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This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

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From the placement of an antique French cabinet in a 1920s Rosario Candela apartment in New York City, to the replacement of mirrored halls for concrete floors in an oceanside deck in Palm Beach, this book offers practical guidelines for building, buying, or renovating to create the perfect home, revealing how to create homes of beauty and grace.

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In "Brave New Houses" Michael Webb illustrates how contemporary architects draw upon and extend the modernist legacy that has come to define southern California's architectural history.

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(Hardback)

The best domus coverage of the 1970s, a crucial era where postmodernist tendencies were first detected, individuality in style and construction methods began to make its mark, and the global energy crisis pushed ecological awareness to the fore. Featuring the capsule hotels by Kisho Kurokawa and the groundbreaking Centre Georges Pompidou by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.

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In this new book, Eric Ross showcases more of his most beautiful projects and gives tips on how to create the perennial Southern home regardless of where you live. Erics humorous and always insightful take on creating a polished, timeless room is an entertaining read.

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Reveals thirty treehouse structures. This title features houses that takes into account the local environment as well as the tree in which the structure stands. It includes photographs that show details of how the treehouses are constructed without driving nails into any part of the host tree to minimize the environmental impact.

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(Hardback, New Second edition)

Fully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the country houses in the care of the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design.

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Presenting a tour of the beach residences on six continents, this book includes floor plans, interiors and vistas from the best in modern coastline architecture, including houses in the United States, Spain, Portugal, France, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Japan and South Africa. It is illustrated with interiors, technical drawings and vistas.

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The design of multiple housing - a building type, especially for growing urban populations - was a major new area of activity for architects at the beginning of the twentieth century, and one that continues into the twenty-first century. This book features 87 of the most influential modern housing designs.

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"A detailed portrait of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment in Paris, perhaps the most celebrated modernist apartment ever produced - designed by Le Corbusier in the 1920s, but now sadly demolished"--

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(Hardback)

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

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The artists house is a prism through which to view not only the artistic practice

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The first English translation of Palladio in over 250 years, and the only translation available in modern English.

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"The history of an unusual house built on a rocky outcrop on the Sardinian coast, designed by the author's mother in the 1960s. Through this history the author presents a text that is in part memoir but also in part advocacy for a closer relationship between architecture and landscape"--

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The New Sri Lankan House charts the development of private houses in the 21st century in a variety of locations around the island.

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A celebration of The Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, and their care of historic American architecture, decoration and landscapes, spanning 75 years.

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Everyone's favourite butler is back! Get your home spic and span with these expert tips for everything from polishing silverware to organising the garage.

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This beautifully illustrated and practical guide provides the history of the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which draws many thousands of visitors each year.

(Hardback)

To create enough living space on the typically rather small pieces of land, the rooms in townhouses have to be layered and connected. These prerequisites are main characteristic features of townhouses. This volume presents projects in very different contexts, showing the great diversity of their functional and design possibilities.

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