Author: Paul Oliver
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: dwellings
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-02-04
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0714842028
ISBN-13: 9780714842028

The architecture of ordinary people represents more than ninety per cent of the world’s buildings, including some 800 million homes. Dwellings is about the types and forms of vernacular houses around the world. It documents the form of traditional buildings that are self-built by their owner-occupiers or built by members of a community, recording the means of construction and decoration of the house in many different cultures. First published by Phaidon in 1987, Dwellings, in its new updated, revised and expanded format, takes into account new scholarship in the field, including the auth

Author: Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: dwellings, old, china
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1999-11
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0824822145
ISBN-13: 9780824822149

China’s Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China’s folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China’s Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (UH Press, 1999), together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Both books draw on the author’s thirty years of fieldwork and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages.

Author: Cheryl Kent
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: hovey, david, architecture, dwellings, nature
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-11-27
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0847826457
ISBN-13: 9780847826452

David Hovey is building some of the best modernist houses in the world, and the world is starting to notice. Hovey has made a name for himself as the torchbearer for modern residential design, a designation he shares with a growing number of architects who’ve returned to pure modernism. His houses merge into the landscapes in which they’re situated, and with names like Cloud Chaser and Rain Maker, their ties to the land and climate are made clear. Hovey picks up where Frank Lloyd Wright left off, forging ahead with explorations of simple materials, rectilinear geometries, and struc

Author: .
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: safety, dwellings, electrical, document, regulations, approved, building
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 2006-03
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0117036536
ISBN-13: 9780117036536

Author: Stephen Sills/James Huniford
Publisher: Bulfinch
Keywords: style, living, dwellings
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-09
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821228463
ISBN-13: 9780821228463

Author:
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: fuel, power, new, dwellings, conservation, l1a, regulations, approved, document, building
Number of Pages: 25
Published: 2006-03
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0117036463
ISBN-13: 9780117036468

Author: International Code Council
Publisher: ICC (distributed by Cengage Learning)
Keywords: soft, cover, version, dwellings, family, residential, code, one, international
Number of Pages: 868
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $88.00
ISBN-10: 1580017274
ISBN-13: 9781580017275

This comprehensive code for homebuilding combines building, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas, energy, and electrical provisions into a single resource. The 2009 International Residential Code® For One- and Two- Family Dwellings uses these provisions to provide detailed insight into the construction of one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses up to three stories high. Using foundational principles that facilitate the use of new materials and building designs to guide the content, this reference guide also establishes minimum regulations using prescriptive provisions.