Examines current industry standards concerned with the use of wood and wood products. Features detailed studies of joists, special beams, residential trusses and arches ...

An account of prefabricated architecture around the world, from McDonalds drive-through restaurants to Ikea's flat-pack house.

A free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.

A detailed and timely look at the resourceful ways wood is being used in some of the world's most innovative new buildings.

In 1848, the second year of the new Dutch "kolonie" in West Michigan's Ottawa County, a much-needed brick manufacturing industry was begun in the rich clay fields between ...

Photographs and text describe historical buildings across Texas that were built with nature-made materials such as rocks, logs, and mud.