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7 reviews
Marcia Willett

St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

Long overdue for publication in the United States
The Courtyard is an excellent book, beautifully written, vivid, and evocative. The characters come alive, and so do their lives. The reader ends up caring deeply about them, hoping that all will turn out well. One of the huge advantages to Marcia Willett's books, incidentally, is that characters from her novels tend to show up in subsequent novels, so the reader really has a chance to "see ...

The Fantasy World of Josephine Wall

1 review

Courtyard of Romance, 2005

Fine Fantasy Art
I love the artwork, and I can think of multiple stories to go with the pictures. You can look at these for AGES and not get bored.

Homes & Courtyards: 28 Beautifully Designed Homes for Outdoor Living

2 reviews

Designs Direct Publishing, 2007

brilliant
For an architectual point of view, it covers superb floor plans, internally it gives you a peek into another world and the out door finishes are to be seen to be believed. These are coffee table books for just not any home, but every home.

Morocco: Courtyards and Gardens

2 reviews
Achva Benzinberg Stein

Monacelli, 2007

A must-have for landscape architecture students and design professionals!
Professor Stein was the Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program in the School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC) when I was studying in USC. She is one of the best teachers and most talented professors that I have ever met and I learned a lot from her, including motivation for study, design methodology, landscape theory, etc. She was my teacher and she'll ...

Courtyard Gardens of Kyoto's Merchant Houses

2 reviews
Katsuhiko Mizuno

Kodansha International, 2006

"Let the stones speak with tongues that talk all tongues."
Kyoto is one of the most aesthetically refined cities in the world. In the summer, it's also one of the hottest. So naturally this fine city's residents beat the heat in a manner both tastefully elegant and ingeniously functional. And that's the subject of this lavishly illustrated book: tsuboniwa, smallish gardens set within the structure of Kyoto's machiya townhouses so as to facilitate the ...

Hacienda Courtyards (Mexican Design Books)

5 reviews
Karen Witynski, Joe P. Carr

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007

Make the Outside of your Home as Beautiful as the Inside!
This book is the bible for Interior Designers who wish to follow through with interior spaces and make the patios and gardens beckon their clients to enjoy equally their outside spaces. This book is a must in every designers library.

Landscapes for Small Spaces: Japanese Courtyard Gardens

6 reviews
Katsuhiko Mizuno

Kodansha International, 2002

Beyond the basics, Japanese Garden Book
I've been through a lot of Japanese gardening books, and many of been a little repetitive, covering the basic design elements and what not. Mizuno has put together a great "Intermediate" read once you've had enough of the basics. The pictures are some of the best available of authentic Japanese gardens, and the captions are short and to the point but with just enough plant identifications to be ...

In A Mexican Garden: Courtyards, Pools, and Open-Air Living Rooms

16 reviews
Gina Hyams

Chronicle Books, 2005

Colour-Fest
This book is an explosion of beautiful colours on every page! It is filled with beautiful photographs of Mexican outdoor living and the commentary is concise but clear, enabling the reader to copy the ideas found in the book. I intend to use the book to create my own Mexican/Spanish style courtyard.

Courtyards: Aesthetic, Social, and Thermal Delight

13 reviews
John S. Reynolds

Wiley, 2001

THE Book on Courtyards.
Courtyards is a terrific book, the result of 20+ years of loving research. Oregon Professor John Reynolds is crazy for courtyards and it certainly shows. A courtyard is a space surrounded by a building, often surrounded by a house. There are all manner of courtyards, large, small, huge, quiet, loud. Some are open and others are terribly private. But all good courtyards have things in common. In ...

Courtyards: Intimate Outdoor Spaces

3 reviews
Douglas Keister

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005

What a Beautiful Book
The author has definitely done his homework. We are in the process of creating a courtyard in our back yard after having added a sunroom this past season. Our theme has been "New Orleans" for the sunroom ... even though we live in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we have visited New Orleans many times and consider it our "home away from home". There are courtyards from New Orleans featured in ...

Ruler of the Courtyard
Rukshana Khan

Viking Juvenile, 2003

Is it just Saba, or do chickens scare everyone? The chickens in her yard are especially mean, chasing her and pecking at her toes. But when she sees a snake in the bathhouse, Saba realizes that chickens aren't her only problem. She has to act fast to protect herself and her nani, her grandma, from the snake. Can she conquer the chickens and the snake to become the Ruler of the Courtyard? Does she really have to conquer them at all? Set in ...

A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

4 reviews
Paul Bowles

City Lights Publishers, 2009

Paul Bowles for Beginners
"A pipe of kif before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard." The proverb which opens this collection of stories lets us know where Bowles is coming from. Four short tales of Moroccan kif smokers open doors into worlds distant in time, space, and spiritual reality from millennial America. Bowles' style is distantly reminiscent of Hemingway in its bare ...

Behind the Doors of San Miguel de Allende

6 reviews

Pomegranate Communications, 2000

From the Publisher
"Robert de Gast, author of the popular The Doors of San Miguel de Allende crosses the thresholds of homes in this historic Mexican town to discover their remarkable outdoor paradises--sunstruck, lushly colored courtyards, patios, and breezeways--that lay beyond them. Come with de Gast as he guides viewers to parts of San Miguel visitors seldom see and offers glimpses into the daily lives and ...

Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles

6 reviews
Stefanos Polyzoides, Roger Sherwood, ...

Princeton Architectural Press, 1996

Onather world of peace and charm
More than stressing a communal vibe, the courtyard buildings covered in Courtyard Housing reflect Hollywood's fascination with fantasy architecture. The sense of palatial Moorish palaces at a smaller scale provide a whimsical escape from the drudgery of everyday urban life, while the climate of Los Angeles and the Mediterranean architecture combine to create a sense of exotic, charming ...

Japanese Courtyard Gardens: Photographs

4 reviews

Japan Publications (USA), 1997

One of the best purchase I've ever made!
Very beautiful photos. Nicely printed. Each photos has detailed description. Good for someone who loves Japaense culture, or who just loves gardens. I got this for a gift, but I will have to get some more for other friends, and for me!

Courtyard Housing: Past, Present, Future
Brian Edwards

Spon Press, 2005

Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on ...

Courtyard Houses: A Housing Typology

2 reviews
Günter Pfeifer, Per Brauneck

Birkhäuser Basel, 2007

beg to disagree with negative comments
I've reviewed this book and strongly disagree with negative assessments. It's a typology book, a study of the courthouse type, and some excellent built examples are provided (such as the often admired courtyard house by Alberto Campo Baeza), as well as some great research done by professors and their students at the University of Darmstadt, showing new courtyard house ideas. As a book on ...

Courtyards for Modern Living: Contemporary Outdoor Spaces
Stephen Crafti

Images Publishing Group, 2008

This book features gardens especially created for inner-city homes.

Emma's Courtyard
Jo Morton

Prairie Hands Patterns, 2004

Enjoy the process making this wonderful quilt. A mix of applique and piecing that measures 90" x 90", designed so the piecing falls at the edge of a queen size bed and the applique is the drop. A lovely addition to your quilt collection.

Courtyard Gardens (Country Living Gardener)

2 reviews
Toby Musgrave

Hearst, 2005

Beautiful photos, interesting ideas
This is a great book for those of us with only a small space to garden. The book is broken up into different themes for your courtyard garden, such as latin courtyard, morrocan courtyard, contemporary courtyard, french courtyard, medieval courtyard, etc. Each style of courtyard has about two pages of information, then a plant list of appropriate plants and a sketch of a possible layout for that ...

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