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Technique

1. The Log Home Maintenance Guide: A Field Guide for Identifying, Preventing, and Solving Problems

   Gary Schroeder

   Preventing problems and dealing with them when they occur.More

2. The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities

   Alexander Garvin

   Can planners—or anyone—improve a neighborhood, city, suburb, or region? Planning does work: this book explains how.More

3. Watercolor Sketching: An Introduction

   Paul Laseau

   A step-by-step course in creating watercolor sketches.More

4. Gardening Vertically: 24 Ideas for Creating Your Own Green Walls

   Noémie Vialard, Patrick Blanc

   A recipe book for gardeners, from Patrick Blanc's innovative Green Wall to new techniques for domestic gardens.More

5. Planning and Community Development: A Guide for the 21st Century

   Norman Tyler, Robert M. Ward

   An ideal introduction to community planning for students, planners, local officials, community leaders, and citizens.More

6. Tadelakt

   Michael Johannes Ochs

   The first comprehensive description of an old Moroccan plaster technique that creates unique, sensual, natural effects.More

7. Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts

   Robert Twombly

   The most influential, provocative, and enduring writings of the American master are gathered in this anthology.More

8. The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls

   Kevin Gardner

   A master stonemason imparts the fundamentals of building traditional New England-style dry stone walls.More

9. Theory of Mouldings

   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

10. Trompe L'Oeil: Grisaille: Architecture & Drapery

    Martin Benad, Ursula E. Benad

    All trompe l’oeil painting uses light and shadow to create illusory forms and surfaces.More

11. The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature

    Peter Forbes

    A riveting account of the unexpected relationship between nature and scientific design.More

12. Classic French Wrought Iron: Twelfth–Nineteenth Century

    Raymond Lecoq, Gregory Bruhn

    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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13. The Art of Papermaking with Plants

    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

14. Freehand Sketching

    Paul Laseau

    Even in the computer age, freehand sketching is the designer’s most useful tool for notation, design exploration, and graphic communication.More

15. Airbrush Illustration for Architecture

    George Dombek, Tom Porter

    This book dispels common misconceptions and gives instructions for mastering the airbrush.
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