Architecture: residential and domestic buildings Books

Keep current with the latest trends in interior design today with this informative and inspiring guide in the 150 Best series, packed with 500 pages of color and black-and-white photography.Discover how internationally renowned architects and designers...

Discover the best of the best in house design with this comprehensive guide in the highly successful 150 Best series, featuring hundreds of inspiring color and black-and-white photographs.150 New Best of the Best House Ideas is a stunning visual feast...

Create a cozy getaway with this fabulous compendium in the highly successful 150 Best series, packed with images, ideas, inspiration, and information on the latest trends in small space design.150 Best New Cottage and Cabin Ideas shows off a diversity...

Discover the latest innovations in tiny space design in this lush compendium in the 150 Best series, showcasing 150 full-color profiles.As the price of large residences have become increasingly out of reach for many people, aspiring home owners have...

Architect Tom Kundig is known worldwide for the originality of his work. This paperback edition of Tom Kundig: Houses, first published in 2006, collects five of his most prominent early residential projects, which remain touchstones for him today. In a...

The Giannettis’ Patina style of architecture is a design language that embraces the art of imperfection, offering a sanctuary where comfort, nature, and individuality converge in perfect harmony. In exquisite photographs and personal stories, Patina...

Timeless architect-designed places meant to last for generations and serve as both backdrop and scrapbook for lives well lived.Wade Weissmann has a passion for and commitment to creating significant and highly detailed luxury residences for clients who...

Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are good for people and communities. An inside look at 25 charming, ultra-functional, extra living spaces will inspire you to build one of your own!An Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is a smaller housing unit built on the...

Prefabrication’s time has come. Koones showcases 24 examples of environmentally friendly, cost-effective houses built wholly or partially off-site.Prefabricated housing is a practical solution since it is faster to build, less expensive than site-built...

Coastal havens designed for laid-back living.The idea of a retreat—a place removed from one’s daily stressors, a secluded haven to be enjoyed by family--is more appealing than it has been in decades. But second homes are far from a novel concept...

Patina style imbues Giannetti client homes in a variety of architectural styles.For anyone who has loved the Giannetti books about Patina Farm, this book continues the aesthetic in a variety of styles.Steve Giannetti’s architectural designs springboard...

A mythical place, the Amalfi Coast is home to dream villas within a unique landscape. Some of them have opened their doors for the first time, providing a unique opportunity to enter these exclusive homes.The Amalfi Coast has always been a sought after...

A highly anticipated monograph of recent houses by a leading California architecture and landscape firm that celebrates sophisticated modern living and represents the pinnacle of the California Dream.Residing with Nature features one-of-a-kind homes,...

In the past three decades Vincent van Duysen has become a quiet but important force in design through his minimalist yet expressive architecture. This book documents the source of his inspirations and ongoing laboratory: his own homes.Considered to be...

AD100 and Elle Décor A-List Interior Designer Oliver Furth masterfully combines bi-partisan enthusiasm for classical and contemporary influences with California cool, to create sophisticated, livable spaces with relaxed rigor, infused with color and joy...

The first book to feature the interior design of the stylish, award-winning firm RRP / Rees Roberts + Partners, led by Interior Design–hall of fame inductee Lucien Rees-Roberts.As Pilar Viladas writes in her introduction, “Rees-Roberts does not have a...

Featuring innovative home offices that are inventive, accessible, and often wonderfully serene, this book is a rich source of ideas and inspirations embracing the call to work from home!Pavilions, sheds, studios, extensions—call them what you will,...

A cutting-edge blend of contemporary design and art informs the work of architecture’s enfant terrible. This first book on his firm presents an array of immersive spaces for living and working that walk the edge of practicality and imagination.Best known...

A reassuring, idea-filled guide to decorating by interior designer Leslie Banker, enriched by advice and contributions from other prominent decorators.Interior designer Leslie Banker grew up learning the trade by her decorator mother’s side. The most...

Heralded as one of America’s most influential interior designers, Suzanne Kasler has always had her finger on the pulse of emerging home style. This completely original compendium of her firm’s new interiors is all about selectivity – a wealth of au...

Design luminary Vicente Wolf, master of a restrained, elegant, and global aesthetic, distills his decades of experience into an essential guide to decorating.In this book, celebrated AD100 designer Vicente Wolf shares the expertise he has honed over...

Susanna Salk’s latest book is a passionate primer on how to transform an empty space, whether it’s an apartment or a house, into a home. Full of beautiful interiors and pro tips from star designers, Making a House a Home is an inspiring and practical...

Architects Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran are devotees of midcentury modernism who are committed to expressing classic modern tenets in a manner perfectly suited to twenty-first-century living. In addition to restoring multiple 1960s houses, including...

English interior design is respected throughout the world, and Sims Hilditch is at the forefront of understanding how decoration and practicality can work hand in hand. Explore the firm’s many projects and see how interiors have evolved to embrace new...

Interior designer David Jimenez has lived and worked in Paris for years, where he’s celebrated for his beautifully liveable interiors. With a classic and modern style, Jimenez creates the type of chic French-influenced interiors that so many of us aspire...

A vibrant new collection of the best maximalist interiors from today’s top designers.Rooms of jewel-like colour and glorious pattern. Enchanting lacquered ceilings and geometric floors. Brilliantly massed collections of furniture, objects, and art...

Multi-award-winning interior designer Natale takes readers deeper than ever before into his intricate approach to layering – the process of curating and editing elements to create warm, welcoming interiors.Told in Natale’s refreshing, personable style...

From the moment a project is launched, the team at Ferguson & Shamamian work in close collaboration with the world’s leading decorators, landscape designers, and artisans to create contemporary houses anchored in tradition and regional character...

Homes, pool houses, and gardens in paradise by the great architect Marion Sims Wyeth – progenitor of the fabled Palm Beach style and designer of Doris Duke’s legendary Hawaiian retreat, Shangri La – are featured here in the first in-depth book to...

For this ode to summer living, noted designer and author Tricia Foley discusses how to create airy and relaxed homes, which capture the essence of the seaside.A Summer Place reflects the natural charm, understated beauty, and sophistication of the...

As an architecture photographer, Nicole England found that the shoots she enjoyed the most were the ones where dogs were present – nothing lightens the mood like a nonchalant pup. However imposing the architecture, some doggy hijinks can immediately...

Featuring projects from around the world built in the past five years by some of the most inspired architects working in the modern idiom, this up-to-date take on the dream of a home on the water will inspire homeowners, interior design and architecture...

Amidst the glass-and-steel skyscrapers and luxury apartments of modern-day Seoul, traditional Korean houses known as hanok survive and play a surprisingly important role. Inside the Korean House showcases 12 very special hanok that have been selected to...

This book documents the materiality and spaces of the Garden House by Baracco+Wright Architects through photographs by Rory Gardiner. The imagery and thoughts reflect on the dialogue of building, life and systems conceived in an ongoing project of...

This book 'deconstructs' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors atoms, labors, sources and ingredients.Though remarkably detailed, the A House...

Prefabricated housing, often associated with blighted urban landscapes and monotonous grey boxes, has evolved into an approach to housing with a wealth of aesthetic and structural possibilities. Modern methods of constructing and assembling prefabricated...

In response to economic, sociocultural and regulatory constraints,the Multiplex emerges as a type of hybrid housing thatis particular to Kuwait, yet not officially recognized by the system.It has become the informal expression of specific livingneeds...

Villa Wolf in Guben (now Gubin), built between 1925 and 1927, was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's first decidedly modern building.The residential building was destroyed at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate post-war period. The building...

A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture, and how the style and features can serve as a model for contemporary residential buildings.With incredible detail (as well as numerous architectural plans and drawings), author and architect...

During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to retreat into private shelters and to question the limits of residential typologies. The villa is an obvious example of such a shelter. It has reemerged as an object of desire, because of the urge to...

Prefabricated housing has long since ceased to mean the disfigurement of the urban landscape with monotonous grey boxes. Particularly in Central Europe and Russia, modern assembly methods and 100 years of experience in planning prefabricated buildings...

The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are...

Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in some areas and yet others are becoming cities overnight. It is in fact a laboratory for new ways of...

Neither derivatives of Western cities nor isolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps best captured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biological evolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and...

In the South of France, sited on a hill of olive trees, pinus pinea, and a vineyard, a family retreat was designed with a key mission of maintaining the vitality of the site. A small agricultural plot, the site offered the possibility of amplification...

An inspiring architectural interpretation of the concept of Shibusa, a masterclass on how to ensure seamless all-round views when building in a place of outstanding natural beauty.This instalment of the Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Masterpiece Series...

Located on a hillside meadow in rural Vermont, Bank Barn is a new residence conceptually inspired by the eponymous regional farm structures built into the banks of hills.

The visitor centres in Can Gio, south Vietnam and Bruoux en Provence in the south of France are designed by the architectural firm DE-SO and DE-SO Asia.Both buildings integrate into their respective landscape and climate. The Bruoux en Provence building...