Residential Buildings, Domestic Buildings

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...

Georgia OKeeffe spent almost 40 years of her life in the American Southwest. Her two houses in New Mexico; at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu and the lands...

Surmount and Dilute (3) presents a collection of architectural design solutions for sustainable urban development; focusing primarily on creating n...

A landmark volume to commemorate what is arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With stunning photography commis...

Life/Style is in the tradition of Jane Cumberbatch's classic book Pure Style. Designer Tricia Foley is also a popular devotee of pared-down, quiet ...