Architecture - Buildings - Residential

The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire This updated guide addresses half a century of change and development since the previous edition, including a wealth of ambitious new buildings for the University and its colleges. Familiar buildings such...

The first comprehensive monograph focused on the most spectacular residential projects built and designed by Antonio Farré, one of Mexico's most distinguished contemporary architects. This publication showcases a curated and handpicked selection of the most outstanding houses in Mexico. The projects designed by Antonio...

Housing has changed in Sub-Saharan Africa since the Europeans arrived. Africans no longer live in traditional homes. This historical transition from "hut to house," from traditional to Western style, reflects slavery, colonialism and other social influences. This book focuses on Cameroon, known as "Africa...

Rocks, wind, sea, and sky frame a house on the Sardinian coast, and the house frames a family's life and art, suspended in memory. How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a practice of living? Architect Sebastiano Brandolini invites readers on...

A House Needs to Breathe...Or Does It? lays out the basic science of residential buildings. When it comes to how houses perform, professionals and homeowners alike believe many things that just aren't true. This book explodes the myths, misinformation, and plain old nonsense that...

Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoik?, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might...

Surfing is a way of life, one that defines not only where we live, but how we live. Surf Shacks Volume 2 picks up where the first volume left off, exploring homes of surfers, which range from improvised cabins by the beach to penthouse...

- A photographic celebration of 68 of London's most iconic and innovative council buildingsFrom Brutalist blocks to Modernist towers, this book is a visual celebration of 68 of London's most iconic council estates, reminding us of the pride, thought and innovation that went into...

- The world's most extraordinary garden offices from both top architects and those who built their ownRemote working is here to stay. More people than ever before are finding it's not just possible to work from home but much more productive, affordable and -...

A compelling account of the luxury and splendor of Newport's nineteenth-century summer "cottages." In his latest contribution to America's architectural record, Michael C. Kathrens gives house enthusiasts a superbly visual and informative book on Newport's early resort architecture.The nineteenth century was an incredibly vibrant...

The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints...

This book explores the historical background of Yangzhou gardens and traditional houses in detail, through architectural surveys that offer targeted research and analysis of garden and residential projects. Text in English and Chinese.Author: Chen CongzhouISBN-10: 7560881688ISBN-13: 9787560881683Publisher: Tongji University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2023Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Abundant archival images and graphics support an analysis of traditional residential design in the Chinese city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province. Text in English and Chinese.Author: Chen CongzhouISBN-10: 756088167XISBN-13: 9787560881676Publisher: Tongji University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2023Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 10.20h x 7.50w x 0.70d

- Swiss architect Laurent de Wurstemberger and his company turn excavated material from construction sites into compacted clay blocks and completed a number of small and sophisticated projects- Fully illustrated with 43 images and 25 plansIn 2006, Laurent de Wurstemberger founded the Atelier ar-ter...

Since 1995, the office's co-founder Julian Lewis and his team have produced numerous buildings, urban-planning master plans and landscape-architectural projects. They are especially interested in spaces where people work and live. Among their many major housing developments, schools and administrative buildings, the Frampton Park...

New Second Edition updated in line with June 2022 Building Regulation updates.Understanding Loft Conversions is a simple guide to carrying out a loft conversion. The book explains the main considerations required to carry out a loft conversion, and explores numerous construction methods for achieving...

Featuring beautiful photographs, John Ike: 9 Houses/9 Stories explores the creativity and the craft of nine stunningly singular projects by the renowned architect. A signature shingled house in a New York suburb, a renovated mid-century modern house in San Diego, a glass-and-brick house near...

A glorious, intimate homage to the magical country of Greece, from bestselling photographer and writer Miguel Flores-Vianna. A land immortalized by poets for its otherworldly beauty, Greece is the birthplace of iconic monuments that are known the world over. Yet, at the same time,...

This issue of DASH teases out the relationship between home and work in the age of the service economy. Looking globally and historically at the transformation, DASH explores proposals put forth to provide home/work environments for a varied group of people.Author: Dick Van Gameren,...