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54 reviews
Michael S. Heiser

Superior Books, 2004

The Facade blew my mind! The new edition is even better!
I never read a book so quickly. The Facade made me stay up late and turn page after page, it was a non-stop action packed thrill ride. I read the new edition from [..]and I hear it is a much better read with new chapters and all the fluff cut out. Awesome!

Facade Construction Manual (Construction Manuals (englisch))

2 reviews
Thomas Herzog, Roland Krippner, ...

Birkhäuser Basel, 2008

facade manual
excellent reference manual as all the books from the DETAIL series,... very recommended

Façades: Principles of Construction
Ulrich Knaack, Tillmann Klein, ...

Birkhäuser Basel, 2007

Facades determine the appearance of a building. Thus they have a very important role to play in architecture. At the same time, the building envelope has important functions to fulfill, including lighting, weatherproofing, thermal isolation, load distribution, and sound insulation, to name only the most important. In the last fifteen years, facades have become significantly more complex. For example, "intelligent,? climate-active facades use ...

Architectural Details - Facades

Verlagshaus Braun, 2008

Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective

142 reviews
Paul Rieckhoff

NAL Trade, 2007

Honest and Insightful
Great book! I found it honest, to the point and there was no fooling around about the emotions and the reality of this war. I, for one, appreciate that.

The Great Facade: Vatican II and the Regime of Novelty in the Roman Catholic Church

12 reviews
Christopher A. Ferrara, Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The Remnant Press, 2002

A strong challenge to the Reforms following Vatican II
Few books could be more important for concerned Catholics than this one. Woods and Ferrara present a fair and even handed critique of the abuses, novelties, and seemingly unwarranted changes to almost every aspect of Church life since Vatican II. The Strength of this book is that it is well footnoted, and everything it purports can be verified in fact by both Church and Secular News. ...

Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe

2 reviews
Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Thames & Hudson, 2002

An opus which sets a glorious visual feast before us.
I saw this book at the home of an artist friend once. These portraits of East African women and their exquisitely painted homes are rare gems indeed. What I also appreciate about this work is that photographer Margaret Courtney-Clarke lavishes such attention and respect to the other cultural aspects of these beautiful people that she could be labeled a sociologist as well. The publisher, ...

Design Ideas for Curb Appeal (House Plan Bible)

2 reviews
Megan Connelly

Creative Homeowner, 2006

Good for ideas
This book has wonderful photographs of exteriors of home that just ooze curb appeal. A previous review said there were no before and after's, there are, but the before pictures are so small it's easy to overlook them. There also are only a few before and after photos. Many of the modifications that provide curb appeal include additions, second stories or very elaborate porches, grand entries and ...

Structural Renovation of Buildings: Methods, Details, & Design Examples

5 reviews
Alexander Newman

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2000

A Pragmatic Building Restoration Guide -- at Last!
While this text explores renovation of a wide variety of building systems -- reinforced and post-tensioned concrete, wood, steel, masonry -- from a structural engineering perspective, it is quite pragmatically written and a non-engineer will derive considerable benefit from it. The book provides an excellent and detailed guide to critical issues that are confronted in period restoration, ...

Facades Selection and Details

1 review
Carles Broto

Links International, 2008

Good one, easy to read
In fact, there is not too much to read, is more about pictures of selected projects, is very good for starting in architecture and knowing buildings that are not so usual.

Building Facades: Faces, Figures, and Ornamental Details
Ernest Burden

McGraw-Hill Professional, 1996

Unique in the literature and sure to become a standard reference, here is the first guide to the identification and restoration of building facades. Featuring 2,000 b/w halftones illustrations, it chronicles in photo-essay style the diversity of facades from around the world. Images are shown within their historical and social context, and are easily accessed through cross-references to chronology, geography, location, building type, type of ...

Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans, Details and Elements: With 1880 Line Drawings of ...

2 reviews
John Theodore Haneman

Dover Publications, 1984

Great Reference for "designer's block".
I bought this book while still a student in architecure school. After many, many years of professional practice I still regularly pull this book off my shelf when I need a jolt out of "designer's block". This book is a reference tool and nothing else. It contains many reference sketches from a variety of architectural elements including but not limited to plan form layouts, facade massing ...

The Woman Behind the Mask: Trading Your Facade for Authentic Life

3 reviews
Jan Coleman

Kregel Publications, 2005

A Compelling & Helpful Book
THE WOMAN BEHIND THE MASK(correct title on cover) is a compelling, wonderful read! Author Jan Coleman reveals her own story and models transparent sharing. Not easy to do. She obviously cares about her readers. Her book flows with incredible liberating insights. She stresses authentic living as a must in order to find wholeness. Her use of true anecdotes about herself and other women kept me ...

ClimateSkin: Building-skin Concepts that Can Do More with Less Energy
Gerhard Hausladen, Michael de Saldanha, ...

Birkhäuser Basel, 2008

The facade plays a critical role in the conception of energy- and climate-optimized buildings: it is the building?s skin and functions as an interface between interior and exterior space. It provides thermal and sound insulation and ventilation, and controls and guides the entrance of daylight into the building. Climate Skin offers concrete planning advice for architects and engineers who wish to exploit not only the architectural potential of ...

The Facade
Michael S. Heiser

AcidTest Press, 2007

****************New Forward by Author and new cover art!!!! ************************ The plot of The Facade is driven by the fate of a team of scholars recruited for an Above-Top-Secret project against their will by a cabal of military insiders known only as "The Group." To gain the team's trust, the Group authorizes successive levels of disclosure to astonishing technologies, shocking alien artifacts, and documents which chronicle the ...

Athena and Eden: The Hidden Meaning of the Parthenon's East Facade

9 reviews
Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.

Solving Light Books, 2002

Fabulous new source for reflection - Very highly recommended
The focus of Greek civilization, the Parthenon captures viewers imaginations even as it conceals its true meaning. In his ground breaking work, Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. author of ATHENA AND EDEN: THE HIDDEN MEANING OF THE PARTHENON'S EAST FACADE demonstrates that when Athena is seen to be Eve, then Greek mythology becomes narrative art. Consequently, the marble sculptures on the east pediment of ...

Beyond the Façade: Political Reform in the Arab World

1 review

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008

Arab States Only Give Appearance Of Change
A superb review of political reform (or lack thereof) in ten nations in the Arab world - Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen. Significantly, chapters are written by specialists in that region, not idealists. Most of these governments admit change is necessary, but do not want to surrender power. Most change toward democratization has been ...

The Villas of Palladio

5 reviews
Giovanni Giaconi, Kim Williams

Princeton Architectural Press, 2003

The best drawings of Palladio's Villas
Finally a beautiful book about Palladio's architecture that deals only with drawings and not photographs. I find this book extremely interesting and absolutely beautifully produced. The format, the paper and the quality of the reproductions give the reader a beautiful chance to enjoy and admire the linear proportions and symmetry of Palladio's architecture. More interesting is the fact that ...

Falling Glass

1 review
Patrick Loughran

Birkhäuser Basel, 2003

kiron
Simple and clear description. A must, before designing a building with any amount of glass.

Magic Facade: The Austin House

Wadsworth Atheneum, 2007

In 1930 twenty-nine-year-old Chick Austin and his wife, Helen Goodwin built a house on one of the grandest streets in Hartford. It was a pastiche inspired by a sixteenth-century Palladian villa they had seen near Venice on their honeymoon, but instead of brick and stucco, the house was constructed with painted pine boards. Behind its 86-foot-long facade, it was a mere 18 feet deep, leading Austin's neighbors, who lived in respectable ...

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