Product Description: Home Sweet Remodeled Home. The American dream of owning a home and then buying or building a bigger and better one is no longer a sure thing. Millions of homeowners stymied by the housing market and the economy have embraced remodeling instead...read more

Presents a variety of architectural housing projects, providing home sites and floor plans and tips on choosing materials to maximize value while minimizing the cost.

Product Description: "It's all in the detail" goes the old saying, but in architecture this aspect of a design is often relegated to the backroom. Dickinson brings detail to the forefront by surveying the work of 28 contemporary architects and presenting their detailing work in both large and small scale projects...read more

Product Description: This both thought-provoking and useful work will help the professional architect, builder, and developer alike glean what has been proven successful and what has not in the recent design of multi-residential housing in the USA. Using a carefully planned questionnaire sent to key architects and developers of multi-residential projects, the authors have compiled extremely useful data on the performance and success of exemplary housing designs...read more

Shows how architects have solved the design problems of adding kitchens, bedrooms, baths, and living rooms, as well as complete remodelings