Residential Buildings, Domestic Buildings

Founded in 1928 as a living diary by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the worlds most influential arch...

Founded in 1928 as a living diary by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the worlds most influential arch...

The Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalitie...

 I tore through the pages. A book Ill read over and over again CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie __________________________________________...

An illustrated celebration of architecture using shipping containers as modular building elements, resulting in affordable moveable and sustainable...

An illustrated selection of home office designs showing how architects and interior designers have created new spaces in private houses to accommod...

With energy costs continuing to rise ''zero energy homes'' are latest big green building trend. A Zero Energy Home (ZEH) - a home that produces as ...

In this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to encha...

Natural Stone Houses show current and modern architectural examples for the use of natural stone, earth, and concrete.

With his geometric structures perched upon the hillsides, beaches, and deserts of California, John Lautner (19111994) was behind some of the most s...

Pavilion Living looks at the architecture of three recently completed pavilions by Peter Zimmerman Architects on the gardens of a large private hou...

Much more than an excellent gazetteer; this detailed study of the countys castles, monuments and towers shows who was responsible for the defence o...

Recognising that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses ...

Building with prefab usually means spending less for a better quality home. And it also means building greener; all the houses featured are highly ...

Far and away the best narrative of western architecture in existence...it stands out as an intellectual triumph. - Sir John SummersonIn this highly...

The most ambitious project of Henry Avray Tipping, the influential architectural editor of Country Life, Mounton was a new country house and garden...

Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appe...

Marjorie Merriweather Post was an extraordinary person for her time, not only for being the head of a major US corporation but also for overseeing ...

75 unique designs for attractive, efficient, environmentally friendly homes. Now available in paperback, this collection of 75 plans for small home...

The East German engineer Ulrich Müther contributed an important chapter to the European history of shell construction. From 1963 on he realized pio...

A Perth Camera is a treasure trove of rediscovered images by the late Ernie Polis from a lifetime spent photographing the city. Followin...

For more than two decades, Beta-Plus Publishing has specialised in exclusive coffee table books on architecture, interiors and gardens. For the thi...