Michael Johannes Ochs
The first comprehensive description of an old Moroccan plaster technique that creates unique, sensual, natural effects.More
Steven L. Cantor, Steven Peck
A popular design trend, green roofs make private and public buildings inviting and environmentally friendly.More
Patrick Blanc, Gregory Bruhn, Jean Nouvel, Et Al.
The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden.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
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
All trompe l’oeil painting uses light and shadow to create illusory forms and surfaces.More
Magali Delgado Yanes, Ernest Redondo Dominguez, Maria Fleming Alvarez
A step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of freehand drawing for architecture and interior design students, Freehand Drawing offers a comprehensive course for acquiring the essential architectural drawing skills.
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Raymond Lecoq
From grilles and gates to balconies and complex lock and key mechanisms, this book traces the successive styles of decorative French ironwork over its 700-year development.
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Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad
Sky and sea are the trompe l'oeil painter's favorite motifs for contemporary interiors.More
Dariush Arasteh, John Carmody, Eleanor S. Lee, Et Al.
A guide to essential window design issues, technologies, and applications for designers, specifiers, and builders.More
Marie-Jeanne Lorente
Explore the creative joy of transforming edible and nonedible plants,
trees, and grasses into exquisite paper using this friendly and
inspiring book. It offers step-by-step instructions for turning an
array of common and exotic plants from garlic skin and other kitchen
leftovers to oak leaves, wheat, and wasp nests--into artistic and
useful sheets of paper.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
Paul Laseau
Even in the computer age, freehand sketching is the designer’s most useful tool for notation, design exploration, and graphic communication.More
George Dombek, Tom Porter
This book dispels common misconceptions and gives instructions for mastering the airbrush.
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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