By Andreas Friedrich
ISBN-10: 3743174251
ISBN-13: 9783743174252
By Andreas Friedrich
ISBN-10: 3743174251
ISBN-13: 9783743174252
By Thomas Dolan
ISBN-10: 0470604808
ISBN-13: 9780470604809
ISBN-10: 7121253569
ISBN-13: 9787121253560
-Peter Katz, writer, The New Urbanism, and making plans Director, Arlington County, Virginia
Live-Work making plans and Design is the one entire consultant to the layout and making plans of live-work areas for architects, designers, and concrete planners. Readers will examine from equipped examples of live-work, either new development and protection, in quite a few destinations. city planners, builders, and financial improvement employees will find out how a variety of municipalities have built and integrated live-work inside of development codes and town plans. the writer, whose pioneering site, www.live-work.com, has been guiding practitioners and clients of live-work in view that 1998, is the us' best professional at the subject.
By Mike Holmes
ISBN-10: 155468031X
ISBN-13: 9781554680313
Anyone who has deliberate a protection venture is aware that there are lots of, usually tough, judgements to make alongside the best way. As Canada’s so much depended on contractor, Mike has noticeable the nice, the undesirable and the grotesque. He presents professional suggestion in all features of making plans and finishing the commonest preservation tasks so owners will
Packed with color photos, illustrations and sidebars, those new Make It Right™ books may also help make certain owners steer clear of high priced errors and get their preservation correct the 1st time.
By Jim Cooper
ISBN-10: 081173479X
ISBN-13: 9780811734790
By Editors of Creative Publishing
ISBN-10: 1589234588
ISBN-13: 9781589234581
Outdoor carpentry tasks utilizing cedar, redwood, and pressure-treated pine are ideal for DIYers of all ability degrees, because the fabrics are effortless to paintings with, and the consequences are rewarding. This ebook gains greater than 50 tasks that simply should be inbuilt a weekend with usual energy hand instruments and fabrics to be had at any neighborhood domestic heart or ironmongery shop. each one undertaking has whole building plans and instructions for foolproof results.
By Willi Weber,Simos Yannas
ISBN-10: 1844076008
ISBN-13: 9781844076000
The architectural neighborhood has had a robust and carrying on with curiosity in conventional and vernacular structure. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture takes classes without delay from conventional and vernacular structure and provides them to the reader as counsel and idea for brand spanking new structures. definitely the right technical and social recommendations supplied through vernacular and standard structure are analysed intimately. foreign case reviews specialise in environmental layout facets of conventional structure in a huge variety of weather conditions and construction types.
By Jeff Wilson
ISBN-10: 1603584501
ISBN-13: 9781603584500
With better public knowledge of the necessity for strength independence, the difficulty of the way we will make our current houses extra source effective is changing into ever extra serious. Residential constructions make up a wide fraction of our strength wishes, principally as a result of heating and air-conditioning. So it truly is now not adequate to easily do the small stuff, like switching to compact fluorescent bulbs, or turning down the thermostat at night.
In The Greened-House Effect, writer Jeff Wilson brings his twenty-five years of building event and information of domestic development to endure on making our present homes cleanser, greener, and more fit. think about a deep-energy retrofit (DER) as a "home makeover" - person who represents an important funding, yet that saves funds from the get-go through shooting the power you "drop at the flooring" each month, each year, via inefficiency, bad layout, or just residing in a standard older home.
Using his personal family's DER in their 1942 domestic as a primary instance, Wilson weaves a readable narrative at a realistic, hammer-and-nail point. He provides the ideas to our development and effort difficulties, making them look attainable for commonplace owners and small contractors via delivering the suitable set of knowledge, talents, and materials.
More technical details is gifted in sidebars and graphs, and various colour pictures illustrate the method, including:
Wilson's development adventure, with his lifelong ardour for strength concerns, all come jointly to shape an inspirational, can-do method of making our local, our neighborhood, our state, and our international a greater position - one domestic at a time.
By Gustav Stickley
ISBN-10: 1602393036
ISBN-13: 9781602393035
In 1901, Gustav Stickley started to create the first uniquely American kind of furnishings and domestic designknown as Craftsman. Stickley's ideas of domestic layout comprise building that's in concord with its panorama, open ground plans, integrated garage, and common lighting fixtures. He used to be a huge impression on Frank Lloyd Wright, and he is still one of many nice names in American structure. Craftsman houses and Bungalows showcases his paintings in an inexpensive, beautiful new version. that includes enormous quantities of black-and-white images, line drawings, and sketches of cabins, cottages, and bungalows from inspiration to accomplished product, it offers easy-to-understand instructions on either domestic development and development. This source, a mixture of 3 of Stickley's works, is a complete creation to the layout and development of gorgeous Craftsman homes.
By Matthew Johnson
ISBN-10: 0415258871
ISBN-13: 9780415258876
ISBN-10: 0415261007
ISBN-13: 9780415261005
In this attractive ebook Matthew Johnson appears 'behind the fortress gate' to find the reality approximately castles in England on the finish of the center Ages.
Traditional reviews have visible castles as compromises among the wishes of convenience and of defence, and as statements of wealth or energy or either. by means of encouraging the reader to view castles relating to their population, Matthew Johnson uncovers an entire new vantage element. He exhibits how castles functioned as stage-settings opposed to which individuals performed out roles of lord and servant, husband and spouse, father and son. construction, rebuilding and dwelling in a fortress was once as advanced an adventure as a bit of medieval art.
Behind the citadel Gate brings castles and their population alive. Combining ground-breaking scholarship with attention-grabbing narratives it will likely be learn avidly by means of all with an curiosity in castles.
By John Ambrose Jr.
ISBN-10: 1413401848
ISBN-13: 9781413401844
·Remember – ask questions, many questions in the course of your layout phase.
·This publication can assist you intend your house and use specialists to complete advantage.
·Insist on caliber fabrics and workmanship – bring it to mind is your home.
i've got painted many huge houses over a few thirty years. frequently tasks lead to disputes among proprietors and contractors. I essentially suggest this ebook – it's a very good device to aid the capability house owner comprehend the levels of domestic building.
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Glen Rock, NJ
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