Author : Charles Willard Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520223578
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1974.
Author : Kate Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691193665
"A group of notable writers ... celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kevin L. Donihe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933929705
There once was an odd reclusive little man who was in love with his house. He loved this house not in the way that normal people love their homes. His was a more intimate love, like the love between two humans. He loved his house so much that he asked it to marry him, and he believed that his house happily relied with a yes. Unfortunately, their love was to be torn apart the day before their wedding, on the day of the great house holocaust. It was as if they killed themselves, and took many of the occupants with them. Distraught and despairing over the death of his fiancée, this man must go on a quest to find out what happened to his beloved home--Publisher's description.
Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816549028
Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat Mora’s House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand.
Author : Karrie Jacobs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1440684529
A home of one’s own has always been a cornerstone of the American dream, fulfilling like nothing else the desire for comfort, financial security, independence, and with a little luck, even a touch of distinctive character, or even beauty. But what we have come to regard as almost a national birthright has recently begun to elude more and more prospective homebuyers. Where housing is concerned, affordable and well-crafted rarely exist together. Or do they? For years, founding editor-in-chief of Dwell magazine and noted architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs had been confronting this question both professionally and personally. Finally, she decided to see for herself whether it was possible to build the home of her own dreams for a reasonable sum. The Perfect $100,000 House is the story of that quest, a search that takes her from a two-week crash course in housebuilding in Vermont to a road trip of some 14,000 miles. In the course of her journey Jacobs encounters a group of intrepid and visionary architects and builders working to revolutionize the way Americans thinks about homes, about construction techniques, and about the very idea of community. By her trip’s end Jacobs, has not only had a practical and sobering education in the economics, aesthetics, and politics of homebuilding, but has been spurred to challenge her own deeply held beliefs about what constitutes an ideal home. The Perfect $100,000 House is a compelling and inspiring demonstration that we can live in homes that are sensible, modest, and beautiful.
Author : Cathi House
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864702392
For more than twenty-five years House + House Architects have crafted intimate, personal architecture. Cathi and Steven House's extensive travels throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, with focused studies in the Mediterranean and Mexico, have molded
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Charles Scribner
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN :
Author : Bridget Vranckx
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 9781770855694
202 Outstanding House Ideas is packed with 600 pages of ideas for the dream house. For practicing professionals and homeowners this is a reference to successful designs chock full of ideas, analyses and successful applications from around the world. More than 750 outstanding interior and exterior color photographs, floor plans, elevations, renderings, and building sections showcase house exteriors and interiors constructed and finished with a great range of traditional and innovative materials, and set in a variety of climates and landscape settings. The houses are selections from a pool of the world's most interesting residential architecture. They include: House of Joyce and Jeroen, The Hague, the Netherlands Annandale House, Sydney, Australia Harris Residence, Washington, D.C. Hidden House, London, UK Stacked House, Montreal, Canada Townhouse, Landskrona, Sweden House in Rimini, Rimini, Italy Cloitre, Brussels, Belgium Jarego House, Cartaxo, Portugal. These houses are stimulating examples of what innovation can produce. Each house is presented over several double-page spreads that reveal the challenges of the site, the occupants' needs and the final design. Captions describe features and materials. A directory of architects and designers makes this a real-life resource. 202 Outstanding House Ideas is a comprehensive resource selection for homeowners, architects, builders, and interior designers looking for leading edge results.
Author : Gary L. Brewer
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 158093546X
For more than fifty years, Robert A.M. Stern Architects has designed extraordinary houses and residences around the world, each suffused with a rich understanding of traditional architecture and an intuitive sense of how to shape a home to the needs of modern life. Many of the firm's important early commissions were houses, and while RAMSA has since evolved into an internationally renowned firm with an extraordinarily broad portfolio, an unflagging dedication to timeless residential design has remained a cornerstone of the practice. In Houses: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, RAMSA's residential Partners--Roger H. Seifter, Randy M. Correll, Grant F. Marani, and Gary L. Brewer--offer an intimate look at RAMSA houses from the last ten years and explore how these residences embody the spirit of place and find harmony between the traditional and the contemporary. A 424-page visual feast of rich, full-color photographs and elegant drawings, the book presents a selection of 17 homes that showcase RAMSA's mastery of diverse styles and highlight the firm's collaboration with leading interior designers, landscape architects, craftspeople, and builders from around the world. Featured are a rambling oceanside retreat in East Hampton; a mountain penthouse in the Rocky Mountains; a lakeside cottage in the Midwest; an urbane Park Avenue apartment; an elegant Mediterranean Revival villa in Fort Lauderdale; and a house in Singapore in that city's distinctive "Black-and-White" style. Together, the homes epitomize the quality, craftsmanship, and undeniable presence that define every RAMSA residence. With every page, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how RAMSA's architects honor context and time-honored design principles while always looking to the future, infusing established tradition with fresh life and anticipating how each home will grow, change, and evolve over the years.
Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486271676
Detailed, accurate illustrations of 43 homes in wide range of styles: Mark Twain House, House of the Seven Gables, Nathan Hale Homestead, Robert Frost Place, The Breakers, many more. Informative captions.
