Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

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Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability. Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to wh... More >>

Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

House Beautiful 500 Sensational Ways to Create Your Ideal Home

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Creating the perfect home begins with a dream— and House Beautiful has 500 ways and one breathtaking big book to make it come true. An array of magnificent photographs showcases a rich assortment of serene retreats in a special landscape format, including easy-care looks, paradises for nature lovers, cutting-edge domains, and spaces that are cozy and comfortable. Smart suggestions parade across each and every page, all bound to spur the imagination to creative hei... More >>

House Beautiful 500 Sensational Ways to Create Your Ideal Home

Stairway Walks in San Francisco

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One of San Francisco's little-known treasures is its more than 350 stairways. The author has combined dozens of her favorite stairways into 27 guided neighborhood walks. Each stairway walk contains a step-by-step route description that includes notes on historical background, architecture, and other points of interest. Accompanying every walk is an easy-to-follow map and a corresponding numbered outline, which includes information on taking public transportation to ... More >>

Stairway Walks in San Francisco

Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers

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An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Char... More >>

Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers

The Home Within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms

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Architect and designer Bobby McAlpine creates idyllic houses that wed historical precedent with gracious modern living. His distinguished firms, McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors, are renowned nationwide for their talent in designing residences that resonate with nostalgia, fantasy, and a sense of place. Their dwellings—from country and seaside retreats to homes in historic American neighborhoods—offer favorite period styles... More >>

The Home Within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms

2006 International Building Code - Softcover Version: Softcover Version

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SOFTCOVER VERSION: The 2006 International Building Code addresses the design and installation of building systems through requirements that emphasize performance. Fully compatible with all the International Codes, the 2006 edition provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage that establishes minimum regulations for building systems using prescriptive and performance-related provisions. Content is founded on broad-based principles that make possible the use of mater... More >>

2006 International Building Code - Softcover Version: Softcover Version

Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture

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The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto. The most influential of these are collected here in chronological order from 1903 to 1963. Taken together, they constitute a s... More >>

Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

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Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Chutreaux during the thirteenth century.Amazon.com Review
The Gothic cathedral is one of humanity's greatest masterpieces--an architectural feast that couldn't help but attract the attention of renowned author-illustrator David Macaulay. Once an architectural student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Macaulay glories in t... More >>

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real

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How can you make dreams come true? Or transform a fantasy into a colorful, exciting world that visitors can move through, touch, and enjoy? Such fabulous work is the daily business of Walt Disney’s Imagineers, a core group of creative and highly skilled professional wizards who combine imagination with engineering to create the reality of dreams that are the Disney theme parks. 
In this sequel to the bestselling Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dream... More >>

Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real

Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011

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Revit all-stars present a fast, focused introduction to Revit functions, tools, and conceptsHailed for its ease of use, power, and sophistication, Revit is the industry-leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software package. Introducing Revit Architecture provides a thorough overview of Revit's concepts, interface conventions, tools, and tasks. In-depth discussions, reinforced by comprehensive step-by-step exercises, detail how to model, document, prese... More >>

Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011

Ultimate Guide to House Framing

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Ultimate Guide to House Framing, 3rd Edition, leads homeowners through the steps of building a structure by means of platform framing, the most popular style of framing in use today. The book also covers the latest in eco-friendly materials as well as green framing techniques. Ultimate Guide to House Framing is the most up-to-date source for framing information. Beginning with background information, the book provides readers with everything they need to kn... More >>

Ultimate Guide to House Framing

Alexa Hampton: The Language of Interior Design

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At an early age, Alexa Hampton learned the language of good design, the vocabulary to speak it, and the elements that define it. As the daughter of interior design legend Mark Hampton, she traveled the world by her father’s side, touring the great architectural landmarks and discovering beauty, training her eye.

Now one of America’s most influential designers herself, Alexa Hampton provides a tour of stunning residences from her own portfolio.

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Alexa Hampton: The Language of Interior Design

2009 International Mechanical Code: Softcover Version

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For the most current mechanical codes that address the design and installation of the most current mechanical systems, use the 2009 International Mechanical Code. Designed to provide comprehensive regulations for mechanical systems and equipment, it includes coverage of HVAC, exhaust systems, chimneys and vents, ducts, appliances, boilers, water heaters, refrigerators, hydronic piping, and solar systems. This valuable reference uses prescriptive- and performance- re... More >>

2009 International Mechanical Code: Softcover Version

Sunset Western Landscaping Book

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The natural companion to Sunset's acclaimed Western Garden Book, this much-needed volume is organized by region, featuring descriptions of native and naturally adapted plants throughout. Beautifully rendered illustrations highlight entry gardens, innovative borders, and artistic structural accents. 350 color photos. 300 landscape plans.... More >>

Sunset Western Landscaping Book

Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture

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Google SketchUp for Site Design illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp: how it works and more importantly, what to do with it.Filled with tutorials from front to back, the book focuses on the start and completion of projects that include rich detail and expression. Each part and chapter of the book builds on the previous chapters and tutorial.You will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings and site elements: from modeling each of these exte... More >>

Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

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This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching's signature style.... More >>

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

New Decorating Book

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For nearly 50 years, home decorators have turned to Better Homes and Gardens New Decorating Book to transform their houses into warm, personal havens for their families. The tradition continues with this all-new edition. It's your personal guide to the styles, colors, textures, fabrics, wall and window treatments, flooring, lighting, and accessories that define today’s interior design. More than 900 photographs, 100 illustrations, and friendly, informative text of... More >>

New Decorating Book

The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live

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Now available in paperback, the expanded 10th anniversary edition of Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big House is ready to inspire a whole new generation of homeowners and builders. Though a decade has passed, her deceptively simple message remains as powerful as ever: when it comes to our homes, quality should always come before quantity. With comforting guidance and clear language, America's favorite home architect shows how to create a house that emphasizes comfort, b... More >>

The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live

Love in a Cold Climate

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This is the classic comedy of upper crust English manners and mores on the subject of love between the Wars. Set in the privileged world of the country house party and the London season, "Love in a Cold Climate" is a delicious comedy of English upper-class manners between the wars. With a gallery of unforgettable characters, and in her distinctively witty style, Nancy Mitford exposes the eccentricities and foibles of the aristocracy in their pursuit of amusement, go... More >>

Love in a Cold Climate

Architectural Graphics

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Francis D.K. Ching's architectural bestseller, thoroughly updatedSince 1975, Architectural Graphics has been a bestselling classic that has introduced countless students of architecture and design to the fundamentals of graphic communication. Featuring Francis D.K. Ching's signature graphic style, it illustrates how to use graphic tools and drafting conventions to translate architectural ideas into effective visual presentation. This Fifth Edition has been updated t... More >>

Architectural Graphics

A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams

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Michael Pollan’s unmatched ability to draw lines of connection between our everyday experiences— whether eating, gardening, or building—and the natural world has been the basis for the popular success of his many works of nonfiction, including the genre-defining bestsellers The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, readers can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of... More >>

A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams

Essential Elegance: The Interiors of Solis Betancourt

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For Jose Solís and Paul Sherrill, partners in Solís Betancourt, the goal for every interior is a balance between formal and informal, traditional and contemporary, while always keeping comfort and livability in mind. There is a striking simplicity to their arrangement of furniture and art: the look is subtle, never excessive, yet the designers are not afraid to bring in dramatic elements to surprise and enchant the eye. These choices contribute to a look that appe... More >>

Essential Elegance: The Interiors of Solis Betancourt

A Field Guide to American Houses

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For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture.

Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built o... More >>

A Field Guide to American Houses

Tile Idea Book

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Tile has been transformed in the popular imagination from a pedestrian material to a sought-after design element. Home centers, specialty tile shops, and Internet sources offer the average homeowner an amazing range of mass-produced, handmade, and custom tile types made of materials including ceramics, natural stone, metal, and glass. Organized by room, with chapters covering kitchens, bathrooms, living spaces, entries, and mudrooms, Tile Idea Book presents hundreds... More >>

Tile Idea Book

ARE Review Manual

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Updated to the 2007 AIA Documents and the 2009 International Building Code Successful exam preparation requires the best resources, and the ARE Review Manual gives you the power to pass all seven divisions of the ARE. This one book, updated to the 2007 AIA documents and the 2009 International Building Code, provides you with a complete and comprehensive review of the content areas covered on the ARE divisions. Additional chapters covering basic mathema... More >>

ARE Review Manual

Measuring, Marking & Layout: A Builder's Guide

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-- Provides simple techniques for accurate measuring using a number of basic toolsAmazon.com Review
The common and sensible dictum among carpenters--"Measure twice, cut once"--is only the beginning for Carroll, who manages to take some very complex information and distill it into readable and understandable form. There are chapters devoted to laying out foundations, frames, roofs, stairs, masonry units, and finishing materials, and many little-known t... More >>

Measuring, Marking & Layout: A Builder's Guide

Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins

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Lost Detroit tells the stories behind 12 of the city's most beautiful, all-but-forgotten landmarks and of the people behind them, from the day they opened to the day they closed. While these buildings might stand as ghosts of the past today, their stories live on within these pages. The team behind this project brings you the memories of those who caught trains out of the majestic Michigan Central Station, necked with girlfriends in the balcony of the palatial Michi... More >>

Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins

Timeless Elegance: The Houses of David Easton

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In this rare examination of the work of one of America’s preeminent interior designers and architects, David Easton, we are treated to a retrospec­tive of his storied career. The versatility of his talent is displayed in examples of his work that range from a 45-room Georgian-style house in Charlottesville, Virginia, to a Mediterranean stucco house in Mexico and a modern house in Aspen, Colorado. Black-and-white pencil draw­ings alongside museum-quality waterc... More >>

Timeless Elegance: The Houses of David Easton

Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results

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The most thorough and concise guide to hanging drywall available. This revised edition features new material, additional pages and color photographs. With more than 87,000 copies sold, Drywall is a mainstay of any comprehensive home-building library.... More >>

Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results

Modern Architecture: A Critical History

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"One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today."—Architectural Design This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new section that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years and examines the phenomenon of international celebrity architects who are increasingly active all... More >>

Modern Architecture: A Critical History

Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects

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One of the leading references on the design of a building's environmental controls has just gotten better. For years, Heating, Cooling, Lighting has supplied architects and students with the strategies needed for initial design decisions for building systems. The book looks at how to design the form of the building itself to take advantage of natural heating, cooling, and lighting and how to best utilize active mechanical equipment to satisfy the needs not provided ... More >>

Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects

Stonescaping Idea Book

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The right kind of stone and how you incorporate it in your landscape and garden can make all the difference. Stone, a broad term that includes pavers, fieldstones, bricks, rocks and boulders, and stone veneer, can be used to create a distinct yet practical component to any yard. And with the variety of natural and manufactured stone products widely available today, incorporating stone in the landscape is no longer out of reach.
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Stonescaping Idea Book

A Classical Journey: The Houses of Ken Tate

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Fine addition to the IMAGES' fabled New Classicists series Showcase of the extraordinary range of houses designed by the firm across the last 20 years One of the world's most respected architects in the New Classicist movement in the US Exquisite French, Georgian, Federal, Spanish, Greek revival and French colonial houses are masterfully photographed in sepia and full color Award-winning architect Ken Tate is widely recognized for his intuitive approach to tradit... More >>

A Classical Journey: The Houses of Ken Tate

Mary McDonald: Interiors: The Allure of Style

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In her first book, award-winning interior designer Mary McDonald inspires readers to combine old-fashioned elegance with the joy of fearless, exuberant decorating. Consistently ranked one of House Beautiful’s top 100 designers, L.A.-based Mary McDonald’s gorgeous, feminine interiors have graced the cover of every major design magazine. Dubbed the "decorating daredevil" by Domino magazine, McDonald began her career as a milliner and retains a sense of "couture ch... More >>

Mary McDonald: Interiors: The Allure of Style

Kelly Hoppen Interiors: Inspiration and Design Solutions for Stylish, Comfortable Interiors

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An indispensable source of inspiration and insightful advice for anyone undertaking home design or redecoration on any scale or budget. Kelly Hoppen is a world-renowned designer who has pioneered a simple yet opulent style that has won her numerous accolades and awards for her stunning interiors. While her designs are best known for symmetry, straight lines, and neutral color, she also pioneered softening strict minimalism with rounded, feminine forms, splashes of c... More >>

Kelly Hoppen Interiors: Inspiration and Design Solutions for Stylish, Comfortable Interiors

Working Alone

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-- Discusses all aspects of laying foundations, raising walls, and more for small or one-person crews... More >>

Working Alone

A World History of Architecture

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A magnificently illustrated guide to the global history of architecture—updated to include the non-western world and works from women The Second Edition of this historical architectural guide gives you a deeper knowledge and wider perspective of traditions in architecture throughout the world—from prehistoric through modern structures. Extensively and beautifully illustrated, the book includes photos, plans, scales for world-... More >>

A World History of Architecture

Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2009 International Building Code

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An easy-to-use, illustrated guide to the 2009 edition of the International Building CodeAs the U.S. building industry adapts the international standards, architects and other building professionals need a clear, practical guide to the International Building Code. Marrying the graphic skills of bestselling author Frank Ching with the code expertise of Steven Winkel, FAIA, this invaluable reference provides an easy-to-understand interpretation in both words and illust... More >>

Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2009 International Building Code

150 Best Eco House Ideas

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Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, "150 Best Eco House Ideas" features eco-friendly house designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients. Included here are the latest innovations in sustainable home design, including solar paneling, wind energy systems, environmentally-friendly heating and cooling s... More >>

150 Best Eco House Ideas

Litchfield Style: Classic Country Houses of Connecticut

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A presentation of quintessential country classic–style architecture and tasteful interiors—the epitome of picturesque New England. The county of Litchfield, Connecticut, is comprised of a pristine landscape of rolling hills, endless woodlands, green fields and streams, and early American houses. Annie Kelly presents the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century homes and their gardens—from quaint farmhouses and saltboxes to Colonial, Greek Revival, and Federal styles... More >>

Litchfield Style: Classic Country Houses of Connecticut

Frederic Chaubin: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

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Photographer Frdric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no school or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Their diversity announced ... More >>

Frederic Chaubin: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed