Author : Stephen White
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
A fully-illustrated record of the architectural and environmental concerns of the leading architect Joseph Allen Stein. One of the most influential architects to work in India, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian Government.
Author : Robert Rich
Publisher : Anina's Book Company
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Adobe houses
ISBN : 9780670028634
At a time when housing costs and interest rates have put the Australian dream of owning a house beyond the reach of many people, Bob Rich and Keith Smith show how even the most impractical person can learn to build their own home. The authors were not originally skilled craftsmen and they use their personal experiences, successes and failures to explain the building and design processes to beginners. Their approach is practical and analytical, but their language is straightforward and dynamic. The book covers a wide range of topics including: how to be your own architect and create energy efficient housing designs safeguarding the house from bushfires, cyclones and floods footings, floors, roofs, doors and windows mudbrick, rammed earth, stone and weatherboard walls building skills such as measuring, sawing, hammering, bricklaying and glass cutting information, advice and personal experiences from a variety of other builders
Author : Kate Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000701476
The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the 21st Century. Bringing together key findings from the TCPA’s campaign work, and drawing on lessons from the first garden cities, the new towns programme and other large-scale developments, it identifies what steps need to be taken in order to deliver the highest standards of design and place making today.
Author : Toby Hemenway
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1603580298
This extensively revised and expanded edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban gardeners. The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.
Author : Jean Stiles
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1581576579
Here is the very best of backyard building: Popular building authors Jeanie and David Stiles—whose treehouse once garnered a spread in Architectural Digest—have gathered dozens of original plans for treehouses, playhouses, and sheds, as well as a summer house, tea house, garden arbor, and functional workroom. Backyard Building will cover backyard accessories, the fundamentals of tools and materials, and useful tips based on real-life questions from the couple’s popular website. Its unique style, with hand-drawn illustrations to guide the reader through the building process in a user-friendly way, stands out from the crowd. The clear, detailed drawings are not only easy to follow but a pleasure to look at; they are supplemented by irresistible color photographs.
Author : Ruthanna Emrys
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250210976
A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extra-terrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach. On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm—and stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. And if humanity doesn't agree, they may need to be saved by force. But the watershed networks that rose up to save the planet from corporate devastation aren't ready to give up on Earth. Decades ago, they reorganized humanity around the hope of keeping the world livable. By sharing the burden of decision-making, they've started to heal our wounded planet. Now corporations, nation-states, and networks all vie to represent humanity to these powerful new beings, and if anyone accepts the aliens' offer, Earth may be lost. With everyone’s eyes turned skyward, the future hinges on Judy's effort to create understanding, both within and beyond her own species. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2003-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0881925594
Covers mixed garden design concepts, exploring color, texture, form, principles, and maintenance.
Author : Penny Swift
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 160765511X
• Beautifully illustrated outdoor DIY project book. • 35 Step-by-step projects in 4 categories: Brick, Stone, Water, and Wood. • Attractive lawn and garden improvements for homeowners. • Shows how to construct professional-looking, stylish structures using basic equipment and easy-to-learn skills. • Inspirational new color photos.
Author : Michael Van Valkenburgh
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1580935524
The intimate Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of noted landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. In Designing a Garden, Van Valkenburgh presents the design of the Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an intimate, walled garden that Laurie Olin has described as "a masterpiece, and not a minor one." The book documents the evolution of the garden's design, which is based on the concept of meandering paths through a dreamlike woodland to create a contemplative space. Sketches and models show how the idea was worked out, and lush photographs reveal the completed garden through the seasons. Van Valkenburgh's text explores the origins of his love of landscape and plants in his family farm in Upstate New York and how this has influenced his intuitions as a designer. He shares the full background story of the Monk's Garden, focusing on the experimental nature of design work as well as the challenges and satisfactions of the small scale and the historic and cultural context. Designing a Garden provides a unique first-person account of the design process from the most prominent landscape architects in the country.
Author : Fern Marshall Bradley
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1612126170
For beginning gardeners and homeowners, this handbook shows you exactly how to plan, build, and plant a simple raised bed. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy and ensure success! In just a weekend, using a few basic materials and minimal building skills, you can set up a complete garden bed adapted for vegetables, flowers, or herbs.
