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 Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian CrisesBest Price: $23.08 Okay, so I havent actually read the book but Cameron Sinclair came to my school a month ago to... |  How to Build Your Own GreenhouseBest Price: $15.65 If you're operating a small or a LARGE greenhouse - this will be your "bible"......... |  Graphic Guide to Frame Construction: Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros by Pros)Best Price: $21.34 A great reference for the DIY homeowner. Lots of drawings to show you the right way to do things... |  The Solar House: Passive Heating and CoolingBest Price: $18.68 I've read many other green building books. What I liked about this one was that it really goes... |  Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details that Bring a Home to Life (Susanka)Best Price: $11.05 I bought this book because I am looking to renovate my house and I found it very useful. There... |
 Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Design Briefs)Best Price: $7.98 Grid Systems had excited me to the point that I went to the store and bought it while my Amazon... |  AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 BibleBest Price: $25.65 great reference book for the beginner or the one who usually use AutoCAD for living. This is a... |  InteriorsBest Price: $80.38 This was a required text for a design class. I found it pretty useful (in conjunction with the... |  Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great ResultsBest Price: $7.25 This book is all you need to drywall. I found it to be very comprehensive, I learned more about... |  French Room, TheBest Price: $26.40 In The French Room, best-selling author and interior designer Betty Lou Phillips explains the... |
 Stonescaping Idea Book (Taunton's Idea Book Series)Best Price: $7.45 "Walks, pathways and steps play important roles around the exterior of the home. On a... |  Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable...Best Price: $16.45 An excellent reference for those who are interested in Earth Bermed and Earth Sheltered houses.... |  Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & ColorBest Price: $12.91 Really terrific book! I highly recommend it for anyone beginning in oil paintings as well as... |  Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins (Build Like A Pro)Best Price: $7.00 This book is very well illustrated and gives some great examples. I was looking for more... |  Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual: Completely Revised and UpdatedBest Price: $15.98 I remember reading the first edition in the mid '70s, and this new edition has all the... |
 Mary Emmerling's Beach Cottages: At Home by the SeaBest Price: $17.60 Love, love love Mary Emmerling. I have ALL of her books. I always get tons of ideas form her... |  Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical EnvironmentBest Price: $16.41 Transmaterial II is a great catalog of the new materials and combinations of older ones for... |  Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & AvoidBest Price: $17.29 A lot of work went into this book. The overall presentation and layout is friendly and easy to... |  AutoCAD 2008 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))Best Price: $8.95 Much better than help in Autocad.It doesn't give you 1000 options then, lead you nowhere like... |  Introducing Revit Architecture 2009: BIM for BeginnersBest Price: $21.71 The book is a waste of time. Too much text and too little images to show step by step tasks.... |
 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for your Home, 2nd Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to)Best Price: $11.23 The title is disparaging but the contents are excellent! Anyone considering attempting to learn... |  Thinking ArchitectureBest Price: $24.00 Reading this book was like reading a long-lost secret manual of "How to become a 21... |  Landscape GraphicsBest Price: $13.96 Over the last ten years, I've recommended several landscape graphics texts to my students, and... |  Decorating Idea Book (Idea Books)Best Price: $6.36 It's great that it has a lot of picture, and just enough texts to explain. But I wish the... |  Landscaping with Stone (Home Landscaping)Best Price: $11.04 From single stone placements to walkways, patios and garden rooms, this book will provide you... |
 The Elements of ColorBest Price: $32.64 as Tellez noted previously, this isn't an easy read. fortunately, the reward is worth the... |  The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living BookBest Price: $21.90 I purchased this book based on the overwhelmingly positive reviews in Amazon.com. I was... |  Build a Smokehouse: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-81 (A Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)Best Price: $3.76 Build a Smokehouse: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-81 (A Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin) A... |  Homes & Courtyards: 28 Beautifully Designed Homes for Outdoor LivingBest Price: $22.71 OK maybe I am biased but when it comes to residential architecture they all look the same. Not... |  Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2008 & MultiMedia CDBest Price: $46.17 I've been combining my retraining in 3D modeling and learning SolidWorks specifics with the help... |
 Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus (Taschen Basic Architecture)Best Price: $7.48 I think this book is an incredible value. Wonderfully satisfying photos for the price. The... |  What Your Contractor Can't Tell You: The Essential Guide to Building and RenovatingBest Price: $12.28 This is a great book if you are going to embark on building a house. The author is very good at... |  Mid-Century Modern: Interiors, Furniture, Design Details (Conran Octopus Interiors)Best Price: $18.08 A beautiful book, I see something new each time I flip through it. It may not be the perfect... |  Atomic RanchBest Price: $15.60 Good book with lots of interior and exterior pictures of houses. Only improvement would be more... |  Buildings across TimeBest Price: $83.74 I'm one of those "stodgy" old professors (who chose this book as a text before it... |
 Working Alone: Tips & Techniques for Solo BuildingBest Price: $10.68 If you use just one or two tips from this book (and you will) it is worth the investment in time... |  Educational Administration: Theory, Research, and PracticeBest Price: $100.00 Even though it falls a bit short in a lot of practical application, Hoy & Miskel do a superb... |  The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Home Plumbing: Newly Expanded 3rd Edition (Black & Decker Complete Guide)Best Price: $15.47 This book, The Complete Guide To Home Plumbing, (although the title is certainly misleading) is... |  The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House BookBest Price: $19.95 First off, the reason for four stars instead of five. It's because the author was very narrow... |  Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John LautnerBest Price: $36.69 Between Earth and Heaven is a fabulous book about John Lautner and his work. The book arrived... |
 Design Directory of Window Treatments, TheBest Price: $37.80 Clear illustrations. I think about every type of window treatment is covered. Can help maximize... |  Interior Design Illustrated 2nd EditionBest Price: $25.26 This book is a great book. no color pictures but only scetches. This book is about scale,... |  Green Building A to Z: Understanding the Language of Green BuildingBest Price: $11.51 As a national trainer and a former national board member of the U.S. Green Building Council... |  Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American DreamBest Price: $10.52 I really enjoyed the book. I gave it a 4 and I think it is very well deserved. Reading my... |  Architectural Graphic Standards, 11th EditionBest Price: $156.04 A standard reference work on building components and design considerations - with many excellent... |
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 The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American DreamBest Price: $16.09 In _The Option of Urbanism_, Christopher Leinberger documents the history of both urban... |  Experiencing Architecture, 2nd EditionBest Price: $15.00 This book was required reading for my introductory class on architecture. I was debating... |  Casa San Miguel: Inspired Design and DecorationsBest Price: $34.36 This excellent book provides an abundance of examples for those of us who live in hot, dry... |  The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms (The Cool Hunter)Best Price: $12.75 Written by one of the world's leading trend spotters and proprietor of the widely-read... |  Hunt Country StyleBest Price: $33.62 Beautifull book. This book explores some of the "beautifull" homes in the Middleburg... |
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