A primer for the beginning house designer emphasizing the land and sustainability. Appropriate for someone who is interested in making a career of designing single family houses or is merely interested in getting involved in designing a house just for themselves and their family. This book will then serve as a reference throughout the beginners initial efforts and beyond. The content attempts several things: Providing the beginner with an overview of the subject thereby allowing their determination of the feasibility of their interests. Education of both the career residential designer and the individual homeowner in the scope of good design, some of the technical intricacies, the necessary minimum efforts and where to head if one chooses to develop their skills further. Streamlining technical areas into tips and rules of thumb to get the beginner started while they embark on the lengthy process of digesting the industry. Description of places where the designer or homeowner can choose to fore go involvement or not. Revealing design's place in the wider construction industry. Pointing to the other 'players' and how to use them. And Last but not least, exploring some of more important values of going "green."

Coloring book of many popular house plans available at dantyree.com.

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Wo sich wahrend des NS-Regimes die Zentralen der Gestapo, der SS und des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes befanden, ist mitten in Berlin ein Lern- und Erinnerungsort mit jahrlich mehr als einer Million Besucher*innen entstanden. In diesem Band berichtet Historiker Andreas Nachama, von 1994 bis 2019 Direktor der Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, von seinen ersten persoenlichen Begegnungen mit dem Ort und zeichnet den Weg von der Entstehung und Etablierung der Topographie des Terrors nach, an der er seit den 1980er-Jahren entscheidend mitwirkte. Die Architektin und Ausstellungsgestalterin Ursula Wilms und der Landschaftsarchitekt Heinz W. Hallmann legen die Leitgedanken ihres Entwurfs fur die Neugestaltung der Topographie des Terrors dar - ein Gesamtkonzept aus Architektur, Landschaftsarchitektur und Ausstellungsgestaltung. Erstmals werden in dem Band die Fotografien Friederike von Rauchs veroeffentlicht, in denen die Kunstlerin die Atmosphare des Ortes kurz vor dessen Fertigstellung im Jahr 2010 festgehalten hat.

Loft Residence started in specific groups such as artists, artisans and designers. At first, loft residence referred to a tall and spacious living space which was converted from a discarded factory or warehouse. And now, loft residence has developed into a unique design style, highly personalised and artistic. In this book, two types of loft (hard loft and soft loft), and three styles industrial, contemporary, mix and match) will be introduced with the basic knowledge of home furnishing and home decoration. Those projects in different styles will inspire readers with their creativity and excellent design.

During the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S. Originally published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not common in the U. S. The shift to large-scale speculative subdivisions is usually attributed to the period after World War II. In Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s, Carolyn S. Loeb shows that the precedents for this change in single-family home design were the result of concerted efforts by entrepreneurial realtors and other housing professionals during the 1920s. In her discussion of the historical and structural forces that propelled this change, Loeb focuses on three typical speculative subdivisions of the 1920s and on the realtors, architects, and building-craftsmen who designed and constructed them. These examples highlight the "shared set of planning and design concerns" that animated realtors (whom Loeb sees as having played the "key role" in this process) and the network of housing experts with whom they associated. Decentralized and loosely coordinated, this network promoted home ownership through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and construction which the author describes as a new and "entrepreneurial" vernacular.

The Unite in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unite in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhauser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unites in Reze-les-Nantes, Briey en Foret, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.

STAYING POWER: Age-Proof Your Home for Comfort, Safety and Style helps you shape your space to meet your changing needs as you grow older. It's "sensible, useful, comprehensive and engagingly written," says Paula Span of The New York Times "New Old Age" blog. STAYING POWER: Age-Proof Your Home for Comfort, Safety and Style helps you shape your space to meet your changing needs as you grow older. This practical, problem-solving handbook can help you and the people you care about enjoy freedom, comfort and safety in familiar surroundings. So belly up to the grab bar and... Boost your independence as your abilities change. Easily customize your furnishings, layout and decor without breaking your back or your budget. Stay healthy with home-based mind-and-body fitness tips. Discover hundreds of valuable U.S. and Canadian resources to help with your specific situation. Use handy checklists and shopping lists to organize and kick-start your age-proofing projects. Whether you're planning ahead, ready to act, or helping someone else, learn how to make any type of house, apartment or condo a safer, more supportive home for years to come. This practical, problem-solving handbook can help you and the people you care about enjoy freedom, comfort and safety in familiar surroundings. So belly up to the grab bar and... Boost your independence as your abilities change. Easily customize your furnishings, layout and decor without breaking your back or your budget. Stay healthy with home-based mind-and-body fitness tips. Discover hundreds of valuable U.S. and Canadian resources to help with your specific situation. Use handy checklists and shopping lists to organize and kick-start your age-proofing projects. Whether you're planning ahead, ready to act, or helping someone else, learn how to make any type of house, apartment or condo a safer, more supportive home for years to come.

This book answers the question "How did the 1933 World's Fair Century of Progress Exhibit Buildings get moved from Chicago to Beverly Shores, Indiana in the 1930's?" Amateur historians around the world will love unveiling the mystery surrounding this conundrum by Mr. Daniel Craig Grandfield, landscape architect.

The design of a new house, or the remodel of an existing home, requires not only creativity and insight but also a structured and organized approach to its planning and development. As a full service architectural firm specializing in residential design we have written this book to help facilitate this organization for a successfully planned and designed project. We also want to prepare you to take well grounded and informed steps forward in how you work with your architect and builder. Over the past twenty years of our practice, we have found that the information, questions, comments and observations presented in this book, are the basic and essential core elements of a good project. This is the information that should not be overlooked in the design of a new house, or remodel of an existing home.

With gracious residential boulevards, soaring cathedrals, and some of this country's first skyscrapers nestled amid bustling city blocks, St. Louis is home to buildings city blocks, St. Louis is home to buildings designed by some of America's best-known architects, including Cass Gilbert and Louis Sullivan. But no single architectural firm has shaped the style of the city known as the Gateway to the West more than Maritz & Young. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Raymond E. Maritz and W. Ridgely Young built more than a hundred homes in the most affluent neighborhoods of St. Louis County, counting among their clientele a who's who of the city's most prominent citizens. The Architecture of Maritz & Young is the most complete collection of their work, featuring more than two hundred photographs, architectural drawings, and original floor plans of homes built in a variety of styles, from Spanish Eclectic to Tudor Revival. Alongside these historic images, Kevin Amsler and L. John Schott have provided descriptions of each residence detailing the original owners. Lovingly compiled from a multitude of historical sources and rare books, this is the definitive history of the domestic architecture that still defines St. Louis.

Park Hill, a huge concrete-framed modernist social-housing scheme, was completed in 1961 when Sheffield had near full employment and young architects - in this case Ivor Smith and Jack Lynn - were developing new ways to satisfy the need for affordable flats for rent. Since then the national housing scene has been transformed, a change embodied in the fate of Park Hill, stripped back to its frame and recast for, largely, private ownership. Keith Collie's photographs capture the cliff-like grandeur and formal beauty of this massive structure in ruins and the epic scale of the renovation. David Levitt provides the background to the current renovation project by developer Urban Splashm and Jeremy Till's essay puts the Park Hill story into the wider context of architecture and the welfare state.

When architect Peter Cowman dreamed up his groundbreaking Be Your Own Architect concept he quickly discovered that his university education had neglected to teach him the rudiments of house design Realising that people had always practiced a vernacular architecture he set out to revive this tradition. Vernacular styles of building are characterised by their simplicity, by their use of local materials and by the ease with which they can be constructed. The knowledge required for their creation was long regarded as being common knowledge and freely available to all. Information on how to create vernacular architecture has been forgotten due to the oral nature of the tradition While there are many books which detail aspects of house design, instruction on how to utilise this wealth of information is virtually non-existent. In this innovative and supremely practical Manual Peter Cowman articulates what can only be described as the secrets of vernacular architecture, or, as he calls it, sheltermaking . With its emphasis on the positive, the practical and the affordable The Sheltermaker s Manual articulates a proven design methodology for the creation of versatile and meaningful designs suited to the modern world, information which can be applied both to new as well as to existing buildings - in whatever part of the world one happens to live.

There are many hidden aspects to the process of sheltermaking . Peter Cowman refers to these as the invisible architecture . Unseen yet powerful in their effect, one will ignore these at one s peril We are invited to think of this invisible architecture not just in terms of physical buildings but also in terms of our dream world and the lives we have to live. When we become aware of the power of this living of one s architecture we are presented with a dynamic tool for practical change in our lives. In this indispensable companion to Volume 1, revelation of the mysteries of sheltermaking can be said to be complete. With its roots in Sacred Geometry, Feng Shui and Vastu Shastra traditions this Manual will forever change how we think of architecture, houses and even ourselves Building on the firm foundation laid down in Volume 1 this volume deals with the selection of appropriate materials and their assembly. Also covered are plumbing, drainage and electrical services, planning and site selection, and, the all important layout when the plan is assembled. Costing and the preparation of planning and working drawings are covered also.