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The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options (Chelsea Green Guides for Homeowners)
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Shelter, like many other elements of human existence, comes at an extraordinary cost to our planet and its inhabitants. In the U.S. alone, construction of 1.2 million new homes a year results in a massive drain on Earth’s natural […]
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery
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The green building movement has come a long way in a short time. Responding to this exponential growth, with its attendant technological as well as aesthetic developments, Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Deliver, Second Edition guides construction and design […]
Bungalow Style: Creating Classic Interiors in Your Arts and Crafts Home
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The Houston Chronicle January 29, 2005, Saturday SECTION: STAR; Pg. 8
Her book offers inspiration for renovators as well as new-home builders who want to capture the period’s essence.
Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska) February 3, 2005
SECTION: LIVING; Pg. 02E;
This colorful book deals with […]
At Home by the Sea: Houses Designed for Living at the Water’s Edge
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Acclaimed architectural photographer Brian Vanden Brink joins forces with Custom Home magazine editor Bruce Snider to take readers into 21 stunning seaside homes from Canada’s Bay of Fundy to St. Barthelemy. While Snider writes about homes that range from traditional […]
Italian Villas and Their Gardens: The Original 1904 Edition
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Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and […]
Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
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Building on the enormous success of the original Shelter, Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in Home Work are a Japanese-style stilt […]
Insulate and Weatherize: Expert Advice from Start to Finish (Build Like A Pro)
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From Library Journal
Taunton has created its new “Build Like a Pro” series to help serious do-it-yourselfers perform projects of greater complexity than are usually covered in books for amateurs. An engineer who trains builders in energy-efficient construction, Harley offers a […]
Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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“…professionally informed, competitively astute, and perversely brilliant…”
– The Yale Review
“…a brilliant document of the times…a work which uses history knowledgeably, skillfully, and creatively: a rarity.”
– Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
“…these studies are brilliant…the kind of art history and […]
The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-By-Step Method for Managing Home Construction
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From Library Journal
A workbook in the fullest sense, this goes well beyond the crash courses in home building and words of encouragement of similar books. The first 10 chapters take a practical management approach to such things as financing, site selection, working with subcontractors, […]
Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design
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From Publishers Weekly
Coauthors (along with several other writers) of the landmark design guide A Pattern Language, Jacobson and Silverstein join with their architectural partner, Winslow, to further simplify building design by distilling the principles they previously set forth as ten […]
