architecture, domestic

A comprehensive guide to house framing that offers step-by-step instructions and expert advice for every stage of the process.

Contains over 250 black-and-white photographs and illustrations depicting Victorian-style homes built between 1840 and 1900 including Queen Anne cottages, octagon houses, and brownstones.

A collection of over 700 scale drawings of doorways, windows, staircases, moldings, and cornices of Victorian homes.

Reprints the original designs featured in Gustav Stickley's magazine "The Craftsman", which ran from 1901 to 1916 and profiled architectural drawings, photographs, and floor plans that defined the American style during that time.

Contains floor plans for homes.

Describes the different kinds of houses used in various places around the world as a result of people adapting their dwelling to their environment.