Art&DesignWinter2024

Log Cabins: Past & Present Tina Skinner & Tommi Jamison. An incredible collection of imagery takes you on a tour of old and new log homes, offering restorers and new homebuilders alike a chance to recreate ar- chitectural traditions in a home for today’s family. Ex- amine details from log finishing and chinking, to the staircases, windows, doorways, and floors that work together to frame the log home lifestyle. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215x279mm) •300 color photos •160pp. •978-0-7643- 3013-1 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Log & Timber Frame Homes Tina Skinner. Tour more than 35 houses, inside and out, through beauti- ful color photographs. Most are shown with floor plans. A helpful aid for home builders planning their custom dwelling. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 385+ color photos, 67 floor plans • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-1754-5 • HC • $44.95 / £40.99 / $63.95 CAD Log Home Inspirations Roger Wade & Tina Skinner. Explore 18 private log homes and get- away cabins with acclaimed architectural pho- tographer Roger Wade. Illustrates the tremendous possibilities of furnishings and decor, as well as the opportunity to study architectural details graced by different log styles, corner systems, and finishes. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 200+ color photos, floor plans • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2655-4 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Artisan Crafted Timber Frame Homes Tina Skinner, Introduction by Jonathan Vincent. Explore more than 25 finely crafted timber frame homes, inside and out. Guided by floor plans, this pho- tographic journey takes you from an overall look at the exteriors of stately, custom built homes through the interiors • 11"x81/2" (279x215mm) • 250+ color photos, floor plans • 192 pp. • 978-0- 7643-2486-4 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Authentic Log Homes: Restored Timbers for Today’s Homesteads Ferris Robinson. Each gorgeous log home shown was built with reclaimed timbers. The way log homes are sup- posed to look: dove-tailed corners, weathered barn wood, antique heart pine, and ancient beams. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 283 color photos, 27floor plans •176pp. •978-0-7643-2191- 7 • HC • $35.00 / £31.99 / $48.95 CAD Barn Style Living: Design and Plan Inspiration for Timber Frame Homes Tina Skinner & Tony Hanslin. Explore exquisite timber frame homes. Floor plans serve as your tour guide to 30 homes created with the aesthetic of the barn as its inspiration. Enjoy gorgeous great rooms, kitchens, dens, living rooms, and spacious master suites. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 298 color photos & 30 floor plans • 208 pp. • 978- 0-7643-2386-7 • HC • $44.95 / £40.99 / $63.95 CAD The Best of Today’s Log Homes Tina Skinner with the Log Homes Council. Here’s an opportunity to tour 28 beautiful log homes through sumptuous photographs and floor plans. This is a wonderful tool for anyone who dreams of someday building a log home, with hundreds of ideas to sift through. These are real homes, chosen for their outstanding design, tasteful decoration, and real-life, lived-in practicality • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 250+ color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2954-8 • PB • $20.00 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Cedar Homes: Ideas for Log and Timber Frame Designs Tina Skinner, Photography by Roger Wade. An intimate tour of more than two-dozen exquisite top-end log and timber frame homes. Stunning overviews of private kitchens, great rooms, master suites, home of- fices, and entertainment rooms. Each home is shown with floor plans. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) •350+color photos •208pp. •978-0-7643-1874-0•HC•$39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Cedar Style: A Look at Lovely Log Homes Tina Skinner & Roger Wade. Take a tour of high- end log homes in this inspiring compendium of 25 very fine homes found throughout the United States. More than 200 full-color photographs and detailed floor plans act as a guide in nego- tiating these exquisitely designed, expansive residences • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 200+ color photos •144pp. •978-0-7643-2951-7•HC•$40.00 / £36.99 / $56.95CAD The Contemporary Log Home: SolidWood Homes for Residential Living Marc Wilhelm Lennartz. Healthy and sustainable living in a log house: Log cabins made of solid wood provide comfortable and healthy living. These houses offer natural, climate-friend- ly options for both home life and work. 30 examples of log home models built around the world. Included are more than 300 images of floor plans, maps, and exteriors and interiors. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 304 color &b/w images •176pp. •978-0-7643-4330-8• HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD Heavy Timber Structures: Creating Comfort in Public Spaces Anthony F. Zaya, Tim Diener. Thirty-five case studies of exemplary public build- ings explore how heavy timber framing can address structural, economic, aesthetic, and sustainabil- ity issues. • 12" x 9" (304 x 228mm) •461photos • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-5420-5 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD Offshore Windpower Christopher Gillis. This comprehensive survey includes more than 140 photos and illustrations that examine the history of the wind turbine and the current movement to place turbines in coastal waters. The process of building an offshore wind farm is explored. An extensive list of resources enables individuals, businesses, and advocates to tap into wind as a free, natural, and clean source of en- ergy • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 142 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3743-7 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD The Passive Solar Primer: Sustainable Architecture David Wright. This comprehensive book provides simple graphics and language to illuminate concepts that include greenhouse effect, heat storage, surface-to-volume ratio, ventilation, and cooling. Tips, rules-of-thumb, regional characteristics, and many other consid- erations are presented to help readers, from initial site selection to visionary design. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 425 photos • 280 pp. • 978-0-7643-3070-4 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Barn Style Homes: Design Ideas for Timber Frame Houses Tina Skinner and Tony Hanslin. Includes stunning images from 38 custom-built homes complete with floor plans. Furnishing and decorating ideas for great rooms, master bedrooms, dining rooms, home offices, kitchens and baths, and lofty hideaways. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 275 color photos, 37 illus. • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-1319-6 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Mexican Style, Sustainable Tina Skinner. Take a visually rich tour through a burgeoning community on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula and learn how the dream of visionaries is shaping the community of Loreto Bay as a model for the future. That place is wonderfully illus- trated here, from the colorful adobe architecture and Spanish mission furnishings, to the scenes presented by the white sands of the Sea of Cortez and the fertile desert beyond • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 110 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-2743-8 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Natural Building: Creating Communities Through Cooperation Timothy Rieth & Bob Ferris, Editors. Basics in foundations, framing, wall systems, and roofs are explored through the shared experiences of teach- ers, students, and seekers who came together one summer to build a low-impact building. Share with them in this primer course on natural building techniques, materials, and approaches. • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) • 147 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3039-1 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Green Homes: Dwellings for the 21st Century E. Ashley Rooney with David Hartke and John C. Mc- Connell. An indispensable guide to strategies of solar orientation, natural ventilation, and recycling of house- hold water, as well as cutting edge materials and building technologies, such as earth sheltering, thermal mass, super insulation, geothermal heating and cool- ing, and photovoltaic electrical generation—all with- out compromising aesthetic goals. More than 50 green homes in approximately 400 color photos. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 400 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3033-9 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construc- tion Earth Pledge, Foreword by William McDonough. Examine possibilities for city-wide green roof develop- ment using 335 color photographs, 40 in-depth build- ing case studies, and 7 municipal case studies around the world • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 335 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2189-4 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD The Hybrid Electric Home: Clean, Efficient, Prof- itable " Craig Toepfer. Through a combination of wind, solar, and other clean and renewable energy technol- ogies, individuals, businesses, and communities can invest in equipment to produce electricity for themselves. This book explains how to reduce reliance on the pow- er companies, restore market forces, increase econom- ic security, create jobs, improve efficiency, and reduce waste. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 105 color & 62 B/Wphotos•144pp. •978-0-7643-3403-0•PB•$24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD LEEDING the Way: Domestic Architecture for the Future: LEED Certified, Green, Passive & Natural E. Ashley Rooney and Ross Cann, Adam Prince, and Virge Temme. Tour 53 environmentally friendly houses. The homes featured meet a variety of guidelines: LEED, Green, Passive, and Natural. More than 300 images show a wide variety of designs and styles, including cottages and beach houses, prefab- ricated and renovated homes, and much more. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 306 color images • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-4925-6 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD Windpower Christopher Gillis with a Foreword by R. Nolan Clark. Wind energy is today’s most developed form of “green” power on the planet, with plenty of room to grow. This comprehensive survey examines the history of wind power, from early peoples’ tech- nology to harness the wind for basic mechanical tasks, such as turning grain to flour, through today’s “Wind Rush.” • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 141 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2969-2 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD CONTEMPORARYARCHITECTURE: LOG&TIMBERFRAME CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE: GREEN ARCHITECTURE & ENERGY • LOG & TIMBER FRAME | 69