emotional ROOMS the sensual interiors of benjamin noriega-ortiz Named by House Beautiful as one of America's Most Brilliant Decorators for ten consecutive years, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz is recognized as one of the most stylish and influential of today's interior designers. His sensuous, glamorous, and ... more »

A Story in Stones explores the relationship between Portugal and Ethiopia during the 16th and 17th centuries from a unique perspective. Through historical research and many years of fieldwork J.J. Hespeler-Boultbee reveals Portugal's early Renaissance contact within the Ethiopian Highlands using a description ... more »

This E. & F. N. Spon title is now distributed by Routledge in the US and Canada more »

Design, Implement, and Audit the Most Energy-Efficient,Cost-Effective Solar Power Systems for Any Type of Building! Solar Power in Building Design is a complete guide to designing, implementing, and auditing energy-efficient, cost-effective solar power systems for residential, commercial, and industrial ... more »

Buildings are responsible for 50% of C02 emissions and their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or more ecologically and being able to assemble the social resources to do so requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There ... more »

From shopping in London to squatting in Amsterdam, and from Times Square in New York to downtown Sao Paulo, Strangely Familiar explores the vitality and variety of cities and architecture, presenting intriguingly unexpected perspectives on life in cities worldwide. Emphasizing a new angle on architecture ... more »

A comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities. The book covers all types of airport terminals found around the world and highlights the environmental and techinical issues that the design teams have to address. Contemporary examples are critically reviewed ... more »

This book, by a scientist, is not a textbook on English grammar: nor is it just one more book on how to write a technical report, or a thesis, or a paper for publication. It is about all the ways in which writing is important to scientists and engineers. more »

Book Fire in the Skyscraper An analysis of why and how the WTC Towers collapsed. By Arthur Scheuerman Retired Battalion Chief FDNY more »

From the PREFATORY: This work owes its appearance to the absence of any cheap and popular book on the subject of Rural Architecture, exclusively intended for the farming or agricultural interest of the United States. Why it is, that nothing of the kind has been heretofore attempted for the chief benefit ... more »

... edifices, though doubtless much inferior to those at Rome, in their municipal towns and cities. The Christian religion was also early introduced,3-* but for a time its progress was slow; nor was it till the conversion of Constantine, in the fourth century, that it was openly tolerated by the state, ... more »

Life of the Florentine Architect, Leon Batista Alberti [Born 1404--died 1472] Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari From the edition in six volumes translated by Mrs. Jonathan Foster London: George Bell and Sons, 1886 more »