The Garden Architect
Architectural garden planning. How to give your garden the bones and structure it needs to be attractive all year. This time of year, at the threshold of spring, is when many gardens receive their first serious annual review. If you have a clear ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Robin White
Robin White has been an oil-well roughneck, oil-well-logging engineer, science writer, community energy planner, and an architect by vocation, an instrument-rated pilot by avocation. He has lived all over the United States and in Europe, ... [... more]
Random House |
John Riordan
John Riordan is an architect and writer. His passions for food and design have led him to restaurants worldwide. He lives in Washington D.C., where he subjects his friends and family to culinary designs of his own at home. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Sadie Jones
Sadie Jones was born and brought up in London, where she now lives with her husband, architect Tim Boyd, and their two children. This is her first novel. A: When I began the book I thought that the process would be very different, but many of the ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Barbara Isenberg
Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations from twenty years of interviews with Frank Gehry, Barbara Isenberg gives us an unprecedented, intimate portrait of our most influential architect. In addition, sketches, ... [... more]
Random House |
Kathy Stinson
Kathy Stinson was born in Toronto. She was a mail sorter, elementary school teacher, and a waitress before she turned her hand to writing. It was a wise decision. She wrote Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who has been a landscape architect for more ... [... more]
Random House |
Sarah Susanka
Sarah Susanka is a bestselling author, architect, and cultural visionary. Her "build better, not bigger" approach to residential architecture has been embraced across the country, and her "Not So Big" philosophy has sparked an [... more]
Random House |
Belly Of An Architect
 The most beautiful story by Greenaway: I sat for about 10 minutes in front of the televison after watching this. Simply absorbing what I had seen. This is one of Peter Greenaway's least visual films. But unlike the Draughtsman's Contract, the story steps [... more]
CDN$15.98
Amazon CA |
Julia Morgan, Architect
Best general interest book about Morgan: Comprehensive with great photographs, this is a good place to start learning about Morgan's career. Wonderful Review Of A Forgotten Master: A wonderful survey of a truly great Architect. Great photos. Original [... more]
CDN$60.00
Amazon CA |
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect
Good Book with a Few Flaws: This book chronicles the work of Hugh Newell Jacobson until 1988. This brilliant American architect is in my opinion very underrated, as this seems to be the only book dedicated exclusively to his work. The many plans and [... more]
CDN$118.50
Amazon CA |
Le Corbusier: Moments in the Life of a Great Architect
From Amazon.com: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, a Swiss-born Frenchman better known as Le Corbusier, may well have been the 20th century's greatest architect. He was also a capable painter, a brilliant theoretician and polemicist, and a terrible city [... more]
CDN$48.92
Amazon CA |
The Divine Architect: The Art of Living and Beyond
No room for God: After whetting my appetite on some good books on this subject I found this one disappointing. Right from the beginning the author suggests that organized religions are a scam and Jesus can't be trusted. However, we are to believe that [... more]
CDN$16.00
Amazon CA |
