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Curves & Crevices, Romancing Chicago
TeamBees 2009; US$ 28.00An elegant coffee-table book, this collection of exquisite artistic illustrations of Chicago’s eminent architecture includes hand-sketched ink line drawings and digitally colored renderings presented in amazing quality and detail. Not only a refined gift or must-have, high-value souvenir from Chicago, this book is also a quality reference book... more...
Tudoresque
Reaktion Books 2012; US$ 45.00With its distinctive gables and arches, Tudor-style architecture is recognized around the world as a symbol of British culture; it represents the idea of home to British citizens in the United Kingdom and abroad. Some love it, others hate it, but the Tudoresque is still being built—to give a house an old-fashioned air or to create a sense... more...
Yin Yu Tang
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 34.95In the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) a Chinese merchant named Huang built a house for his family in a small, remote village in the southeastern region of Huizhou in China's Anhui Province. He named the house Yin Yu Tang. For seven generations, members of the Huang family ate, slept, laughed, cried, married, and gave birth in the house. By the mid-1990s,... more...
Architektur in Linz 1900-2011
Springer 2011; US$ 31.99F r den Architekturf hrer im Taschenformat wurden s mtliche Bauten neu fotografiert. Der derzeit einzige F hrer f r die Stadt Linz enth lt einen ausfaltbaren und herausnehmbaren Stadtplan, in den die Objekte eingezeichnet sind. more...
Row Houses
Springer 2007; US$ 39.95To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. A deeper understanding of the underlying types is indispensable for the success of the individual design, as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied in a wide variety of situations.... more...
Stadthäuser
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 46.00Der dritte Band der Wohnbautypologien behandelt die Typen des Stadthauses. Einer Betrachtung des Stadthauses als wesentliche Komponente des Stadtzentrums folgt die nach stadträumlichen Aufgabenstellungen ? unter anderem Zeile, Doppelzeile, Blockrand und Lücke ? gegliederte Darstellung der Typen. more...
The Chesapeake House
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 60.00For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and early national periods and thereby greatly enriched... more...
The Power of Vastu Living
Pocket Books 2010; US$ 24.99The Power of Vastu Living introduces a wonderfully accessible, room-by-room approach for organizing and decorating homes, apartments, and work spaces according to the timeless healing principles of vastu -- the sister science of yoga and ayurveda. Kathleen Cox's breakthrough system, Vastu Living, delivers all the practical tools you need to incorporate... more...









