Architecture Books

The Building in Japan

Teijiro Takagi

The incessant work of ten of the carpenters for two months has so progressed that every pole and railing is properly planed and skillfully shaped, measured and holed so that each piece fits the other ..

The Story of the House

Orman Wesley Ketcham

The Story of the House: Being Some Suggestions in Brickwork from the Catalogue of O. W. Ketcham. The brick forms shown in Part Two are only suggestive of the various shapes in use, as the require..

The English Home from Charles I. to George IV.

J. Alfred Gotch

There are two views as to English architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, it is held that in the days of Elizabeth architectural design shows a freshness, vivacity, ..

The Art of Home Furnishing and Decoration

Frank Alvah Parsons

Man is exactly what he lives in, for environment is the strongest possible factor in man’s development. One may be so long among loud noises, bad odors, inharmonious colors and wrong arrangements of t..

The Growth of the English House

J. Alfred Gotch

The object aimed at in the following pages is to tell the story of the growth of the English house from its first appearance in a permanent form down to the time of our grandfathers, when it lost much..

Famous Colonial Houses

Paul M. Hollister

In the face of mutterings of anarchy—that Russian importation which is so much less satisfactory than the caviar—there is reassurance in these sturdy calm old mansions which are the monuments of the s..

The Useful Arts Employed in the Construction of Dwelling Houses

Anonymous

The building of houses has in all ages formed part of the employment of man as he advanced from a state of mere barbarism to one of comparative civilization. In devoting this little volume, therefore,..