Presents floor plans, section drawings, elevations, and perspectives for seventy-five small houses of various styles, most of which incorporate some energy-saving feature, selected from several competitions among architects and designers.

Storey Publishing's newest book on small homes, Small House Designs, represents the top choices in Storey's international juried competition of plans for small modern homes. The Criteria: affordable, aesthetically pleasing, functional, environmentally conscious, and innovative. The Results: geographic and stylistic diversity to inspire homeowners, buyers, builders, and designers of all kinds. Each design includes an exterior drawing, floor plan,...

This book examines the details of twelve actual barns, ranging in complexity from the simplest sun shed to an eight horse barn with a spacious home overhead.

"When a Muslim architect wins a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial, a city of eleven million people takes notice. Waldman, a former bureau chief for the New York Times, explores a diversity of viewpoints around this fictional event, bringing in politicians, businessmen, journalists, activists, and normal people whose lives--whether by happenstance, choice, or even due to their country of origin--get caught up in the controversy. Incredibly,...

At the end of the 19th century carpenter and architect George Barber began publishing his residential designs in inexpensive illustrated catalogs. These were not the first mail order house plans, but the first to give customers an opportunity to helf design thier house. This is a reprint of some of those house designs and information.