Alexander Garvin
Can planners—or anyone—improve a neighborhood, city, suburb, or region? Planning does work: this book explains how.More
Alejandro Bahamón, Maria Camila Sanjinés
How someone else’s waste can become the next designer’s building material.More
Michael Johannes Ochs
The first comprehensive description of an old Moroccan plaster technique that creates unique, sensual, natural effects.More
C. Howard Walker, Richard Sammons
With the revival of interest in traditional design, practitioners,
students, and historians have begun to study and use the vocabulary of
forms that so enriched our architectural heritage.More
Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad
From a countryside panorama in a windowless room to a faux mosaic wall,
an intricately painted Oriental carpet to a soaring cathedral dome in a
single-story room, Trompe l’oeil painting offers an art form ideal for
contemporary interiors, adding color and aesthetic atmosphere and
responding to specific architectural needs and situations.More
Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad
All trompe l’oeil painting uses light and shadow to create illusory forms and surfaces.More
Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad
For centuries Italy has exuded a mythical aura: in no other country do
antiquity and modernity, history, art, landscape, and the graceful art
of living seem to merge and coexist with such simple elegance as in
this land steeped in over two millennia of cultural heritage.More
Yannick Guegan
From the coauthor of the best-selling Handbook of Painted Decoration comes this advanced exploration of trompe l’oeil art and technique.More
Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad
Sky and sea are the trompe l'oeil painter's favorite motifs for contemporary interiors.More
Bridgette Meinhold
Disaster-proof, environmentally friendly housing solutions for a changing climate.More
Patrick Blanc
Revised and Updated
Patrick Blanc, botanist and artist, is world famous as the inventor of the Vertical Garden. This new, updated edition of his book, The Vertical Garden, includes his latest achievements and projects, which are bolder than ever.More
Paul Laseau
A step-by-step course in creating watercolor sketches.More
John Carmody, Stephen Selkowitz, Eleanor S. Lee, Et Al.
A guide to essential window design issues, technologies, and applications for designers, specifiers, and builders.More