Residential Buildings, Domestic Buildings

With the IBA_Vienna 2022, which was announced in 2016, the Austrian capital is taking on the challenges of an International Building Exhibition fo...

In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status an...

Originally published in 1995, Barns of the Midwest is a masterful example of material cultural history. It arrived at a critical moment for the agr...

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeco...

Mexico City’s latest and greatest residential buildings designed by the country’s leading architectural firms This volume brings together 10 resid...

Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments...

This is a history of domestic space in Canada. Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and ...

The industry standard illustrated guide from the National Kitchen and Bath Association Co-published by the National Kitchen and Bath Association (...

A comprehensive framework for capitalizing on the growing market for Continuing Care Retirement Communities. Senior Residences equips architects a...

In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many smal...

In early September 1051, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that 'the French had built a castle', the first Norman castle in England. Yet for centu...

Traditional designs for British farm buildings—barns, mills, pigsties, cowsheds, dovecotes, and other types—originated in the Middle Ages and devel...

Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the...

‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long abse...

Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues an...

Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues an...

The old cottages of Britain are amongst the country's best-loved treasures. Threatened on all sides - whether by the dilapidation of woodworm and d...

The English Country House takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning s...

Originally published in 1988, The Castles in England and Wales is a comprehensive treatment of the archaeology of the castles in England and Wales....

In the East Falls neighbourhood of Philadelphia, just beyond the northern boundary of the Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus, stands t...

The best new houses from Mexico, currently the exciting epicentre of the architecture scene fuelled by brilliant young practices, a booming economy...