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This is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation of the distinct architecture in Yemen and includes detailed drawings, documentation, and information on new and existing projects from 2008-2014. Damluji delves into building methods and techniques hardly known outside of Yemen including UNESCO World Heritage sites and extraordinary buildings in less-visited areas.

Created by three of California’s leading native-plant horticulturalists and illustrated with over 450 color photos, this book is a comprehensive resource featuring more than 500 of California’s best native plants for gardening in Mediterranean climates. This book also includes chapters on landscape design, illustration, and maintenance.

This overview of work of world renowned architect Vincent Van Duysen, a leading creative in minimalist design, focuses on his most recent work over the past decade. This book features residences in New York, Paris, the Hamptons and London as well as yacht interior and furniture. With photography by internationally renowned architectural photographer Helene Binet, it makes a welcome addition to any design creative or enthusiasts’ shelf.

From the late 1940’s Kuwait has experienced an extraordinary social and civic transformation, which is evident in its built environment. The coastal town radically transformed through architecture and urban planning while gaining wealth and political autonomy. By reading the presence of the building in the urban context at the architectural level, this volume examines a wide range of buildings selected for their specific qualitative aspects, and for the various forms of adaptation to the peculiarities of local environmental conditions.

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EYRC is an award-winning internationally recognized architecture firm known for its modernist approached and elegant design. The book presents sixteen houses whose designs are unique because of the fusion of powerful, yet simple, forms with cultural and climatic contexts of a place. Alongside the photographs are featured sketches and material revealing the inception of design and completed project.

Renowed for designing interiors that combine minimalism with classic French style, Joseph Dirand one of the most celebrated architects today. This book is the first monograph of Dirand’s work, lavishly illustrated with photography that captures the timelessness of his designs. This book focuses primarily on Dirand’s residential interior design work in Paris and New York, with design works of hotels, restaurants, and fashion houses worldwide.

Over forty internationally renowned architects and educators were asked to list their top 100 twentieth-century architecture projects they would teach their students. The contributors were encouraged to select buildings where design concepts responded to dynamic historical, socio-cultural and political circumstances. With works ranging from houses and apartment buildings to museums and governmental buildings, this book is essential for anyone with an interest in architecture and design.

A volume dedicated to the emblematic history of the house on Venice’s Canal Grande and how Carlo Scarpa achieved a boîte à miracle. Scarpa restored the house between 1964 and 1968 for Loredana Balboni, collector and art dealer, the widow of Francesco Pasinetti, director of the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome and the sister of Letizia, the wife of Michelangelo Antonioni, who made it a meeting place for writers, artists and directors, from Paolini and Maselli, to Visconti and De Kooning and a veritable