Название: Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings, 3rd Edition
Автор: Rudy J. Favretti, Joy Putman Favretti
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 41 Мб
Язык: английский / English

It's been more than forty years since the second edition of this landmark guide to the preservation and restoration of gardens and landscapes at historic sites was published. Since the last edition came out, author Rudy Favretti, the nation's foremost authority in this area, has worked on many significant sites including both Monticello and Mount Vernon. New to this edition are: Personal case studies from the authors' extensive experience in landscape restoration-preservation. An in-depth look complete with color images of the archaeological excavations at Bacon's Castle and Monticello in Virginia. An enlarged and comprehensive bibliography. Fully updated and added chapters based on new and emerging information in the field. Further, Landscape and Gardens for Historic Buildings covers a wide array of topics including researching and planning, maintaining restored landscapes, identifying authentic flora, and selecting the right historical period, or a series of periods to show the evolution of the historic landscape.

Название: Design Happy: Colorful Homes for the Modern Family
Автор: Betsy Wentz
Издательство: Gibbs Smith
Год: 2023
Страниц: 224
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 64.8 MB

An accessible and inspiring guide full of creative ideas and practical lessons for designing happy, family-friendly spaces. In her first book, interior designer Betsy Wentz shares 13 fabulous family homes. The book is really a practical design guide for anyone who may not want—or simply cannot afford—to hire an interior designer. The story of each home includes color studies, design lessons, and pro tips, plus plenty of practical advice for anyone who might face similar challenges.

Название: Venetian Gardens
Автор: Monty Don, Derry Moore
Издательство: BBC Books
ISBN: 1785947427
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 264
Размер: 138,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Join Monty Don, Britain's pre-eminent gardener, and acclaimed photographer Derry Moore on their historic journey through the most stunning gardens of Venice and the Veneto. Few world cities hold the romance and historical sweep of Venice. Thousands visit every year - and a mixture of crowds and climate leave it vulnerable, so much so it is often said to be in danger of sinking - but away from the usual tourist haunts around St. Mark's square are exceptional hidden treasures, some 500 gardens, many of them with fascinating stories.

Название: Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects
Автор: Donna Kacmar
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: ‎1032256222
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 204
Размер: 467,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book showcases small hotels, all located in the United States, designed by architects who use light and materials in interesting and intentional ways. The designs also deliberately connect to their local history, context, or land – in many cases all three. Both the architecture and the operations harmonize with the place, whether that is a bustling city, small town, or natural area. Many are new buildings but some are adaptive reuse projects or renovations of historic properties, extending the connectivity of the place into the future.

Название: Housing for Hope and Wellbeing
Автор: Flora Samuel
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: ‎0367469022
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 245
Размер: 15,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing system and why it is in ‘crisis’ while acting as an important reminder of how housing contributes to social value, defined as community, health, self development and identity.

Название: Building Stones of Milan and Lombardy: Volume 1: Buildings of Milan
Автор: Roberto Bugini, Luisa Folli
Издательство: CRC Press
ISBN: ‎1032420646
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 523
Размер: 18,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Milan has played an important role in the Italian country since the Roman period. This importance is reflected also by the diffusion of stone architecture: a persisting trait of Milan architecture was the use of different stones in the same building. Milan lies in the middle of the alluvial plain of the Po, far from the stone quarries; some waterways were dug out in order to supply the building stones from the surrounding territories.

Название: The History of Western Architecture (The Britannica Guide to the Visual and Performing Arts)
Автор: Natasha C. Dhillon
Издательство: Britannica Educational Pub
ISBN: 168048088X
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 244
Размер: 15,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Architecture is far more than the construction of buildings. Architects marry form and function to create structures that are particularly suited to a purpose while adding visual drama to landscapes and skylines. For millennia, architects have fashioned homes, religious shrines, governmental spaces, public facilities, and more.

Название: Classical Architecture
Автор: Andrew Ballantyne
Издательство: The Crowood Press Ltd
ISBN: 0719841658
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 314
Размер: 24,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Classical architecture has its origins in simple houses and plain little temples built by the early peoples of the Mediterranean region. From these unselfconscious beginnings, classical style found perfect expression in the Doric and Ionic temples of the Greek city-states. The excellence of classical design is such that it has endured for more than two thousand years as the ideal of Western architecture.

Название: Embrace Your Space: Organizing Ideas and Stylish Upgrades for Every Room on Any Budget
Автор: Katie Holdefehr
Издательство: Weldon Owen
Год: 2023
Страниц: 177
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 28.0 MB

Organize and style your home using home-decorating and organization expert Katie Holdefehr’s modern, chic, and simple-to-achieve design tips and tricks. Whether giving a studio apartment a makeover to maximize every inch of space for storage, creating a functional and streamlined kitchen, or revamping a bedroom into a relaxing sanctuary, home design expert Katie Holdefehr will be your personal designer throughout each step in Embrace Your Space. As an editor for top magazines and websites such as Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, Good Housekeeping, and Apartment Therapy, Katie Holdefehr honed her expertise in home design and organization writing dozens of articles and styling hundreds of tasteful, livable rooms that anyone on any budget can achieve. Featuring real homes from across the country and accompanied by gorgeous photographs, Embrace Your Space shares Katie’s tools of the trade, as well as designer-insider tips and tricks, to give every living space a Wow! effect. Also included are simple and affordable design projects for creating unique and custom-looking décor details.

Название: Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon, 2nd Edition
Автор: Owen Hopkins
Издательство: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: ‎1529420342
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 95,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up.