonial, Pueblo, Art Deco -- in the Southwest. This book...

When this book first came out, in 1908, it was touted as the "largest single book of house designs ever published." Here are 252 renderings of Arts...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a unique collection of architectural works -- the Caroline Wiess Law Building, comprising the original William...

Intent on realising her late husband's vision, Dorothy de Rothschild first offered to provide funding for a new building housing the Supreme Court ...

Test in English & German. The town hall in Bremen with its associated Roland statue in the market square in front of the building make up a UNE...

Created in 1933, the Historic American Buildings Society (HABS) federal programme established the first systematic identification and documentation...

Created in 1933, the Historic American Buildings Society (HABS) federal programme established the first systematic identification and documentation...

Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnic...

TEXT IN GERMAN. Architecture started to move towards Modernism around 1900 with a reform movement involving architects, art critics, humanities sch...

What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for Northern Cali...

What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southern...

Text in English and German. The extensive built work of the 1925 born Reinhard Gieselmann, focussing on housing and church architecture, is charact...