Author: John ShandPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781933415154
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
More than 250 photographs of the work nearly 40 leading designers in Phoenix, Tucson, Scottsdale, and New Mexico.
Spectacular Homes of the Southwest
Author: John ShandPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781933415154
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
More than 250 photographs of the work nearly 40 leading designers in Phoenix, Tucson, Scottsdale, and New Mexico.
Spectacular Homes of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Brian CarabetPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780974574745
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
More than 250 photographs of nearly 40 leading designers in Washington and Oregon.
Facing Southwest
Author: Chris WilsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393730678
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Facing Southwest is a colourful exploration of the life and work of Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem. Regarded as the leading southwest architect of his time, John Gaw Meem brought the Santa Fe style to its peak in the 1920s and 1930s. With original drawings, floor plans and stunning colour photographs, this book explores Meem's signature design elements and numerous examples of his unique Spanish- and Pueblo-influenced residences. It includes 176 colour and 100 black-and-white illustrations.
Southwest Sunrise
Author: Nikki GrimesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547600837
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
From Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Nikki Grimes and highly-acclaimed illustrator Wendell Minor comes a stunning picture book about the beauty of the natural world and finding a new place to call home. The beauty of the natural world is just waiting to be discovered . . . When Jayden touches down in New Mexico, he's uncertain how this place could ever be home. But if he takes a walk outside, he just might find something glorious. Flowers in bright shades . . . Birds and lizards and turtles, all with a story to tell . . . Red rock pillars towering in the distance . . . Turquoise sky as far as the eye can see . . . Perhaps this place could be home after all. Gorgeously poetic and visually stunning, this story from acclaimed creators Nikki Grimes and Wendell Minor celebrates the beauty of the Southwest as a young boy sees it for the very first time. Acclaim for One Last Word A Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Winner A New York Times Editor's Choice
Spectacular Vernacular
Author: Jean-Louis BourgeoisPublisher: Aperture
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In these images, white arabesques dance on red walls, and abacus-like mud colonnades shield farmers from sun and wind; mud is "twisted" into playful columns, sculpted into ornate facade relief, and massed into lofty towers of majestic mosques. This edition's new afterword discusses adobe politics in New Mexico, and illustrates the authors' own adobe home.
Strawbale Home Plans
Author: Wayne J. BinghamPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586858612
Category : Straw bale houses
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Strawbale Home Plans is a meditative and conscientious exploration of the innumerable reasons to consider straw bale as a viable building material. Environmentally friendly, super insulative, economical, and natural, straw bale can be used to build everything from garden walls and shed roofs to small homes. The vibrant pages of this practical guide are filled with rich photos of organic, fluid, undulating structures pulsating with subtle creativity. Indeed at once a pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic guidebook, this handbook provides food for the mind and soul.
American Lumberman
Author: Trailer Trash
Author: Bob MoorePublisher: Route Sixty-Six Publishing
ISBN: 9780970142320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Discover the world of abandoned and derelict trailers as photographed by Bob Moore. Each page is a nostalgic treasure with old advertising, mementoes, and photos of the once proud homes of those who may have had a touch of the gypsy in their soul. Profusely illustrated, Trailer Trash is a must have for anyone who ever looked longingly at one of these steel or aluminum homes on wheels during the 1940s or 1950s.
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