Architecture - Buildings - Residential

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,...