Houses and Homes

Author: Barbara J. Howe
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761989295
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.

Houses and Homes

Author: Ann Morris
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780747449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A clear, declarative text combines with intriguing photographs to provide children with a unique view of the world and its people.

Designing Hollywood Homes

Author: Stephen Shadley
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847866599
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
An Architectural Digest Hall of Famer and interior designer to the stars showcases his rare and much-admired ability to set the perfect scene. See inside the beautiful homes of Hollywood icons like Jennifer Aniston, Robert Altman, and Ryan Murphy—with stunning full-color photographs and a foreword by Diane Keaton. Designer extraordinaire Stephen Shadley began his working life as a scenic artist at 20th Century Fox. Throughout a celebrated career (landing a coveted spot on the AD100), his work has been marked continually by the glamour of Hollywood as well as by a kind of visual storytelling that is richly informed by the world of the movie screen and by the artifice and allure of film’s great cinematographers. Inside, you’ll find numerous beautifully designed homes of Hollywood royalty, including: • Diane Keaton’s classic Beverly Hills abode • Robert Altman’s apartment in the legendary Pythian building on New York’s Upper West Side • Jennifer Aniston’s luxurious 1970s home in Beverly Hills • Three greenrooms Shadley designed for the Oscars and Emmy Awards • Plus much more in Southern California, New York, and beyond! Notable for their expression of an exquisite sense of style, Shadley’s designed homes are all expressions of a masterful sense of scale and an appreciation for understated beauty and refined materials that are ultimately warm, inviting, and serene.

America's Favorite Homes

Author: Robert Schweitzer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814320066
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
During the first four decades of the twentieth century, prefabricated and catalogue homes grew in popularity and number. Built and occupied by farmers, merchants, the new armies of factory workers and other lower- and middle-class families, these are the modest homes that today line American streets. Using mail-order house catalogues from the time, Robert Schweitzer and Michael W. R. Davis chart the development of catalogue houses and their variations and include floor plans for many models. Students of architecture, whether amateur of professional, preservationists and academics will find in America's Favorite Homes a handy reference to those homes that soon will be eligible for historic designation.

Homes for Our Time 2

Author: Philip Jodidio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents this housing revolution. It explores new approaches in building and presents resourceful and green private homes. This is a multilingual edition - English, French, German.

Colonial Houses

Author: Hugh Howard
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810943391
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
For anyone interested in learning about or creating an authentic Colonial-style home, Bob Vila collaborator Hugh Howard provides a tour of selected Colonial Williamsburg classic homes. Floor plans & full-color photos.

Houses and Homes

Author: Pam Holden
Publisher: Red Rocket Readers
ISBN: 9781877419300
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A introduction to houses and homes in simple text and colourful photographs. Includes teaching notes.

Passive Houses

Author: Chris van Uffelen
Publisher: Braun Publishing AG
ISBN:
Category : Architecture and Planning
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
The new generation of ecological architecture building owners today are increasingly confronted with the question of energy efficiency. Depending on the climatic zone, passive houses require very different technologies, interventions and steps to be taken by the architects. This volume portrays 60 single family passive houses.

Single-Family Houses

Author: Chris van Uffelen
Publisher: Braun Publishing AG
ISBN: 9783037682531
Category : Architect-designed houses
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Neither mass accomodation nor luxury villa, but an extraordinary variety of well designed middle-class family dwellings in Germany.

Old Houses

Author: Henry Wiencek
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
From an unrestored masterpiece such as the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, South Carolina, to a farmhouse in upstate New York, inhabited only by a bird nesting in the bathroom sink, Old Houses profiles 20 houses whose peeling paint, faded fabrics, and antique furniture impart a surprising elegance and beauty. An unusual volume, this book will appeal to historians, restoration specialists, and style-conscious homeowners lookingfor new ideas form examples of the past. Over 250 full-color photographs.