How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home
"Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago's twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders."--Michelangelo Sabatino, coauthor of Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975
Across Corfu and the Ionian Archipelago, Claire and Dominic Skinner showcase the very finest of the private luxury villas and hotels they have built and designed for their high net worth clients over the last ten years. Many of the houses have never been seen before, revealing astonishing locations, interiors and breath-taking landscaped gardens.
The Production Homebuilder is designed to introduce and promote the homebuilding industry to construction college students and to prepare those graduates who choose to become homebuilders for a fast career start and an exciting and rewarding career journey. In Part One, students explore a variety of topics related to production homebuilding ......
Our relationship with our homes changed in 2020 when the pandemic known as Covid-19 led to enforced periods of self-isolation, called 'lockdown'. We got to know our living spaces intimately and learned the greatest risk of infection was indoors through the breath we shared in poorly ventilated spaces, where microbial atmospheres could work their ......
An inspiring, lavishly illustrated book about how artist Tom Gottsleben and his wife, Patty Livingston, spent years building and living in a 5-story spiral house made of stone.
Lake|Flato Architects of San Antonio, Texas, is nationally and internationally acclaimed for buildings that respond organically to the natural environment. The firm uses local materials and workmanship, as well as a deep knowledge of vernacular traditions, to design buildings that are tactile and modern, environmentally responsible and authentic, ......
A Plea for Improving Rural Domestic Building in Asia & Africa
Early nomadic shelters, including caves, animal skin tents, and igloos, were used for protection against wind, rain, snow, sunlight, and other forces of nature. These basic homes also provided defence against predators and were used to store a few important possessions. They were temporary, and proximity to a water source was of prime importance. ......
A Series of Twenty Etchings, Together with Notes from a Diary by Eliza Greatorex
Originally published in 1872, this work is based on the author's experiences in the town of Oberammergau, Germany, the site of the world-famous Passion Play. Greatorix, a famous illustrator of the period, recounts her three-month stay during which time she illustrated 20 of the town's famous homes. The book is placed into an historical context, ......
