Название: The Smart House
Автор: James Grayson Trulove
Издательство: Harper Design
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Размер: 140 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Divided into three sections, The Smart House illustrates how technology is changing our homes. The book looks at three areas:

Smart Technology, which examines five aspects of technology and how it's being integrated throughout the house: lighting design and window treatments; audio and video entertainment; voice and data management; security and access; and environmental controls and energy management.

Название: Dense + Green: Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture
Автор: Thomas Schr?pfer
Издательство: Birkhauser
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 119 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Dense + Green: Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture explores innovations in architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components, such as sky terraces, green facades, and vertical parks, in high-density buildings. In-depth case studies of various building types are presented with analytical drawings prepared exclusively for this book. International experts provide information on the technical and ecological aspects as well as the landscape and urban design implications of the dense and green paradigm.

Название: Atomic Ranch: Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes
Автор: Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown
Издательство: Gibbs Smith
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Atomic Ranch is an in-depth exploration of post-World War II residential architecture in America. Mid-century ranches (1946-1970) range from the decidedly modern gable-roofed Joseph Eichler tracts in the San Francisco Bay area and butterfly wing houses in Palm Springs, Florida, to the unassuming brick or stucco L-shaped ranches and split-levels so common throughout the United States. Authors Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown, founders and publishers of the popular quarterly Atomic Ranch magazine, extol the virtues of the tract, split-level, rambler home and its many unique qualities: private front facades, open floor plans, secluded bedroom wings, walls of glass, and an easy-living lifestyle.

Название: Restoration House: Creating a Space That Gives Life and Connection to All Who Enter
Автор: Kennesha Buycks
Издательство: Zondervan
Год: 240
Формат: epub
Страниц: 240
Размер: 25 Mb
Язык: English

Rediscover the heart of your home and your story.
Home is meant to be a place to belong. A place to gather and connect. A place of beauty. A place to restore your soul. Creating a restored home—the kind that you and your loved ones want to return to again and again—is as much about making everyone who enters feel cared for and comfortable as it is about creating a beautiful space.
In Restoration House, home decor and lifestyle guide Kennesha Buycks of Restoration House blog shows you how to embrace your home and your story as you create mindful spaces that give life to you, your loved ones, and all who enter.

Название: Residential Landscape
Автор: Sophia Song, Chloe Fang, Rebecca Li, Arthur Gao
Издательство: Liaoning Science & Technology Publishing House
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Размер: 60 Мб
Язык: English, Chinees

Residential Landscape includes 47 typical landscape design projects of villa and apartment. Each project is a great illustration of the latest development of landscape architecture, and shows the features of many aspects of residential landscape. Living a poetic life is the theme of this book. Today, as the global urbanisation is accelerating dramatically, people's desires for nature, ecology and comfort seem to be unaffordable. Residential Landscape proposes various feasible implementations for these issues.

Название: Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture, 3rd Edition
Автор: Gernot Minke
Издательство: Birkhaeuser
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English

For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal. The second and revised edition of this handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical characteristics are described in informed and knowledgeable detail. The author's presentation reflects the rich and varied experiences gained over thirty years of building earth structures all over the world. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of earth architecture.

Название: Chinese Contemporary Architecture
Автор: Kai Cui
Издательство: Design Media Publishing
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 27 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Sixteen outstanding contemporary Chinese architects and teams from a state-owned large-scale design firm and privately owned design firms and individual studios, are presented in this book. Contemporary Chinese architectural languages and form, which connect history and today, with a fusion of Chinese and Western cultures and elements, are presented. It records the developing road of contemporary architecture in China with continuous effort by Chinese architects.

Название: The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Training and Shaping Trees and Shrubs
Автор: Jake Hobson
Издательство: Timber Press
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Nothing brings a touch of artistry to the garden like ornamental pruning, and a series of deliberate cuts can create landscapes and evoke faraway places. All that's needed to recreate the effect in the garden are a sharp pair of pruners, some imagination, and the instruction found in The Art of Creative Pruning. Drawing on both eastern and western styles, author Jake Hobson moves beyond the traditional lollipops and animals and teaches a wholly new approach to ornamental pruning that appeals to modern sensibilities.

Название: Современная архитектура Японии. Традиции восприятия пространства
Автор: Нина Коновалова
Язык: русский
Издательство: Нестор-История
Год: 2017
Страниц: 360 стр. 85 иллюстраций
Формат: pdf
Размер: 29,7 Мб

Япония отличается особым отношением к традиционным ценностям своей культуры. Понимание механизмов актуализации и развития традиций, которыми пользуется Япония, может открыть новые способы сохранения устойчивости культуры, что становится в настоящее время все более актуальной проблемой для многих стран мира…

Название: The Japanese Bath
Автор: Bruce Smith and Yoshiko Yamamoto
Издательство: Gibbs Smith Publisher
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Размер: 53 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In the West, a bath is a place one goes to cleanse the body. In Japan, one goes there to cleanse the soul. Bathing in Japan is about much more than cleanliness: it is about family and community. It is about being alone and contemplative, time to watch the moon rise above the garden. Along with sixty full-color illustrations of the light and airy baths themselves, The Japanese Bath, delves into the aesthetic of bathing Japanese style and the innate beauty of the steps surrounding the process. The authors explain how to create a Japanese bath in your own home. A Zen meditation, the Japanese bath, indeed, cleanses the soul, and one emerges refreshed, renewed, and serene.