Houses, Apartments, Flats, etc

Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary architects with a minimalistic aesthetic and love of natural materials like g...

Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art worlds most intriguing destinations. ...

A must-have primer for homeowners and professionals, this impressive book presents the first comprehensive survey of its kind on how to achieve tru...

Martin Holladay has been making weekly postings to his 'Musings of an Energy Nerd' blog on Green Building Advisor since January 2009. Along the way...

A timely reappraisal of the importance of Howard Van Doren Shaw, a country house architect better known in his day than Frank Lloyd Wright but now ...

Throughout their twenty-five-year commitment to modern design, Barnes Coy Architects have specialized in one-of-a-kind dream houses designed for th...

In 1959 journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After mus...

Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, the wife-and-husband team behind the Los Angeles-based AD100 design firm Atelier AM, are standard-bearers for the...

Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innova...

Sigfried Giedions small but vocal manifesto Befreites Wohnen (1929) is an early manifestation of modernist housing ideology and as such is key to t...

Surmount and Dilute (3) presents a collection of architectural design solutions for sustainable urban development; focusing primarily on creating n...

This title includes a foreword by H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages,...

In this sumptuous portrait of the house known as 'the English Versailles', the present Duke sets the scene with a history of his ancestors, the Mon...

Who has never dreamt of living in the tropics? Lying in the sun, enjoying the peaceful atmosphere, sitting under the cool shade of abundant vegetat...

I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky...

Fresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challe...

New UPDATED EDITION 2014 The unique Black and White house in Singapore is the most distinctive and imposing of the island's colonial architectural ...

'A charming account of a daughter, a house and a fastidious dad' Sunday TimesShelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on ...

This survey of over twenty examples of Indias finest contemporary residential architecture gives exclusive, and often unprecedented, insight into p...

California Romantica features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by ...

House design in Britain and Ireland is guided by climate, landscape and local resources just as much as the centuries-old traditions that have inf...

The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban ...

Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energ...

Home is an idea, Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst. In T...

The rising cost of fuel and the growing commit­ment to protect the environment have sparked exciting innovations in prefab home construction. Showc...

This is the story of American modernism that has not been told in full before. Midcentury Modern Houses takes on the unparalled concentration of re...

How do architects treat the drama of water and nature? Do they defer to it with a simple dwelling that grows out of the land, or make a statement w...

Everyone dreams of a house by the sea, and this book presents the best examples of homes for escaping to the serenity of the seaside. Beautifully p...

There are some 22.4 million homes in England, housing 52 million people. They range from the smallest studio flat to the largest palace, and vary i...

Georgia OKeeffe spent almost 40 years of her life in the American Southwest. Her two houses in New Mexico; at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu and the lands...

Birgit Lyngbye Pedersen was looking for the right sofa for a house from the fifties and discovered Finn Juhl (19121989), whose furniture is experie...

A landmark volume to commemorate what is arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With stunning photography commis...

Life/Style is in the tradition of Jane Cumberbatch's classic book Pure Style. Designer Tricia Foley is also a popular devotee of pared-down, quiet ...

Critic and historian Mercedes Daguerre explores Latin America's evolving modernist tradition through the one-family houses of the region's leading ...