Residential Buildings, Domestic Buildings

'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at ...

Packed with accessible information, this book covers all the technical and practical aspects of home design in tropical environments.It begins by o...

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing polit...

In the architecture of Richard Neutra (18921970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek ...

Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stones throw from Spains southernmost tip, Morocco couldnt possibly be farther a...

Theres an elemental satisfaction in living in a cozy sanctuary in the midst of a snowy landscape. It evokes feelings of warmth, security, refuge, a...

Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (18871965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private vil...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

In the architecture of Richard Neutra (18921970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek ...

In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of...

The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the ...

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domestici...

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in ...

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublins mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporat...

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing polit...

New Town House brings together a collection of some of the more interesting and creative town house projects which have been recently constructed. ...

When much of our existing housing stock was built, lifestyles were very different. This means that a large proportion of a contemporary architect's...

For some time, residential architecture has not been limited simply to creating a place to live, but also to providing a quality of life for its oc...

After a golden era of house building in the 1930's, Britain emerged from the Second World War with a desperate need to rebuild its bomb damaged tow...

Arriving in the later 1890s, by the end of the First World War motor vehicles had ousted horses as the main means of transporting goods. In the int...

Until the 20th century, neither the capacity nor the means to inflict major damage upon the British Isles existed. This situation changed during th...

For this Los Angeles firm, modernism is not a matter of style or ideology, but rather a commonsense approach to contemporary living. Their goal is ...

The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selec...