Glancey, Jonathan
Summary: Architecture tells the story of the world's most incredible buildings, from the ancient world to the present day. Take a closer look at the beautiful details, principal elements, and decorative features of every architectural style, from China's Temple ofHeaven and the Great Mosque of Damascus, to the Guggenheim museum and the London Olympic Velodrome. Architecture offers a truly worldwide look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 GLABachmann, Stefan
Summary: "A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world's most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.2 BACJacobson, Max
Summary: "The key to creating a house that is memorable, satisfying, and enduring is to apply a group of design concepts - or patterns - that focus on the experience of being in a home. In this groundbreaking work, internationally respected architects Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow present the ten essential patterns that shape and define a well-crafted home. Patterns explore the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Sater, Dan F.
Contents: Necessity meets function -- Go with the flow: space planning -- High definition: interior detailing -- Out of sight -- Technology : home to stay -- Hidden value: quality for the long term.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Design 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Decorative Concrete Institute] 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.5 HARMitchell, C. Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1998
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Contents: Design intent -- Design process -- Design stratgies -- Design specifics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 DEAFriedman, Bernard
Summary: "Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst." In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture about a constellation of ideas relating to housing and home. The interviewees include Pritzker Prize winners Thom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 FRILee, Leslie
Summary: Sacred Space celebrates Pine Hollow, an expansive retreat inspired by the Lake Michigan shoreline. Leslie Lee, who founded the Pine Hollow Institute “to heal people and planet Earth,” pairs her own musings with architectural photographs in this splendidly designed coffee table book. She presents the estate as an exemplar of craftsmanship, and as a regional gift to nourish generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leslie Lee Publisher
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Bush, Sophie
Summary: "As space for land development in cities shrinks and city dwellers tire of cookie-cutter apartment towers, a love for historical buildings has returned. The initial interest in 'lofts' began in SoHo, New York, in the 1970s, and the love of warehouse buildings--often in attractive waterside locations--has since become a global phenomenon. Drawing on her personal experience living in a Grade II...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 BUSRiera Ojeda, Oscar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.22 RIEEck, Jeremiah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.37 ECKBrookes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 BrookesKerr, Jeffrey
Summary: "Jeffrey Kerr is a Realtor with RE/MAX Unique Inc., Brokerage. He has over 21 years of experience in the exciting and very dynamic Toronto real estate market. He shares his knowledge and extensive experience helping clients buy and sell barrier free, accessible houses and condominiums." - back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home KerrCosta Duran, Sergi
Summary: "Green Homes presents the latest innovations in sustainable architecture and design. Filled cover to cover with full-color photographs, architectural plans, and detailed drawings, this book features more than 20 projects, which explore various aspects of green design, from its ecological and economical benefits, to factors considered when choosing materials: How much energy went into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
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Summary: Anyone seeking to understand the basic principles underlying architectural design will find this classic source book an invaluable addition to the bookshelf. Haneman's 1,800 captioned, clear line drawings on 70 large-size plates comprise an inexhaustible storehouse of suggestion and inspiration for architects, designs, preservationists and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721 HANVranckx, Bridget
Summary: A handsome and practical source of inspiration for designing, building or remodelling a home. 202 Outstanding House Ideas is packed with 600 pages of ideas for the dream house. For practising professionals and homeowners this is a reference to successful designs chock full of ideas, analyses and successful applications from around the world. More than 750 outstanding interior and exterior...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662 VRASummary: So long McMansions and rambling square footage small homes are in! Easier to maintain and more affordable in hard economic times, small houses are gaining popularity in the housing market after nearly 60 years of trending up in size. Small Houses capitalizes on this shift with an all new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine. The featured writers, well respected authors in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662 TAUSummary: "In this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional and modern, urban and rural, by the water and in the mountains. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their square footage, and all are as big as they need to be to fit the lifestyles and aspirations of the people who live in them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press, Inc. 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Bachmann, Wolfgang
Summary: From the modern, flat-roofed concrete home to an energy-independent cob-walled house in the countryside, this guide shows seventy single-family homes that showcase the best of contemporary design. Each home is identified in terms of eight design considerations, including challenging lots, homes in the country, houses with a view, small spaces, unusual shapes, additions and remodels, zoning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Publishing Ltd 2015