Sun, Wind and Light, Enduring Design & Solar House

Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies

A text for architectural design studio courses, geared to inspire design ideas and to help students understand the energy consequence of design decisions. Concentrates on the analysis of sun, wind, and light resources of a particular site and climate. Also offers design strategies organized by building groups, buildings and building parts, and provides strategies for supplementing passive systems. Includes over 200 beautifully rendered architectural illustrations.
Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies by G. Z. Brown, Mark Dekay, D. Barbhaya and Virginia Cartwright
John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design

Clearly written and profusely illustrated, Patterns of Home brings the timeless lessons of residential design to homeowners who seek inspiration and direction in the design or remodel of their homes. Patterns of Home promises to become the "design bible" for homeowners and architects.
The 10 patterns described in the book - among them, "capturing light" and "the flow through rooms" - are drawn from hundreds of principles and presented with clarity by the authors, renowned architects who have designed homes together for more than 30 years.
Insightful tours of 33 homes also bring the essential design concepts to life. This book will jump-start the design process and make the difference between a home that satisfies material requirements - and one that meets the personal needs of a home.
Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Max Jacobson
Taunton Pr; ISBN: 1561585335

Passive Solar House

This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourselfers. A formerly patented design for author James Kachadorian's Solar Slab heat exchanger is now available for the use of anyone motivated by the desire to build a house that needs a backup furnace or air conditioner rarely if ever. This is a building book for the next century. Applicable to a diversity of regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian's techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design (siting a home in harmony with nature, using windows as solar collectors, achieving year-round comfort by balancing good insulation with healthy supplies of fresh air) into practical wisdom for today's new generation of solar builders.
The Passive Solar House by James Kachadorian
Chelsea Green Publishing, 1997

A Good House Is Never Done

This follow-up to Meditations on Design shows readers how to work with their homes as living spaces that change and evolve as their lives do. Organized around six activities people conduct in their homes - sleeping, bathing, working, cooking, dining, and playing - the book suggests ideas for creating spaces that are both functional and beautiful.
A Good House Is Never Done by John Wheatman
Publisher: Conari Pr; ISBN: 1573247170

The Art and Craft of Stonescaping

This handsome book explores dry-stacked stonework, the perfect craft for any homeowner with a yard or garden. With a few basic tools, a pile of stone, and this book, any reader can create stone walls, benches. paths and patios, culverts, steps, and more. How-to color photos and fine illustrations depict every critical step, and a wealth of color photography offers plenty of inspiration.
The Art and Craft of Stonescaping: Setting and Stacking Stone by David Philip Reed, Chris Rich
Lark Books, 1998

Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast

This beautifully illustrated book features the magnificent estates built in the early part of the twentieth century by the wealthy residents of Long Island's North Shore. Many of the mansions are no longer standing, making this book a critical archive and monument to their glory. In their heyday, they were inhabited by the aristocracy of America's gilded age, among them Vanderbilts, Phipps, and Pratts. The author's evocative photographs capture the splendor of these once luxurious homes, from the houses' turrets, porticos, columns, and courtyards to their vaulted entry halls, spacious ballrooms, and vast libraries. Accompanied by histories of the estates and the families that built them, this book is a classic and evocative reminder of a bygone era and lifestyle.
This expanded reprint includes a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, and fifteen estates have been added to those included in the original edition.
Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast by Monica Randall
Rizzoli International, 2003