Residential Buildings, Domestic Buildings

If you’ve ever dreamt of designing and building your own home, this book is for you. Becoming a ‘self-builder’ doesn’t necessarily mean learning t...

Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozamb...

Half-timbered houses, cottages and barnes are a familiar feature of the landscape, but only rarely do we have an opportunity to see below the surfa...

B.C. Binning taught that architecture has an intrinsic link to art and life. This book follows in his footsteps, focusing on what is arguably his g...

In the process of modernization, many North American cities have razed their residential neighborhoods to make way for apartment buildings, condomi...

Merrick juxtaposed just three simple materials when he built his iconic piece of residential architecture. Yet what emerged transcended any indivi...

Regardless of individual taste, some homes are indisputably more charged, have more atmosphere and are more welcoming than others. But what is it t...

From a huge former cold storage plant located in a remote corner of Chile and a sugar refinery in rural China to a hundred-year-old belt factory in...

For reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site ...

Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and i...

A new edition of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to the military architecture of the West, written by T. E. Lawrence (of Ar...

The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 signalled the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine and throughout the Eastern Medite...

Revolutionizing landscape architecture through the use of intelligent materials and technologies Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovati...

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is known as the architect who has guided Western design philosophy for half a millennium, creating forms that have been...

Communal living, intergenerational living, living for families, handicap-accessible living, living and working, living and leisure time – the wide ...

This beautifully illustrated large-format monograph reveals how multi-disciplinary architectural firm 212box has crafted a luxurious and bespoke pe...

A beautiful and comprehensive chronicle of two of America's earliest and most luxurious suburbs: Highland Park and University Park, Texas, featurin...

Matthew Parris's A Castle in Spain is one man's attempt to transform a magnificent forgotten ruin into his own castle.Walking in the Pyrenees one s...

First published in 1961, The English Farmhouse and Cottage brings together the evidence collected by those who have studied vanished buildings by e...

The history of each house is examined, any special features or incidents concerning the building including any ghostly visitors, the various owners...

Long-held associations between women, home, food, and cooking are beginning to unravel as, in a growing number of households, men are taking on foo...

Westminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built...