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Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented. Being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates: Containing A great Variety of Magnificent Buildings accurately Described; AS Also, Several of a Smaller Kind elegantly Design'd, with all necessary Offices, of great Strength, easy Construction, and graceful Appearance. Scales are annexed, and regular Estimates are made for each Design. The Whole carefully calculated by the Great Square; With Instructions to Workmen, &c. in several Pages of Letter-Press. Intended as an Improvement of what has been published of that Sort. Correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, Architects. Published according to Act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1752]- Books
Planning and design of library buildings / Godfrey Thompson.
Thompson, Godfrey, 1921-Date: 1989- E-journals
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Architecture + design
Date: [1984]-- Books
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Sketches in architecture. Containing plans and elevations of cottages villas and other useful buildings with characterstic scenery. By John Soane architect to the Bank of England and member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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How to plan a house : a book for all about to build / by George Gordon Samson.
Samson, George Gordon.Date: 1914- Books
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Grotesque architecture, or Rural amusement consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, For huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavillions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them. By William Wright, architect,
Wrighte, William.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, ... on sixty copper plates with full instructions or workmen ... by Willm. & Jno Halfpenny ... Divided into four parts.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1752]- Books
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Grotesque architecture, or rural amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavillions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green Houses, &c. Many of which may be executed With Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees. The whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on Copper Plates, with Scales to each. to which is added, a full explanation, in letter press, and the true method of executing them. By William Wrighte, architect.
Wrighte, William.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs; for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates; with Plans of the Offices belonging to each Design, Distributed with a strict Attention to Convenience, Elegance and Economy. Engraved on thirty-two plates, from designs drawn by J. Miller, Architect.
Miller, J. (John) (Architect)Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Design of dwellings : Report of the Design of dwellings subcommittee of the Central housing advisory committee appointed by the minister of health and Report of a study group of the Ministry of town and country planning on site planning and layout in relation to housing.
Great Britain. Central Housing Advisory Committee.Date: 1944- Books
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Ferme ornée; or rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. Consisting Of Fences, Paddock Houses, A Bath, A Dog-Kennel, Pavilions, Farm-Yards, Fishing-Houses, Sporting-Boxes, Shooting-Lodges, Single And Double Cottages, &c. Calculated for landscape and picturesque effects. Engraved on thirty-eight plates. With Appropriate Scenery, Plans, and Explanations. By John Plaw, Architect.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Decorations for parks and gardens. Designed for gates, garden seats, alcoves, temples, baths, entrance gates, lodges, facades, prospects for towers Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c. &c. also A Hot House & Hot Wall: with plans & scales on 55 plates.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Oikidia, or nutshells: being ichnographic distributions for small villas; chiefly upon œconomical principles. In seven classes. With occasional remarks. By Jose MacPacke, a bricklayer's labourer. Part the first, containing twelve designs.
Peacock, James, 1738?-1814.Date: 1785- Digital Images
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First floor plan of the home of Mr. le Marquis de Ville -
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The third edition, with four additional designs of Useful architecture; being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, Architect and Carpenter, in twenty-five new designs, with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns, with their respective offices, &c. of various Dimensions, at the most moderate Expence, the Largest not exceeding Five Hundred Pounds, and the Smallest under One Hundred Pounds. As will evidently appear By their several Dimensions and Estimates Particularly set forth with Respect both to Brick and Stone, Adapted to the usual Measurement of Great Britain and Ireland Together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only, with Estimates annext in like Manner. The four designs added, are for bridges, which in Rural Situations are generally necessary and always pleasing, being suited to small Pieces of Water, Brooks, &c. and the chief Ornament where Strength with Beauty is needful. The Whole intended as an Improvement of what has hitherto been given on that Subject, and rendered both Practicable and Beneficial to all concerned in Building.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
Sketches for cottages and other buildings : designed to be constructed in the patent cement slab system of W. H. Lascelles / Drawn by Maurice B. Adams.
Shaw, Richard Norman, 1831-1912.Date: 1878- Books
Patient-focused architecture for health care : a study for Arts for Health / by Peter Scher.
Scher, Peter, 1880-1953.Date: 1996- Books
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Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c. on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen also a near estimate of the charge and hints where proper to be erected the whole invented & drawn by Willm. &Inn. halfpenny, architects. The 3d. edition. With the addition of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese & Indian temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying off the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: 1755- Books
Modern housing in town and country / illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages, also plans and descriptions of the cheap cottage exhibition, by James Cornes.
Cornes, James.Date: 1905- Books
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Ideal homes for the people : being a statement of the difficulties met with in building for the working classes in rural districts and particulars of a new, substantial and cheap form of construction which will be found to constitute a remedy / by George E. Clare, Walter G. Ross.
Clare, George E. (George Edward), 1868-Date: [approximately 1900]- Books
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Plans, elevations and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples and other garden buildings; executed In The Counties Of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham, and York. By James Paine, Architect, One of the Directors of the Society of Artists of Great-Britain. Part the first. Illustrated by seventy-four large folio plates.
Paine, James, 1717?-1789.Date: M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]- Books
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Plans, elevations, sections, and other ornaments of the Mansion-House, belonging to the corporation of Doncaster. By James Paine.
Paine, James, 1717?-1789.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Designs of Inigo Jones and others published by I: Ware.
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.Date: 1733]- Books
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The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates; Plans of the Offices belonging to each Design, Distributed with a strict Attention to Convenience, Elegance, and Economy. Engraved on thirty-two plates, from designs drawn by J. Miller, Architect.
Miller, J. (John) (Architect)Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Familiar architecture; consisting of original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats; ... To which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks. By Thomas Rawlins, ...
Rawlins, Thomas.Date: 1768