Residential Buildings, Domestic Buildings

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander has created a stunning coloring book with every detail rooted in the...

English novelist Anthony Trollope described Victoria's Western District squatters in the 1870s as 'plentiful, proud, prejudiced, given to hospitali...

This book tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America s leading aristocrats of the day, L...

Country houses are becoming more popular as the urban stress rises around the globe - living in the countryside means giving a piece of peace back ...

Swimming pools: whether they look directly out over the sea or are set in a garden, whether they have a free form or are more geometrically shaped,...

The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent ''in service'' are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the phy...

Elizabeth of Bohemia, known to some as the Winter Queen and to others as the Queen of Hearts, was one of those rare figures whose personality still...

A beautiful book of stunning images of the prettiest, most charming and best-loved Australian country homes, drawn from the pages of one of Austral...

Discover Britain's magnificent heritage of country houses in this lavishly illustrated guide to the architectural treasures of the United Kingdom. ...

'I tend to regard Renishaw as the mistress of my old age, beautiful, charming, moody and unpredictable.' -- Sir Reresby Sitwell. Renishaw Hall in D...

There is another William Morris. Not the William Morris of Arts and Crafts fame treasured for his ever-so-English wallpapers, fabrics and furniture...

Woburn Abbey: The Park and Gardens tells a fascinating story that illuminates both the history of English landscaping and the highs and lows of an ...

Such a joy of a book Faith Hogan, author of The Ladies Midnight Swimming ClubFamily stalemates are unravelled in this moving novel about three stro...

Notable writersincluding UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglowcelebrate our fascination with the hous...

'This was a BEAUTIFUL love story. If you enjoyed The Flatshare, you will love Lease on Love!' reader review'I don't think I have ever been in l...

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

'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 ...

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

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...

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...

The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully me...

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...

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...

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...