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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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Familiar architecture; or, original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen; parsonages; summer retreats; Banqueting-Rooms; and Churches: With Plans, Sections, &c. To which is added, the masonry of semicircular and elliptical arches; with practical remarks. By Thomas Rawlins, Architect. On fifty-one copper plates.
Rawlins, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: Beginning With The Farm House, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. With a reference and explanation, in letter-press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, architect. The whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates, by Isaac Taylor.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: 1770- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. With a Reference and Explanation, in Letter-Press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, architect. The whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates, by Isaac Taylor.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: 1767- Books
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Twelve beautiful designs for farm-houses, with their proper offices, and estimates of the whole ... By William Halfpenny, ...
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: 1774- Books
Utilization of space in dwellings / report presented by the Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Europe, prepared by M. B. Blackshaw in collaboration with P. Blokhine and M. Lebegge in consultation with the International Union of Architects.
Blackshaw, M. B.Date: 1959- 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, 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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Demonstration houses : a short account of the demonstration houses & flats erected at Northolt / by the Ministry of Works.
Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and Works.Date: [1944]- 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- Books
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A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses. Together with Offices and Out-Buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several Uses and Situations required. As Also An Estimate of each by the great Square. Prefix'd to these Are ten different Sorts of Piers, with Gates of various Compositions suitable to the same; intended for Entrances to Courts, Gardens, &c. As Also New Architectonic Rules for drawing the Members, in all Kinds and Proportions of the Orders. And to them are also added A Perspective View of the sinking Pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining Arches; and a Method proposed by Trusses &c. to take off ? of the Weight, or Abutment and Pressure now on the Pier, and discharge it as set forth on the Plate. The whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with Explanations thereto in common Press-Work. Neatly engraved, and design'd by William Halfpenny, Architect.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: 1749- Books
Home and environment / [Walter Segal].
Segal, Walter, -1985.Date: 1953- 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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A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With A great Variety of Sections of rooms; from a common Room, to the most grand and magnificent. their decorations, viz. Bases, Surbases, Architraves, Freezes, and Cornices, properly inriched with Foliages, Frets and Flowers, in a New and Grand Taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for Practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges, Extending from Twenty Feet to Two Hundred and Twenty, in One Arch. Likewise some Screens and Pavilions. In Two Volumes. Each containing Sixty Plates, curiously engraved on Copper. By Abraha Swan, Architect. ...
Swan, Abraham.Date: M.D.CCLVII. [1757]- 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 pavilions, 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 Wrighte, architect.
Wrighte, William.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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The rudiments of architecture: or, the young workman's instructor. In two parts. Part First, Containing The five Orders of Columns entire, with Frontispieces, Doors, Windows, Porticoes, Intercolumniations, and Arcades, suited to each; Rustic Doors and Windows; Block and Cantaliver Cornices; Rustic; Quoins; the manner of constructing Brick and Stone-Arches; Centuring for Groins and Vaulting; Stairs, Twisted Rails, Roofs and Domes; Inspectional Scales, Tables, &c. Directions for Drawing Plans and Elevations with Indian Ink: Likewise, the French and Spanish Orders. Part Second, Containing Geometry; the Mensuration of Solids and Supersicies; Plain Trigonometry, and Surveying of Land. With twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, the builder's dictionary : Intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend Teachers.
Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm-house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. Engraved on seventy copper-plates, with reference and explanation, in letter-press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, Architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste: Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c. Together with a full Explanation, in Letter Press, to each Design, and exact Scales for Measurement. By Thomas Collins Overton.
Overton, Thomas Collins.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
Ernst L. Freud, architect : the case of the modern bourgeois home / Volker M. Welter.
Welter, VolkerDate: 2012- Books
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An essay on British cottage architecture: Being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance. Supported by fourteen designs, with their technography, or plans, laid down to scale; comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentleman; with various observations thereon: the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in Aqua-Tinta. By James Malton.
Malton, James, -1803.Date: M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798]- Books
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The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for Pleasure and Recreation; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste: Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c. Together with a full Explanation, in Letter Press, to each Design, and exact Scales for Measurement. By Thomas Collins Overton,
Overton, Thomas Collins.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing Jambs, the Preparing and Making their Soffits. Rules of carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, Straight or Curved. -- Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. -- Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their General and Particular Parts. -- Glewing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their Ramp and Twist Rails; Fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Cielings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the Newest Taste. -- With Plans and Elevations of Gentlemens' and Farm-Houses, Yards, Barns, &c. A new edition, revised and corrected by the author William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Rural architecture; or designs, from the simple cottage to the decorated villa; Including Some which have been Executed. By John Plaw, Architect and Surveyor. Etched and Shaded in Aqua-Tinta, on Sixty-Two Plates.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
Housing the aged in Western countries : programs, dwellings, homes, and geriatric facilities / by Glenn H. Beyer and F. H. J. Nierstrasz.
Beyer, Glenn H.Date: 1967