Collection: Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden

This stunning book takes you on a thrilling tour through the fascinating, eclectic and stylish abodes of some of the world's best-known architects. Not only do these pages offer a rare glimpse into each architect's personal, private environment, but each uniquely designed project provides insight...

Features the homes of a range of leading architects from around the world. This stunning book takes a rare glimpse into the intriguing and unique homes of some of the world's best-known architects. How do these architects design their own private domains? How do their furnishing styles impact on ...

This book offers an insight into how contemporary architects live in the homes they have designed specifically for themselves and their family: from warehouses to apartments, from an entirely new build to a substantial renovation. In the absence of a 'client' and a formal brief, architects can be...

Architectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modelled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley alongside incisive and informa...

A survey of outstanding Australian residences that explores the role architecture can play in defining the heart of the home. Increasingly, domestic architecture has sought to enhance everyday life by providing resonant settings that reflect the human need for comfort, safety and connection. A ho...

An accessible guide to the most important ideas and developments in the history of architecture, and the people behind them.

From ancient dwellings to modern high-tech skyscrapers, discover everything there is to know about the history of architecture around the world. Covering over 6,000 years of human history, Architecture charts the most important developments in building materials, technology, and design, and the s...