Residential & Domestic Buildings Books

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1. Vernacular Architecture of West Africa

   By Jean-Paul Bourdier, Trinh T. Minh-ha

   The living environments of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of ideas and construction practices which contradict the over-played image of primitive huts that have come to represent rural Africa. Each house or group of houses is conceived not only to shelter the family but also to...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58543-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Precedents in Zero-Energy Design: Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon

   By Michael Zaretsky

   ‘Michael Zaretsky’s Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book … it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology – and renewable energy systems alone can’t solve the problems we face’ John D. Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture and ecoMOD Project...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-77875-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Housing Design Handbook: A Guide to Good Practice

   By David Levitt

   How well have architects succeeded in building housing and what lessons can be learned from their triumphs and failures? The Housing Design Handbook will give you a complete understanding of what makes successful housing design. Through the analysis of work by Levitt Bernstein and a wide range of...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-49150-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings, 2nd Edition

   By David Highfield, Christopher Gorse

   A detailed guide to the technical aspects of refurbishing and upgrading buildings, this book provides solutions to a range of problems, challenges and issues and is essential reading for all students studying building refurbishment at all levels. Includes: existing floor and wall...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-44124-7 | Paperback (Spon Press)
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   Courtyard Housing: Past, Present and Future

   Edited by Brian Edwards, Magda Sibley, Mohammad Hakmi, Peter Land

   Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other...

   2005 | 978-0-415-26272-9 | Hardback (Taylor & Francis)
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   Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design

   By Rob Imrie

   Considering the interrelationships between disability and housing design with a focus on the role of policy in addressing the housing needs of disabled people, this book sets out some of the broader debates about the nature of housing, quality and design. In what ways are domestic design and...

   2005 | 978-0-415-31892-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings

   By David Highfield

   Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings provides a detailed insight into a wide range of technical problems met during the refurbishment and upgrading of buildings, suggesting solutions that can be used to overcome them. The book identifies and describes specific refurbishment problems, including...

   2000 | 978-0-419-23160-8 | Hardback (Taylor & Francis)

8. The Place of Home: English domestic environments, 1914-2000

   By Alison Ravetz, Professor Alison Ravetz, R. Turkington

   A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses on the various influences bearing on the development of domestic space since 1914 and covers both design and housing policy. Current debates from participation to...

   1995 | 978-0-419-17980-1 | Hardback (Routledge)