Architectural Industrial category: 165 books
by Chami Jotisalikorn, Karina Zabihi
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
With over 180 photographs, Contemporary Asian Bathrooms presents the newest trends emerging in Asian home design.
A talented new wave of designers based in Asia is creating chic modern interiors that fuse Western design ideas with traditional Asian motifs, materials and craftsmanship. The result...
by John Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The unreliability of the San Diego River compelled the Franciscan fathers to construct the area's first dam in 1813 to conserve drinking and irrigation water for the Mission San Diego de Alcalá. This water-driven circumstance continued and expanded in the ensuing American era. Lacking a reliable...
Bali Houses
New Wave Asian Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This Balinese design book, containing over 300 beautiful photos and extensive commentary will add a distinctive tropical flair to your interior decorating and architecture.
The phenomenon loosely termed "Bali style" has been the subject matter for countless books on art, architecture,...
Japan Modern
New Ideas for Contemporary Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This Japanese design book, featuring over 200 stunning photographs, captures the delightful, modern style of the Japanese home.
Japan has always intrigued the world with its deceptively simple blending of architecture, landscape and design. Zen temples, the famous tea ceremony, formal gardens,...
Sri Lanka Style
Tropical Design and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Sri Lanka Style showcases 30 of the finest traditional and modern dwellings in Sri Lanka.
Reflecting its location and status as a hub of Indian Ocean trade from time immemorial, the tropical island of Sri Lanka has always been open to the movements and patterns of world culture. Indigenous...
Houses of Civil War America
The Homes of Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and Others Who Shaped the Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A revealing historical and photographic tour of the homes of influential Civil War figures, including Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, Stonewall Jackson, and others.
Timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and a fitting sequel to Houses...
New Asian Style
Contemporary Tropical Living in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
More than ever before, interior design is a global affair. And more than ever, Westerners are eager to try out elements of Asian design. This book is the ultimate resource for professional and amateur designers seeking to recreate the mysterious elegance, balance, and beauty of Asian design. Through...
by James Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
Touring south to north, from San Diego through Santa Barbara County, this unique compendium takes the reader through the Southern California Mission System as portrayed on vintage postcards. The book elaborates on the missions� myriad functions along the coastal El Camino Real through several centuries...
by Robert Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Singapore Houses features top architects and designers with ideas that are stylish, contemporary, and show twenty-first century savvy.
The houses in this book epitomize cutting-edge residential architecture in Singapore. they demonstrate a remarkable surge of design exploration in the city-state....
Things Change
A reflection on the 70s, now and tomorrow thru images of Boston
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Boston has evolved with more of a charge than a crawl in the past forty years. And the larger society has not lagged either in terms of cultural and technological changes. Through more than 230 images of Boston, Things Change explores some of these changes and spotlights ideas and products that might...
Stillness and Light
The Silent Eloquence of Shaker Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Shaker buildings have long been admired for their simplicity of design and sturdy craftsmanship, with form always following function. Over the years, their distinctive physical characteristics have invited as much study as imitation. Their clean, unadorned lines have been said to reflect core Shaker...
by William Warren
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Tropical Asian Style showcases contemporary residences throughout Southeast Asia-from Chiang Mai to Bali, Kuala Lampur to Java.
This contemporary Asian design book contains over 400 color photos by world-renowned photographer Luca Invernizzi Tettoni. Each home is designed to achieve perfect...
by James Bretz
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
In spite of its relentless reputation as a �cow town,� Denver has grown from a dusty prairie burg into a thriving metropolis nestled against the foothills of the great Rocky Mountains. Gold brought the area�s first settlers in the 1850s, and mining camps sprouted up along the confluence of Cherry...
by Tom Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The state of Oregon has had not one, not two, but three state capitol buildings. Two of them met a sudden and unexpected end�destruction by fire. William Willson, a pioneer of Salem, donated some acres from his Donation Land Claim for a state capitol. The first, built in 1855, may have been torched...