Category: Architecture | Series: The\Shelter Library of Building Bks.
These days, homeowners, designers, architects (no less), road gypsies, water dwellers, dreamers, people of all ages, all over the world are making do creatively with under-500 sq. ft. shelters. This is a real and powerful alternative to high rents, or a lifelong obligation to a bank on an overpriced hom ...Show more
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A showcase of sustainable living in prefab, solar, mobile and modular houses. In this book, architect Ana Maria Alvarez presents an array of the world's best sustainable residential architecture. Studying houses in many countries, she provides photographs, floor plans and elevations, mechanical schemati ...Show more
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Its presence in architectural history proves that few materials provide as much security and warmth as stone. This book contains a selection of stone built houses, an optimal choice for those looking to retreat from the noise, pollution and stress of big city living and who long to live in a more natura ...Show more
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The aim of this series is to be a reference for everyone who wants to furnish or decorate a new house or give a different impulse to the home. With different approaches to the same theme, the interior design, the reader will find in every book different ideas that will definitely help decorate a space p ...Show more
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In an increasingly frenetic and fractured world, we have lost the essence of ourselves. This book is a guide to stripping away artifice in your life to discover your 'broad place', where you come into contact with your higher self as a creative and conscious human.High-Grade Living demonstrates how a st ...Show more
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ARCHITECTURE. In this book, concepts on arranging individual outdoor areas are introduced. Combining plants or lively water elements, such as fountains, pools and ponds, enable terraces, gardens or balconies to become resting places and additional living spaces. Even the integration of outdoor cooking a ...Show more
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Cabins have become one of the favourite hiding places for people looking for a perfect place to rest and connect with nature. Environmentally friendly homes, cutting-edge sustainable architecture that have ecological solutions and a low environmental impact. Buildings with smart and compact design, in w ...Show more
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An introduction to architectural creation, the 95 precut cardboard elements in this book can be combined in an infinite variety of ways to build all sorts of fantastical structures. Follow the full-color idea diagrams to create more than 20 unique projects, then disassemble them and try something differ ...Show more
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The large-scale sculptural environments of the work of Barbara Grygutis shape the spaces they inhabit. Grygutis employs the materials that complement each context, creating her works out of glass and light or metal mesh through which light shines in addition to prosaic essentials like steel and concrete ...Show more
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Set between the sound and the sea, Long Island is home to some of America's most intriguing country houses. This book highlights the best examples, telling the story of each through outstanding contemporary color photography. The dwellings, which began as 17th-century homesteads and 18th-century, high-s ...Show more
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Rome, the 'Eternal City', is not only enriched by buildings and monuments that preserve the culture of Italy in the symbolic center of Christianity and the hub of the Italian Republic. The architecture of Rome also tells the story of a process of restoration and innovation. During the 1930s, the social ...Show more