Cabins: Escape to Nature by IMAGES PUBLISHING
Category: Architecture
Almost everyone has indulged in the irresistible notion of carving out a romantic rural refuge in a typically rustic setting, beside a beach or meadow, in the mountains, or other pristine environments. This book brings together the infinite number of possibilities of beautiful and creative cabin design ...Show more
A Pocketful of Beach Houses by Images Publishing Staff; Stephen Crafti
Category: Architecture | Series: Pocketful Ser.
This latest addition to IMAGES' Pocketful series offers more than 50 examples of the best residential beach architecture in Australia and New Zealand today. Superb architect-designed homes, which in many cases have been adapted to harsh beachside environments, are explained and illustrated with beautifu ...Show more
An Engineer Imagines by Peter Rice
Category: Architecture
The long-awaited reissue of the autobiography of Peter Rice, acclaimed as one of the greatest structural engineers of the twentieth century. An Engineer Imagines gives a rare glimpse into the mind and philosophy of Peter Rice, a man who, in Renzo Piano's words, could design structures “like a pianist wh ...Show more
Forever House Time Honoured Australian Homes by Cameron Bruhn (Editor); Katelin Butler (Editor)
Category: Architecture
Imagine a home designed and built especially for your family to grow, evolve and create memories in over a lifetime. The Forever House celebrates 23 such dwellings through the intimate stories of the families and architects who created them.
Iconic: Modern Australian houses 1950-2000 by Karen McCartney
Category: Architecture
Karen McCartney's bestselling books on modern Australian architecture now in a collectable single best-of edition with completely updated design. 'Karen McCartney's Iconic Australian Houses books are re-imagined so cleverly in this freshly redesigned, encyclopaedic book, which brings together in one vol ...Show more
Eco Housing Design by Torence Green (Editor)
Category: Architecture
People have been talking about sustainable building methods since 1970s, and green living is much of a fad, latest fashion now. The eco-housing design is about green architecture, landscaping, improving the living space. More and more architects created green living spaces, which are aesthetic, comforta ...Show more
My Cool Kitchen: A Style Guide to Unique and Inspirational Kitchens by Jane Field-Lewis
Category: Architecture | Series: My Cool Ser.
Be inspired to create your own affordable, super-stylish kitchen, which will become the heart of your home. Nowadays, kitchens serve as the hub of the house and family life, where everyone gathers to talk and to share food, friendship and love.The kitchen of your dreams isn't always the instant model fo ...Show more
Mendelsohn by Arnt Cobbers
Category: Architecture
The work of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) is extraordinarily open-minded in its attitude to material and planning, as a result of his completely original form of architectural thinking. Mendelsohn's genius lay in the fact that he was not influenced by his predecessors; rather, his imagination sprung from ...Show more
Lo-TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson
Category: Architecture
In an era of high-tech and climate extremes, we are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. Enter Lo--TEK, a design movement rebuilding indigenous philosophy and vernacular architecture to generate sustainable, resilient infrastructure. Traveling from Peru to the Philippines, Tanzania to Iran ...Show more
By the Sea: Stunning Hotels, Homes and Restaurants by Barry Stone
Category: Architecture
By the Sea features more than 50 unique properties throughout theworld that have their footprints onsome of the world's most wonderfulbeaches. Featuring a mix of residentialhomes, hotels, restaurants and cafes,each property has been carefullyselected for its aesthetic value, history,and ambience, and th ...Show more