Here is a new, larger edition of a classic reference. From its origins on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century, this charming and practical style of house has been transplanted and modified to accommodate varying life styles from as far away as Hawai`i. Stanley Schuler has brought together the…
Who knew you could do so much with brick, concrete, stone, and even asphalt? Forget the plain old, unadorned concrete slabs of the past! Today’s landscape designers add curb appeal and value to homes using a wide pallet of colorful and textural products.
This practical guidebook will help anyone looking for ways to…
Incredibly beautiful, classic, and timeless architectural details of Mexican style are shown in over 300 color photographs of new, old, and remodeled traditional homes and gardens. From Spanish Colonial facades in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, to the best of the Mission and Spanish Eclectic homes, this…
The rustic (yet surprisingly sophisticated) design elements presented here make this an inspiring resource for cabin owners who desire more than ”cookie-cutter” décor ideas for their lakeside or mountain home. Hundreds of vintage decorating ideas are pictured within fifteen chapters that reflect a once…
Photographer Paul Clemence celebrates a revered icon of modern architecture, the Farnsworth House, located near Plano, Illinois, and designed in 1951 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Striking architetural details are captured in 20 eye-catching B & W postcards. Whether mailing or framing the stunning images,…
From the outside in, explore exquisite timber frame homes at your leisure. Floor plans serve as your tour guide, while leading architectural photographers illuminate the astonishing spaces and intimate detailing of authentic homes. Each evokes the grandeur of the inherited barn-style form, while expressing the…
Mountains, oceans, cliffs, rivers — don’t many of us want to live above the treetops? Aside from soaring views and dramatic vistas, these hillside homes designs offer practical and attractive solutions to the increasing demand for and scarcity of level land. Here are over 50 stunning hillside homes located…
Work by over 30 leading architects of the Spanish Revival movement in California during the 1920s and ’30s is featured in this beautifully illustrated book. Drawn from the era’s leading architectural journals, these case studies document the ”best of” residential design during this influential…
Guy Lowell toured Italy in the early 20th century, recording great rural villas and farmhouses. His photographs and drawings were released in two massive volumes in 1920, when the rage was on to recreate traditional Mediterranean architecture. The rage is back, and so are his books, in an even bigger compilation. In…
Dormers bring light and air into an existing space and add character and dimension to a structure’s external appearance. This invaluable book features more than 700 color pictures featuring homes and structures adorned with an awe-inspiring variety of dormer additions. The illustrations and imagery portray eve…
Hundreds of homes are shown to illustrate an inspiring variety of shutters and awnings found throughout the United States. This unique and rich collection of color imagery provides an opportunity to compare designs and installations. Exterior shutters include traditional Colonial forms, decorative and operational…
A dry-stack stonewall is a project that almost anyone can build, and it will last well over a century if built correctly. Like most projects, knowing all of the steps involved is critical to ensure a safe and solid job. This book provides thorough, step-by-step procedures for three projects using stones of various…
New Orleans was a melting pot of Spanish and French culture, in a climate that forced a uniquely American architecture. More than 260 images present the wide verandahs, hipped and gabled roofs, neo-classical sensibilities, and lavish iron lacework that give this region its unique architectural character. Enter almost…
This photographic story of three dynamic neighborhoods in Philadelphia’s twenty-first ward traces the evolution of each community as defined by its architecture. From the outstanding Tudor Historic District to elegant homes near Wissahickon Avenue, East Falls is a must-see neighborhood for connoisseurs of fine…
For those interested in creating a one-of-a-kind home in a condo or apartment building, this book offers a voyeuristic peek at the way people design, construct, and accessorize these often challenging spaces. Thirty beautifully photographed projects illustrate how their designers overcame the constraints of high-rise…
What elevates a house to best-of-class status? Find out in this insider’s look at more than fifty award-winning homes designed by nearly three dozen A+ American architects. Regardless of their size or design style, the best new and remodeled homes share common traits. They deliver eminently livable space that can…
Art and especially architecture are often seen as the exclusive realm of formally trained experts. Award-winning architects Steven and Cathi House explore the other side of that reality in a part of the world that has been at the crossroads of history for thousands of years. With more than 500 photographs and…
Australia has wildly differing topographies and climates, and its best residential architecture draws on those site conditions in inventive ways. This book illustrates the strength of the country’s shift from British-influenced Georgian-style homes to more indigenous structures attuned to the land—a movement led by…
If German interior designers have a genius, it’s for mixing modern with vintage finds and timeless classics to create looks that you don’t see anywhere else in the world. Their cultural cachet is captured in the 21 projects that rose to the top of a juried residential design competition by Munich-based…
What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for Northern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious or low budget, these resilient outdoor…
What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens
designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and
culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious
or low budget, these resilient outdoor…
The core idea for this book is the use of operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design. Examples of these verbs are expand, inflate, nest,…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Konst
Kolossen på Rhodos, Artemistemplet, fyrtornet på Faros – fantasieggande byggnadsverk som aldrig upphör att fascinera.
I Världens sju underverk bjuder Dick Harrison oss med till den hellenistiska världen och går till botten med varför några forntida turistmål blivit ihågkomna som underverk.
Med sin osvikliga…
The Fast Guide to Architectural Form, while staying on theoretical ground, is a very practical guide to the basic forms and shapes in architectural planning and design. The book is foremost a visual guide. The author presents sixty different architectural basic forms with both a schematic illustration and images of the…
Byggnadsanknuten offentlig konst utgör ett tydligt uttryck för det svenska välfärdssamhällets ambitioner att konsten skulle komma fler till del. Denna konst, som exempelvis kan utgöras av en takmålning, en fris på en vägg eller en skulptur i en park, har under de senaste åren i högre grad kommit att betraktas som en…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Konst Konst: allmänt Litteraturvetenskap och litteraturkritik
August Brunius (1879–1926) var den första professionella svenska kritikern. Tiden mellan 1902 och 1926 då Brunius var verksam är en oerhört händelserik tid i Sveriges kulturhistoria. Inom måleriet avlöstes de stora nationalromantikerna av expressionisterna; inom arkitekturen växer Det Nya Stockholm fram. Brunius är där…
Medeltidens kyrkor i Villan, Gärds och Göinge härader i Skåne och deras kvarvarande inventarier är en guide-och handbok för den som är arkeologiskt, kyrkohistoriskt och konsthistoriskt intresserad av det medeltida kyrkliga kulturarvet i området. Det är nog den första bok som behandlar dessa 79 medeltida kloster, kyrkor…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Konst Livsstil, hobby och fritid Lokalhistoria Lokalhistoria, familjehistoria och nostalgi
Brutalt eller lekfullt? Tomteverkstad eller postterminal? Monotont eller storslaget?
Tomteboda lämnar ingen oberörd. Och det oavsett om vi ser huset från järnvägen eller från de många trafiklederna som omger denna megastruktur bara några stenkast från Stockholms innerstad.
Sedan början av 80-talet, när huset byggdes,…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Konst Livsstil, hobby och fritid Lokalhistoria Lokalhistoria, familjehistoria och nostalgi
Brutal or playful? Santa’s workshop or mail terminal? Monotone or monumental?
Tomteboda leaves no one unaffected. And that regardless of whether we see the building from the train or one of the many highways that surround this colossal structure just a stone’s throw from downtown Stockholm.
Since the beginning of the…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: sakrala byggnader Byggnadskonstruktion och byggnadsmaterial Byggnadsvård, bevarande av byggnader och byggnadsmaterial Konst Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc. Väg- och vattenbyggnad, lantmäteri och byggnadsteknik
Religious heritage is in a state of transformation. Changing religious practices and secularization affect the established Christian congregations in many countries, as membership decreases and churches close. During recent years, new approaches to use and develop churches have been explored by the heritage field and…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Aspekter av religion Filosofi och religion Inredningsarkitektur Konst Religion och tro Religiösa institutioner och organisationer
Vi behöver ytan för att nå ner till djupet. Det är Karl-Johan Eklunds utgångspunkt när han beskriver hur vi med hjälp av planlösning, möblering och oväntade inredningsdetaljer kan skapa rum i kyrkan där ungdomar känner sig välkomnade och hemma. En sådan miljö uppmuntrar till möten som går på djupet.
I den här boken får…
Introducing Britain’s finest examples of brutalist architecture.
Brutalist architecture is more popular now than it has ever been. Imposing and dramatic, with monolithic concrete exteriors, it forms an enduring part of our post-war urban landscape. This beautifully photographed book is an authoritative survey of…
This edition, the fourth in a series of monographs that chart the architectural and speculative output of the Danish office CEBRA, sees the firm expand internationally to Toronto, Monterrey, Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere across the globe.
Through a chronological presentation of projects from 2013 2020, a pattern emerges:…
This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn’t have to know the name before looking it up. Clear line drawings and extensive…
Opposition och optimism. 1960-talet har beskrivits som Rebellernas era. Plast, neon, betong – tre visuella och taktilt utmanande material som på olika sätt har blivit symboler för en tidsepok. Med receptet former och färger kunde nya grepp etableras. Naivt? – men inte utan möjligheter.