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The Sustainable House Handbook: How to Plan and Build an Affordable, Energy- and Water-Efficient Home for the Future by Josh Byrne
$45.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
The Sustainable House Handbook is your comprehensive guide to building an affordable, eco-friendly and energy- plus water-efficient green home for the future. In this book, sustainability expert and Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne takes takes readers through the process of planning a 10-Star ra ...Show more
The Short Story of Architecture - A Pocket Guide to Key Styles, Buildings, Elements & Materials by Susie Hodge
$35.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Architecture is a new and innovative guide to the subject of architecture that explores 50 key buildings, from the Great Pyramids to high-tech, sustainable skyscrapers. Accessible and concise, the book links the 50 key works to the most important architectural materials, elements and ...Show more
Living Big in a Tiny House by Bryce Langston
$19.00 NZD
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: near fine
Many of us dream of having a life free from rent, mortgages and utility bills and for some this dream is being achieved by living in a tiny house. Small, compact buildings offer an appealing way to live more sustainably, providing smart, energy-efficient housing at low cost; a route to escaping the fina ...Show more
Living in the Mountains: Contemporary Houses in the Mountains by Phaidon Phaidon Editors
$70.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
A breathtaking survey of contemporary homes, each with a deep connection to the landscapes and vistas of the mountains Whether snow-capped, rocky, or covered with verdant forest, the sublime wilderness of mountains has inspired humans for millennia. Offering respite from urban living and a profound con ...Show more
Measure and Construction of the Japanese House: 250 Plans and Sketches plus illustrations of joinery by Heino Engel
$28.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
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 Heino Engel describes everything from room funct ...Show more
The Homes We Build by Jonas, Anne
$35.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
Adapting themselves to all kinds of landscapes and climates, humans have used their architectural ingeniousness to build amazing dwellings: find them here, from houses on stilts and igloos, to tree houses and skyscrapers.
California Moderne and the Mid-Century Dream - The Architecture of Edward H. Fickett by Richard Rapaport
$49.00 NZD
Category: Sale Book
A dazzling presentation of the mid-century modern California style, offering a fresh perspective on the work of this influential yet widely unknown figure.
An Underground Guide to Sewers by Stephen Halliday
$45.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This ex ...Show more
Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific by Charmaine Chan
$80.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade, and the use of space. With centuries of tradition as inspiration, contemporary architects are now realizing courtyard living afresh. This lavish survey of twenty-five residences across the Asia-Pacific reg ...Show more
Model City Pyongyang by Cristiano Bianchi; Kristina Drapic
$45.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
Many 'model' cities, both imagined and physical, have existed throughout history; from the ideal cities of the Renaissance, Urbino, Pienza and Ferrara, to modernist utopias, such as Brasília or Chandigarh. North Korea's Pyongyang, however, is arguably unique. Entirely rebuilt following the Korean War (1 ...Show more
Northern Comfort - The Nordic Art of Creative Living by Gestalten (Editor); Austin Sailsbury (Editor)
$49.00 NZD
Category: Sale Book
The Northern art of life has become a role model for a meaningful work-life balance. Entrepreneurs, designers, and artists are the central figures who influence every- thing from crime fiction to interior design and furniture, to outdoors activities and attitudes toward nature, to craft beer and fashion ...Show more
Prefab Architecture by KONEMANN
$30.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
Dieser Band zeigt herausragende Beispiele von Privathäusern in Fertigbauweise. Es wird deutlich, dass beim Fertighaus ein besserer Überblick über den Bauprozess, eine Reduzierung der Kosten und eine bessere Anpassung an die Umgebung erreicht werden kann. Mit 500 Illustrationen, Plänen und Zeichnungen ze ...Show more
