Architecture:

Icehouses

Written by Tim Buxbaum

Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $11.95

In the days before refrigeration, the very wealthy would use specially designed icehouses to store food from one season to the next. This book examines the design and development of icehouses, using many illustrations to explain how they worked and how they improved as scientific knowledge increased. With a detailed description... Read more >

The 1930s Home

Written by Greg Stevenson

Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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Discovering Your Old House

Written by David Iredale
Illustrated by John Barrett

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $17.95

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The Edwardian Home

Written by Yvonne Bell

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95

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Essence of Home
Timeless Elements of Design
Written by Liesl Geiger
Foreword by Richard Gluckman

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $45.00

Written for everyone who dreams of building a house, Essence of Home provides a step-by-step look at the planning process. Author and architect Liesl Geiger presents seven elements that are crucial to the success and livability of residential structures: design origins, site and scale, language and style, openings and light, spheres... Read more >

Key West
A Tropical Lifestyle
Written by Leslie Linsley

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2007
Price: $45.00

Architecture on Florida's Key West reflects the diverse and colorful nature of those who have shaped this remote island's character: the grand classical homes of sea captains from New England, the cobbled-together wooden dwellings of ships' carpenters, the humble but charming cottages of cigar makers from Cuba. Today's equally varied population... Read more >

Glass House

Written by Philip Johnson and Toshio Nakamura

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2007
Price: $95.00

The Glass House, designed by celebrated architect Philip Johnson as a personal retreat, is an icon of modern architecture. A crystalline box set in a serene New England landscape, the house is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which will open it to visitors in April 2007. Johnson... Read more >

Households

Written by Mark Robbins

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $40.00

Driving the glossy shelter magazines -- Architectural Digest, House and Garden, and many more -- is an enduring fascination with other people's lives and houses. But the pristine photographs in these publications do not represent reality. In his "Households" series, artist and architect Mark Robbins has invented the "flip side" of... Read more >

The Houses of Martha's Vineyard

Written by Keith Moskow

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2005
Price: $50.00

Each year the pristine beaches, lush pine forests, and picturesque New England towns of Martha's Vineyard draw tens of thousands of admirers to one of our country's most beautiful islands. Some of these visitors have become part-time residents, building contemporary homes alongside the traditional Victorian cottages, sea captains' mansions, and colonial... Read more >

The New American Dream
Living Well in Small Homes
Written by James Gauer
Illustrated by Catherine Tighe

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2004
Price: $45.00

Simplicity, modesty, and skillful design are the principles that have guided James Gauer both in his architecture practice and in the selection of the seventeen outstanding projects featured in this unique compilation of small homes by architects from around the country. A range of housing types and settings -- from a... Read more >

Millennium House
Peggy Deamer Studio, 2000-2001
Written by Nina Rappaport

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2004
Price: $40.00

In the academic year 2000-2001, Yale professor and New York City- based architect Peggy Deamer led two innovative courses: a focused seminar on the state of contemporary residential design and a creative studio offering house designs that drew on the discoveries of the seminar. This book combines work from both courses... Read more >

16 Houses

Written by Michael Bell

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2004
Price: $40.00

In April 1998, sixteen architecture firms were brought together to design single-family houses for the Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas, one of the country's lowest-income neighborhoods. Studio Works from Los Angeles, Lindy Roy from New York, Carlos Jimenez from Houston, and Stanley Saitowitz from San Francisco, among others, worked with the... Read more >

Festa Veneziana a Ca'toga
The Imaginative World of a Venetian Artist in Napa Valley
Written by Carlo Marchiori

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2002
Price: $35.00

Please note: there are two different book jackets with the exact same interior content.In the serene Northern California town of Calistoga, a splendid villa is fronted by stately wrought-iron gates and a small sign reading "Carlo Marchiori, Maestro d'¬?Arte." Ca'¬?toga, as the Palladian-style villa is named, is the home and workshop... Read more >

The Art Deco House

Written by Adrian Tinniswood

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2002
Price: $40.00

Modern architecture between the two world wars was a deliberate rejection of the past, causing a tension between traditional concepts of the home as warm, intimate, and comfortable and cool, futuristic visions of the house as a technological paradise.
Art Deco was an attempt to resolve these tensions. Some of the... Read more >

The Henry Clay Frick Houses
Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in the Golden Era
Written by Martha Frick Symington Sanger and Wendell Garrett

Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: December 3, 2001
Price: $85.00

Henry Clay Frick, the world-famous art collector and steel tycoon, was a towering figure in America's "gilded age" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The houses he built for himself and his family exemplify the great residences of the era, with priceless art, cultivated gardens, and interiors by the most... Read more >

On Distant Shores
Colonial Houses Around the World
Written by Ovidio Guaita

Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2000
Price: $65.00

From the era of Christopher Columbus, and even earlier, colonists left their home countries to venture to far-away lands. As they settled permanently into outposts in the farthest reaches of the globe, the colonists built residences that combined the architecture of their countries of origin with the design characteristics of their... Read more >