Buildings

Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, ...

Small Enough To Fit In A Pocket Yet Serious Enough To Provide Real Answers, This Primer Is A Must-have For Architecture And History Buffs, Tourists, And Chu...

“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us...

Journalist Julie Satow's Thrilling, Unforgettable History Of How One Illustrious Hotel Has Defined Our Understanding Of Money And Glamour, From The Gilded A...

It Was The Splendor--and The Scandal--of The Age, The Defining Event Of The High Renaissance. In 1506, The Ferociously Ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius Ii ...

A classic reference, the Graphic Guide to Frame Construction is a comprehensive visual handbook filled with hundreds of meticulous drawings showing the fram...

Green woodwork is creative and inexpensive to learn. The beauty of working green (or unseasoned) wood is that by using traditional skills and a few simple t...

Photography By Jorg Brockmann ; Text By Bill Harris. Includes Index.Categories: Arts & Photography ArchitectureHistory

A New York Times bestseller Jonathan and Drew Scott have taken HGTV by storm with their four hit shows, Property Brothers, Property Brothers at Home, Buyin...

A master tile-setter unveils his craft to those wishing to try their hands at tiling. He guides the reader through theory into practice with a series of pro...

Discover the lasting satisfaction of working with stone and learn the tricks of the trade from a master craftsman. No building material rivals stone for b...

Globally renowned architect Tye Farrow bridges the gap in knowledge between the therapeutic medical world and the design community to reveal how the intenti...

campers, Anglers, Hunters, And Nature Lovers - The Woodland Hideaway You’ve Dreamed Of Is In These Pages! whether You Long For An Elegant Water Gazebo, A ...

Relieve your stress with dot to dot books for adults! This extreme dot to dot landmark book will help you unwind at the end of the day. You'll never get bo...

Comprehensive and up-to-date- the classic visual guide to the basics of building construction For twenty-five years, Building Construction Illustrated has o...

"A beautiful, full-color 144-page book comes in this birdhouse kit. The package includes all the materials you need, complete step-by-step instructions, an...

Complete Step-by-step Instructions For Building Or Repairing Walls And Ceilings. basic Techniques For Planning, Selecting, Cutting, Hanging, Taping, ...

A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into half a doz...

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguis...

Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking dif...

The best way to see—really see—any city is on foot. The perennial favorite Washington on Foot has been completely revised and updated to offer 24 walkin...

The first book on the life and work of the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture. Nineteenth-century American inventor and entrepreneur James Bogardus...

Introduction: A Religious Architecture -- The First Rock-cut Temples: From Man-made Caves To Stone-built Temples -- The Great Flowering Of Medieval Temples:...

In City Life, Witold Rybczynski Looks At What We Want From Cities, How They Have Evolved, And What Accounts For Their Unique Identities. In This Vivid Descr...

With over 300 full-color photographs, this is the first fully illustrated book devoted to Christian houses of worship in Egypt. The text incorporates the la...

Right Next To The Colosseum In Rome Stands The Arch Of Constantine. Completed Ad 312-315, It Was Built To Celebrate Ten Years Of The Emperor Constantine's R...

Concrete's multifaceted nature has made it very popular today with planners and builders. Besides the enormous potential inherent in its load-bearing capaci...

Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context,his text considers Gropius' Dessau Bauhaus, Le Coubusier's Unite deabitation a...

From Bjarke Ingels Group's Via West 57 To Shop Architects' Barclays Center, And From Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line To Som's One World Trade Center, N...

It may be that the developers, residents, and corporate owners of the new American village have gotten exactly what they want. Like all such rare complete ...

For many, eco skyscrapers are synonymous with Ken Yeang. In more than three decades of practice, Ken Yeang has almost single-handedly pioneered and develope...

Margaret Visser's desire to find answers to her own questions -- as a traveler, a believer, and an insatiable "anthropologist of everyday life" -- led her t...

Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the...