Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects

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"The contour line is the only precise and accurate means for representing the free and natural formation of terrain in the plan; so learn to use this instrument!" Professor Hans Loidl, Landscape Architect and Teacher The two design elements of landscape architecture are plants and terrain. While the subject of vegetation is well documented by numerous publications, there is a lack of technical literature in the field of grading. This volume fills that gap: History,... More >>

Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects

Richard Diebenkorn

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Richard Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The luminous abstractions of his later career and the innovative figurative works of his middle years firmly established him as a master in the high tradition of modernism.

This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the artist presents a rich selection of the artist's oeuvre. Until the mid-195... More >>

Richard Diebenkorn

Building Your Own Greenhouse

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Building a greenhouse can be easy and inexpensive with this comprehensive handbook. Practical instructions guide you through every step of the process: Selecting a site; Laying a foundation; Framing; Glazing; Ventilating; Insulating; Plumbing; Wiring. Eleven specific examples from simple cold frames to large free standing and attached to the house structures are featured.... More >>

Building Your Own Greenhouse

Savannah Squares A Keepsake Tour of Gardens, Architecture, and Monuments

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Discover the wonderful gardens, charismatic and quaint city squares, and unique architecture of Savannah, Georgia, through this enchanting new book. Over 150 beautiful color photographs showcase the famous residential squares of Savannah, as well as many of its monuments, fountains, and parks. The citys rich history is traced in the entertaining text. Explore these charming spaces, each a geographic landmark in this beloved small Southern city.... More >>

Savannah Squares A Keepsake Tour of Gardens, Architecture, and Monuments

Target Field: The New Home of the Minnesota Twins

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In 2010, major league baseball in Minnesota heads outdoors for the first time in nearly two decades—and at one of the finest baseball facilities anywhere. Target Field explores the Minnesota Twins’ long journey to getting a new ballpark and celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of its design and construction. With first-hand insight from the designers, engineers, workers, and team executives who made it all happen, the book gives an insider’s tour of the... More >>

Target Field: The New Home of the Minnesota Twins

NCIDQ Section 3 Practice Exam for the Interior Design Practicum

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The best way to prepare for Section 3 of the NCIDQ exam is by creating solutions for design exercises—the more solutions, the better. NCIDQ Section 3 Practice Exam for the Interior Design Practicum contains seven design exercises that cover all Section 3 content areas. The practice exam includes descriptions and building code requirements for all design exercises to simulate the actual exam's format and level of difficulty and enable you to assess your exam readin... More >>

NCIDQ Section 3 Practice Exam for the Interior Design Practicum

Michael S. Smith: Elements of Style

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Acclaimed designer Michael Smith has earned a reputation as the thinking celebrity's decorator, with a client list that includes Cindy Crawford, Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Pairing lush interiors with dynamic insider advice, Michael Smith's Elements of Style beautifully captures the essential building blocks of good interior design. Smith covers in depth the most common decorating decisions everyone faces: working with colo... More >>

Michael S. Smith: Elements of Style

500 Bungalows

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Popularity meets affordability as America's favorite house style (according to a 2005 survey on About/Architecture.com) comes at a price point that every bungalow fan can afford. There is perennial interest in all things bungalow related. Every year there are numerous books, magazines and floor plans published that are all geared to the bungalow enthusiast. Taunton Press has published several bungalow-related books to great success including Bungalow Style and Updat... More >>

500 Bungalows

Seven Discourses on Art

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Art / Criticism;... More >>

Seven Discourses on Art

Decorating with Architectural Details

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Decorating with Architectural Details offers the latest inspirational ideas for the most popular design trend in today's market. Incorporating classic design elements such as mantels, window seats, shelving, and more, homeowners learn how to turn a humdrum room into a distinctive living space. Readers can create a custom look for any room using the numerous style concepts. Hundreds of lavish photographs by renowned photographer Jessie Walker capture the in... More >>

Decorating with Architectural Details

Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities

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Essential information for the design of healthcare facilities

Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the design process and successfully complete a healthcare project, large or small, on time and within budget. Leading architects from across the United States share their firsthand knowledge in order to guide you through all aspects of healthcare faci... More >>

Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities

When Not to Build: An Architect's Unconventional Wisdom for the Growing Church

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Wise insight on building a church, growing a church, and keeping costs low. For pastors, leaders, and building committees.... More >>

When Not to Build: An Architect's Unconventional Wisdom for the Growing Church

Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time

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Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been [his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of those years w... More >>

Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time

Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio

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To an outsider, the world of ham radio is one of basement transmitters, clunky microphones, Morse code, and crackly, possibly clandestine, worldwide communications, a world both mysterious and geeky. But the real story is a lot more interesting: indeed, there are more than two million operators worldwide, including people like Walter Cronkite and Priscilla Presley. Gandhi had a ham radio, as do Marlon Brando and Juan Carlos, king of Spain.
Hello World takes us o... More >>

Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio

Understanding Boat Design

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For new boating enthusiasts--even if they've been at it awhile--there are scores of burning questions. If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a full keel, while others won't have anything but a fin keel? Why does one powerboat have more flare in its topsides than another? And what is flare? Why do some hull shapes lo... More >>

Understanding Boat Design

Cottages by the Sea: The Handmade Homes of Carmel, America's First Artist Community

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Carmel, California, has always been a community of artists, writers, and freethinkers. During the early part of its rich history, the area was home to Robinson Jeffers, Mary Austin, Ansel Adams, Charles Greene, Jack London, George Sterling, Upton Sinclair, and Henry Miller, among other great artists of the twentieth century. During the late 1980s, actor Clint Eastwood, a longtime resident, served as mayor.

While much about Carmel has changed since the days wh... More >>

Cottages by the Sea: The Handmade Homes of Carmel, America's First Artist Community

New York: 15 Walking Tours, An Architectural Guide to the Metropolis

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The devastating events of 9/11 have brought a renewed interest in the rich architectural history of New York City. This highly acclaimed well-illustrated "carry-along" walking tour provides the updated information that tourists, students, architects, and historians need to fully appreciate the architectural aspects that have made NYC one of the most vital cities in the world. This new third edition features:
* 15 walking tours of NYC's most im... More >>

New York: 15 Walking Tours, An Architectural Guide to the Metropolis

Construction Management Fundamentals

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Construction Management Fundamentals is intended as an introduction to both technical and business sides of construction, and is intended for use in an undergraduate Civil Engineering curriculum or for graduate courses in Construction Management. The text covers fundamentals of construction in a logical, simple, and concise format, and many examples reinforce construction and management concepts through applications, photographs, and illustrations derived from actua... More >>

Construction Management Fundamentals

Building Systems for Interior Designers

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Building Systems for interior designersSecond EditionCorky Binggeli, asidThe updated guide to technical building systems for interior designersAs integral members of the building design team, interior designers share an increasingly complex and crucial role. Now revised in its second edition, Building Systems for Interior Designers remains the one go-to resource that addresses the special concerns of the interior designer within the broader context of the rest of th... More >>

Building Systems for Interior Designers

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

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For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, wh... More >>

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

Construction Contracting, 6th Edition

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This completely updated version contains a greater depth and breadth of subject matter coverage. Devotes more attention to recent developments in such areas of construction contracting as estimating, bidding, insurance, contracts, business techniques, labor law and labor relations. Features samples of important AIA, CSI, AGC and AAA documents including reference sources and cost information.... More >>

Construction Contracting, 6th Edition

Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden

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Chanticleer, a forty-eight-acre garden on Philadelphia's historic Main Line, is many things simultaneously: a lush display of verdant intensity and variety, an irreverent and informal setting for inventive plant combinations, a homage to the native trees and horticultural heritage of the mid-Atlantic, a testament to one man's devotion to his family's estate and legacy, and a good spot for a stroll and picnic amid the blooms. In Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden, Adrian... More >>

Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden

Searching for True: Cutler Anderson Architects

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The work of James Cutler and Bruce Anderson of Cutler Anderson Architects reveals a unique approach to sustainable architecture: encouraging environmental stewardship through design that heightens the experience of the natural world. Each project begins with a careful investigation of site and material and culminates in a well-crafted building that fits seamlessly into the landscape. This monograph examines Cutler Anderson’s practice as it expands beyond their wi... More >>

Searching for True: Cutler Anderson Architects

Van Day Truex: The Man Who Defined Twentieth-Century Taste and Style

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Van Day Truex is widely regarded as the father of twentieth-century American design. Under his leadership, Parsons School of Design became the foremost school for interior design and fashion in the United States and he influenced generations of students entering these fields. But his greatest legacy—beautifully chronicled in Van Day Truex—is his long reign as design director at Tiffany & Co., which he transformed into a model for unprecedented style ... More >>

Van Day Truex: The Man Who Defined Twentieth-Century Taste and Style

Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb

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Treehouses lift the spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties and responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing and beautiful photographs, Treehouses paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. It provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. It shows how to... More >>

Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb

Earth Ponds Sourcebook: The Pond Owner's Manual and Resource Guide, Second Edition

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The author of the classic, best-selling book on ponds presents new tips, techniques, and hundreds of resources in this updated, expanded guide.Earth Ponds Sourcebook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference book for pond-related books and periodicals; aquaculture manufacturers and suppliers; advocacy groups and organizations; water gardening suppliers, botanical gardeners, and government organizations. Since the book's first publicatio... More >>

Earth Ponds Sourcebook: The Pond Owner's Manual and Resource Guide, Second Edition

Southern Rooms II: The Timeless Beauty of the American South

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The South has a palpable charm and a lively sense of identity. A mix of innovative trends and an enduring respect for tradition combined with a sense of personal style characterize the imaginative and lush interiors featured in this new volume. Though defined by geography, interior design in the South not only draws on diverse international influences, but in turn, re-imagines the boundaries and creates design trends that are echoed all over the United States and th... More >>

Southern Rooms II: The Timeless Beauty of the American South

Children's Spaces

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In "Children's Spaces from Zero to Ten", interiors writer stylist and mother of two Judith Wilson shows how homes can be adapted for children without surrendering order and good taste, while also providing children with their own spaces to explore and enjoy. Whether you're adapting a sophisticated, child-free zone for the arrival of a new baby or starting from scratch because your small children have outgrown your current home, some serious thinking is required. C... More >>

Children's Spaces

Thomas Jefferson: Architect: The Interactive Portfolio

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Though Thomas Jefferson is thought of first and foremost as one of America’s founding fathers, his contributions in the realm of architecture, design, and innovation were no less revolutionary. The third president created an American ideal in architecture that can be seen in numerous structures that define the landscape of his resident state of Virginia, and comprise what has come to be regarded as classic American colonial design. Combining beautiful images, info... More >>

Thomas Jefferson: Architect: The Interactive Portfolio

How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles

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This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building’s style, history, and evolution. Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also the story of who designed it, who it was built for, and why. Organized by architectural element (roofs, doors, windows, columns, domes, towers, arches, etc.), the book is roughly chronological within each section, examining the elements across history, through diff... More >>

How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles

Installing and Hanging Doors

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Installing and Hanging Doors gives carpenters and do-it-yourselfers of all levels all the information they need to get a perfect fit every time. This book covers how to select the best doors, and how to choose hardware and jambs for any installation--from a grand front entrance to simple bi-fold closet doors. It also provides professional techniques for installing all kinds of doors, including simple hinged doors to French doors, arched doors and double-acting doors... More >>

Installing and Hanging Doors

Pet Architecture Guide Book Vol 2

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Pet architecture is a term for the buildings that have been squeezed into left over urban spaces. Curious shapes and inventive solutions for drainage, windows and air conditioning abound. Most of all, it is the extraordinary miniature size of these shacks, store rooms, sushi bars and bike shops which makes this project so fresh. Lovingly researched by a team of very young Japanese architects, each ‘pet’ includes a humorous description, full page photograph, a ma... More >>

Pet Architecture Guide Book Vol 2

The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York

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From Matteo Pericoli, the celebrated author of Manhattan Unfurled, comes a unique collection of illustrated cityscapes. In these intimate drawings of window views, Pericoli captures the essence of the city by showing us what New Yorkers see when they look out their windows. The City Out My Window shows us a series of private New Yorks, as seen by Tom Wolfe, Tony Kushner, Nora Ephron, Stephen Colbert, Richard Meier, Oliver Sacks, Mario Batali, David Byrne, and other ... More >>

The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York

The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present

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Examines the details of architectural styles from 1485 to 1996, and provides a directory of suppliers and biographical data on select architects and designers.... More >>

The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present

Portfolio Design, Third Edition

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The “bible” of portfolio design and production is now in its third edition, revised and expanded to include essential information on the digital and multimedia direction of portfolios today.Whether you work in architecture, urban planning, landscape or interior design, a finely tailored portfolio is the most important element to include in your application for graduate school, a design grant or competition, or to bring to a job interview. ... More >>

Portfolio Design, Third Edition

Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture

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Exploring America's material culture, Common Places reveals the history, culture, and social and class relationships that are the backdrop of the everyday structures and environments of ordinary people. Examining America's houses and cityscapes, its rural outbuildings and landscapes from perspectives including cultural geography, decorative arts, architectural history, and folklore, these articles reflect the variety and vibrancy of the growing field of vernacular a... More >>

Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture

Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Inventor 2011

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Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Inventor 2011 contains a series of fifteen tutorial style lessons designed to introduce Autodesk Inventor, solid modeling, and parametric modeling. It uses a hands-on, exercise-intensive approach to all the import parametric modeling techniques and concepts. The lessons guide the user from constructing basic shapes to building intelligent mechanical designs, creating multi-view drawings and assembly models. Other featured topics inc... More >>

Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Inventor 2011

Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930

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GREAT HOUSES OF NEW YORK, 1880-1930 presents the stories of 43 most elegant houses built in New York. With over 300 archival photographs and floor plans and a decade of research, Michael Kathrens profiles New York houses known only for their magisterial presence on the city s most elegant boulevards, some of which still exist today. IN the book the lavish rooms are brought to life again polished black and white columns reflect in the marble floor of a grand entryw... More >>

Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930

Traditional Mexican Style Interiors

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There is charm and character in a Mexican home like no other architectural style. It is a classic, timeless style that remains in constant demand. All who enjoy looking at beautiful interiors and want new ideas for their own home will find this book irresistible. Over 280 color photographs of some of the most beautiful new, old, and remodeled Mexican-style homes are compiled here. Color is everywhere vibrantly painted walls offer a rainbow of hues, hand painted tala... More >>

Traditional Mexican Style Interiors

Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory

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The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also implies renewal, invention, and transformation. Recovering Landscape collects a number of essays that discuss why landscape is gaining increased attention today, and what new possibilities might emerge from this situation. Themes such as reclamation, urbanism, infrastructure, geometry, representation, and te... More >>

Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory

Terry John Woods' New Farmhouse Style

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Needham House, an 1820s farmhouse nestled in Vermont’s Green Mountains, is artist Terry John Woods’ beloved home—and it’s the canvas on which he works out his design ideas. Here, Woods has reinvented his family homestead while adding visual and tactile pleasure to every part of the house and garden. His eclectic, mix-and-match sensibility is unafraid to combine the finely polished with the charmingly weathered, the treasured heirloom with the just-discovered ... More >>

Terry John Woods' New Farmhouse Style

The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, Second Edition

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The Pantheon in Rome is one of the grand architectural statements of all ages. This richly illustrated book isolates the reasons for its extraordinary impact on Western architecture, discussing the Pantheon as a building in its time but also as a building for all time. Mr. MacDonald traces the history of the structure since its completion and examines its progeny--domed rotundas with temple-fronted porches built from the second century to the twentieth--relatin... More >>

The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, Second Edition

Textiles: A Handbook for Designers

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Practical information usually gained only through years of work experience and word of mouth is presented in this handbook for textile designers, students, interior designers and others who use textiles in their work. Textiles: A Handbook for Designers is a thorough study of the textile industry and the design processes and techniques used by professionals. With an overview of the textile industry and a thorough explanation of the designer's rol... More >>

Textiles: A Handbook for Designers

Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning

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Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning is a fascinating review of major topics and issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the leading source of news and information for the planning and development community on the web. The book brings together a wide range of editorial and discussion topics, coupled with commentary and overviews to create an enlightening record of the continuously evolving philosophy of bui... More >>

Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning

Foundations of Interior Design

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Foundations of Interior Design introduces readers to the creative, technical, and business
skills required by the career on which they are about to embark. The service
approach focuses on creating safe, comfortable, aesthetically pleasing spaces for residential
and contract clients and addresses the current concerns of the design process,
sustainability, universal design, and adaptive reuse. Works of professionally-trained
interior designers and stude... More >>

Foundations of Interior Design

Bathrooms: A Sunset Design Guide: Inspiration + Expert Advice

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All the latest ideas on design and materials, along with essential remodeling advice from professional bathroom designers, so that you can create a uniquely livable room.

Expert designers: Experienced design and building professionals guide you in getting the bathroom you want on a budget you can afford

Real-world solutions: Pro-designed baths show the best ways to pull all the elements together to create a cohesive, comfortable space
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Bathrooms: A Sunset Design Guide: Inspiration + Expert Advice

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 9th Edition

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The definitive guide to the design of environmental control systems.

For more than half a century, this book has been a fixture in architecture and construction firms the world over. It has also been the primary means by which generations of students have acquired the basic knowledge and skills needed to design environmental control systems. Twice awarded the AIA's Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing, Mechanical and E... More >>

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 9th Edition

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles

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Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all n... More >>

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles

By The Light of the Sea: Jean-Loup Daraux

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o     Like En passant par la demeure, By the Light of the Sea is a well-photographed book that captures the seductiveness and flair of French interior design and will inspire all types of decorators, from the armchair variety to the seasoned professional o     The designer himself gives insights into how the decoration of these homes was achieved This beautifully illustrated book, a companion volume to the best-selling En passant par la demeure (published ... More >>

By The Light of the Sea: Jean-Loup Daraux

Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction

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The house of your Dreams does not have to be expensive. The key is all in the planning. How much a house costs, how it looks, how comfortable it is, how energy-efficient it is - all these things occur on paper before you pick up even one tool. A little extra time in the planning process can save you tens of thousands of dollars in construction and maintenance. That is time well spent!Living Homes takes you through the planning process to design an energy and resourc... More >>

Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction