House & Home : Design & Construction

Offers an approach to construction techniques for building with bags filled with earth, and discusses the many merits of earthbag construction. more...

Price: $29.95

One of the primary concerns of owner-builders is their capacity to deal with the structural issues associated with building a straw bale house. This practical guide is written especially for the owner-builder and provides the reader with step-by-step practical instructions supported by diagrams and photographs. more...

Price: $56.00

Spurred by increases in the oldest-old population, long-term care has been reinvented in the form of attractive, homelike settings. Design for Assisted Living provides solutions to the challenges of creating these environments now and into the future. This visually rich book gives a complete overview of designing for the mentally and physically frail elderly. Research garnered from hundreds of buildings in the United States and northern Europe is presented here in design directives, case studies, and practical guidelines. more...

Price: $99.00

Presents an organised, comprehensive and easy to understand overview of the lighting design process. It covers every topic from the nature of light itself, through selecting the correct equipment, to preparing project plans and the finished design documents. Using a dummy example the student is taken through an entire project step by step where the full range of alternatives and design processes are illustrated. The easy to read conversational tone makes the novice feel at home with complex technical concepts and provides an excellent introduction to all newcomers to the subject. The book is ideal for those working in architecture, electrical engineering and interior design who will one day design lighting systems for others to build. A companion website runs alongside the book, at http://litinterior.com/, supporting distance learning projects, providing manufacturers data, calculation engines and downloadable courses for carrying our design exercises. The content of the courses will be linked directly to the book. Includes US codes and standards. more...

Price: $39.95

The authors, natural homebuilders and educators, provide detailed information on three natural plasters (earthen, lime, and gypsum), as well as natural finishes. Written in a clear, understandable style and plentifully illustrated with b&w line drawings and photographs, the book is practical and covers details from the basic components and principl more...

Price: $29.95