Author: Raymon H. HarrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Demonstration of New Techniques for Low-cost Small Home Construction
Author: Raymon H. HarrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Building Materials and Structures Report
Author: United States. National Bureau of StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building materials
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Housing Research
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
Basic Construction Techniques for Houses and Small Buildings Simply Explained
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval PersonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
An illustrated guide to the materials, tools, and methods used in exterior and interior construction.
Housing and Planning References
Author: Reducing Home Building Costs with OVE Design and Construction
Author: NAHB Research FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Empire's Nature
Author: Amy R. W. MeyersPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080783856X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.
Reducing Home Building Costs with OVE Design and Construction
Author: Grow Home
Author: Avi FriedmanPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773521681
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In The Grow Home, Avi Friedman, winner of the United Nations World Habitat Award and internationally acclaimed architect, recounts the genesis and development of his innovative project in. Like the auto industry's approach to the economy car, Friedman's Grow Home gives people what they need in a house at an affordable price - a quality product that allows both the perimeter and interior of a house to be expanded and changed to fit the space needs and budget of its owners. Frills are extra. With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and lifestyle changes, the traditional family - working father, stay-at-home mother, two to three children - is no longer the norm and the need for smaller homes at moderate cost has skyrocketed. The first prototype of the Grow Home was built on the campus of McGill University in 1990 and more than one thousand units were built across North America and Europe in the first year alone. In this illustrated guide, Friedman describes the background, conception, and construction of these modest (14' x 36') homes. He details their construction for prospective owners, builders, and architects, showing how past and contemporary precedents were transformed and how the first versions were adapted by the building industry. Visits to completed Grow Homes shed light on why such homes were purchased and the process by which they "grew." Friedman also shows how the design has been adapted for prefabrication to meet the needs of the developing world. He describes the contribution that small-unit design makes to saving valuable natural resources and shares his experiences in planning communities based on the Grow Home. The Grow Home reveals the development and history of a concept that revolutionizes the home and building industry, has been translated into over 10,000 housing units and has received, among many accolades, the United Nations World Habitat Award