Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile

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Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ceilings over large spaces. No one was more skilled at this than the Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants who oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s and the 1950s. These versatile, strong, and fireproof vaults were built by Guastavino in more th... More >>

Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile

D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself

• ISBN13: 9781568985527
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Not satisfied with the new T-shirts on sale at the local mall? Maybe you'd like a wedding invitation that expresses your own vision, not your party planner's? How about some personalized stationery? An upgrade to your website? A business card? A poster for your political campaign? A CD package for your band? Sound good? Then get up off your couch and Design It Yourself! Avoid graphic identity theft: build your own. Ellen Lupton, bestselling author of Thinking with T... More >>

D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself

Earth-Sheltered House, Revised Edition: An Architect's Sketchbook

• ISBN13: 9781603581073
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The Earth-Sheltered House is a classic in the annals of sustainable building books, written by a legend in the field of environmentally responsible architecture. Malcolm Wells has a fundamentally different way of looking at the design and building process, and his iconoclastic perspective has never been more apparent.Wells’s work is revolutionary, but readers will find his message to be pure common sense. Earth sheltering offers superior comfort with minimal energ... More >>

Earth-Sheltered House, Revised Edition: An Architect's Sketchbook

Design of Concrete Structures

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The 13th edition of the classic text, Design of Concrete Structures, is completely revised using the newly released 2002 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Code. This new edition has the same dual objectives as the previous editions: first to establish a firm understanding of the behavior of structural concrete, then to develop proficiency in the methods used in current design practice. Design of Concrete Structures covers the behavior and design aspects of concr... More >>

Design of Concrete Structures

The New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork

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In this new, expanded edition of Jay Silber's ground-breaking first book, The New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork focuses on the aesthetic uses of architectural trimwork. There are plenty of books that tell the reader how to install trim around windows and doors, but few that also explain how architectural trim can enhance a room's aesthetic appeal. Silber shows readers even more ideas on how to choose and use a wide variety of moldings, trim, and design conc... More >>

The New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork

At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

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At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving. Full-color photographs.Amazon.com Review
For the bibliophile anxious to enhance the home library, A... More >>

At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way

• ISBN13: 9780930031855
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This is a comprehensive manual of design and building methods for owner-builders as well as professional builders and their clients. In addition to presenting specific building techniques, the book explains the design principles and planning processes that underlie all good building, so that readers can develop their own exceptional designs, independently.
The Real Goods Independent Builder develops subjects not covered thoroughly in other books, but critical t... More >>

Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way

Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space

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Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks. Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, co... More >>

Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space

Full-Color Decorative Butterfly Illustrations CD-ROM and Book

• ISBN13: 9780486999661
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This treasury of dazzling butterfly illustrations — accurately portrayed in a wide array of colors and sizes — offers illustrators, graphic artists, and craftspeople a glorious variety of eye-catching design options. The 388 finely rendered images are perfect for adding a graceful touch to poster art, fabrics, stationery, newsletters, catalogs, and many other projects. ... More >>

Full-Color Decorative Butterfly Illustrations CD-ROM and Book

Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components

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Constructing Landscape is a systematic introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants. For landscape architects and architects it is an indispensable guide to correct and professional execution planning as well as to preparing solid and well-thought-out requests for proposal.

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Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components

Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers, 2nd Edition

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Reliable theory and practical solutions for every color-related design problem
Prepare to change the way you look at color. In Understanding Color, Second Edition, Linda Holtzschue shows you how to forge an alliance between your emotional, intuitive response to color and the theories that explain it. More importantly, she shows you how to use color more comfortably, creatively, and effectively than ever before.
Mastering basic color concepts through st... More >>

Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers, 2nd Edition

New Natural Home: Designs for Sustainable Living

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Inspirational houses from around the world: how architects and home owners can achieve harmony between dwellings and nature.Our houses can be seen as living, breathing entities, extensions of ourselves and our families. This carefully considered publication provides the design inspiration to build and live in domestic spaces in a balanced, natural, sustainable way.

With the demands of all contemporary dwellings in mind—whether th... More >>

New Natural Home: Designs for Sustainable Living

The American House Styles of Architecture Coloring Book

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Crisp renderings of over 40 extant structures from Taos Pueblo to striking contemporaries. Spanish Colonial, Georgian, Stick, Gothic, many other styles. Rich and informative captions date, identify, and describe each dwelling. 43 black-and-white illustrations.
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The American House Styles of Architecture Coloring Book

The Japanese House: Architecture and Interiors

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The simple beauty of Japanese architecture and design has inspired many of the world's top architects and designers, such as Bruno Taut, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Terence Conran, to name just a few. The grace and elegance of the Japanese sensibility is reflected in both modern and traditional Japanese homes, from their fluid floor plans to their use of natural materials. In The Japanese House, renowned Japanese photographer Noboru Murata has captured this Eastern spir... More >>

The Japanese House: Architecture and Interiors

Building the Pauson House: The Letters of Frank Lloyd Wright and Rose Pauson

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Never before published drawings and letters by Frank Lloyd WrightOn April 11, 1943, in the desert hills of Phoenix, Arizona, Frank Lloyd Wright's Pauson House burned to the ground. The fire had erupted just one year after the building's completion. But the complete obliteration of this remarkable structure was avoided by way of an astounding archive of letters between Wright (American, 1867-1959) and his client, artist Rose Pauson.In Building the Pauson House... More >>

Building the Pauson House: The Letters of Frank Lloyd Wright and Rose Pauson

Engineering Analysis with SolidWorks Simulation 2010

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Engineering Analysis with SolidWorks Simulation 2010 goes beyond the standard software manual because its unique approach concurrently introduces you to the SolidWorks Simulation 2010 software and the fundamentals of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) through hands-on exercises. A number of projects are presented using commonly used parts to illustrate the analysis features of SolidWorks Simulation. Each chapter is designed to build on the skills, experiences and underst... More >>

Engineering Analysis with SolidWorks Simulation 2010

The Design Process

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Karl Aspelund is a seasoned explorer and guide through the seven stages of The Design Process. Beginning at Inspiration, readers travel through Identification, Conceptualization,
Exploration/Refinement, Definition/Modeling, and Communication on the way to Production. The tour is enhanced by the accompanying Perspectives of designers who travel parallel paths in the design of fashion, interiors, industrial and consumer products, and public art projects. End-of-cha... More >>

The Design Process

Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture

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A problem/solution manual, integrating general principles and laboratory exercises, that provides students with the hands-on experience needed to master the basics of modern computer system design Features more than 200 detailed problems, with step-by-step solutions; many detailed graphics and charts; chapter summaries with additional "rapid-review" questions; and expert sidebar tips Describes analytical methods for quantifying real-world design choices ... More >>

Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture

Code Check for California: An Illustrated Guide to Building a Safe House

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An indispensable guide for homeowners, do-it-yourselfers, and every building professional. San Francisco Chronicle. Specially created for California to address the unique differences in the new California Building Codes, Code Check for California is the latest addition to the indispensable Code Check series. Cross-referenced to the Uniform Plumbing Code, Uniform Mechanical Code, and National Electrical Code, this foolproof reference helps builders and homeowners get... More >>

Code Check for California: An Illustrated Guide to Building a Safe House

The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes: Personalize Your Craft with Organic Colors from Acorns, Blackberries, Coffee, and Other Everyday Ingredients

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Buttery yellow from garden weeds or gorgeous garnet-red dye from flowers — achieving stunning colors for your fabric, yarn, and other natural materials is almost as easy as boiling water, with ingredients as close as your spice cabinet and as plentiful as fallen leaves on an autumn day.
 
Through step-by-step instructions and color-saturated photographs, textile designer Sasha Duerr explains the basics of making and using natural plant dye, from gathering m... More >>

The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes: Personalize Your Craft with Organic Colors from Acorns, Blackberries, Coffee, and Other Everyday Ingredients

Decks 1-2-3

• easy to read, understandable directions plus photos

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73% of homeowners building a deck do most of the work themselves. * Getting started, understanding building codes, and figuring out location * How to design, build, accessorize, repair, and maintain decks * Expert tips on how to customize plans * 75 projects * More than 600 photographs * More than 30 illustrations * More than 150 tips... More >>

Decks 1-2-3

The Well-Dressed Home: Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal Style

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Create a personalized living space that reflects your fashion and style sensibilities with the help of interior designer Annette Tatum in The Well-Dressed Home. Founder of the popular and successful House and Little House lines of high-end apparel, accessories, bedding, and furniture, Tatum reveals how to draw inspiration from the fashion world, pop culture, and especially your own closet to create stunning, one-of-a-kind room designs.

Personality is key whe... More >>

The Well-Dressed Home: Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal Style

Quiet Living: Unique Country Interiors

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- Unique Country Interiors -Illustrates rural interior design from around Europe -Includes almost 300 colour photographs Quiet Living is a brand new interiors book by Piet Swimberghe and Jan Velinde, showcasing one of the most popular styles in Europe. It explores the current trend for a rural approach to interior design in Europe, featuring country-style interiors from city homes as well as sprawling country houses. Text in English, French and Dutch. Art historian... More >>

Quiet Living: Unique Country Interiors

Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers

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A revision of the classic reference covering all important principles and techniques needed by practicing civil engineers. The 5th Edition incorporates changes in design and construction practices, especially in design specifications for construction materials, buildings and bridges, safety and health concerns, and the most current codes changes including ACI, AISC, ASTM, NDS for wood structures, etc. The Handbook covers systems design, community and regional plan... More >>

Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers

Mosque

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An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Through the fictional story and Macaulay’s distinctive full-color illustrations, readers will learn not only how such monumental structures were built but also how they functioned in relation to the so... More >>

Mosque

The Architecture of Patterns

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Through a precise and expansive definition of what a pattern is, this book offers ways to understand and use patterns in contemporary design.From the structure of the universe to the print on your grandmother’s couch, patterns are found in a variety of concrete and conceptual phenomena. For architecture, something that so easily traffics between science and taste demands attention, which partially explains patterns’ recent revival across diverse... More >>

The Architecture of Patterns

Sprawl: A Compact History

• ISBN13: 9780226076911
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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, envir... More >>

Sprawl: A Compact History

The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces

• ISBN13: 9784770029812
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IN THE TRADITION OF JAPANESE TOUCH FOR YOUR GARDEN, THE PERFECT BOOK FOR CONTEMPOLATING A ZEN-STYLE GARDEN FOR HOME OR TOWNHOUSE, YARD OR BALCONY.

Japanese gardens are renowned for their serene and peaceful ambiance. The New Zen Garden presents the Japanese garden as it exists today, with all its traditional qualities joined to modern architecture and viewed from a modern perspective.

This book takes the concept introduced in the best-selling Japanese ... More >>

The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces