This abundantly illustrated overview of modern design across continents and cultures highlights key movements and design traditions. A cross-disciplinary book, it outlines the milestones ...
From eco-friendly sheetrock to sustainable paint finishes, the green building movement is gaining momentum. But with new products, manufacturers, and standards being introduced routinely, ...
Any architect, engineer, or preservation professional renovating a historic property must be familiar with the historic structure report (HSR)'a document that evaluates all aspects ...
The Vintage House is the first comprehensive survey of how to achieve truly compatible, stylistically resonant additions and renovations. The authors' expert perspective on ...
Here for the first time in three quarters of a century a series of comparative architectural details is reissued. Once appearing regularly in professional ...
For the past quarter-century, mainstream architecture has proceeded on the underlying belief that we have the resources to build whatever and as much as ...
Everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials, and citizen activists need to know about the critical urban role of public parks. Everything that ...
Often called the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted was responsible for the design of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York ...
An acclaimed acoustician presents a proven methodology for designing successful venues for concert performance in a variety of building types. Of all the problems ...
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the ...
An inspirational and practical book about the benefits of enhancing cities with well-planted gardens, parks, and streets. An internationally renowned public garden designer, with ...
The first close look at an innovative architect and inventor who held that traditional styles could be successfully adapted for modern times. In the ...
Sophie Crumb's slender body of published comics so far identifies her as an interesting--but still mostly promising--young cartoonist. Questions about this compilation of childhood ...
