domestic architecture

Introduces the basic concepts and vocabulary of architecture, focusing on storybook homes, such as towers, cottages, a shoe house, and more.

Introduces the basic concepts and vocabulary of architecture, focusing on adventure homes, such as treehouses, tipis, boat houses, and ice homes.

Photographs and text profile the residential work of McKim, Mead & White, one of the most influential and best known architecture firms in the United States.

Explores why various parts of houses--walls, roofs, windows, floors, and furnishings--are made of particular materials, have certain shapes, and perform specific functions.

Visual presentation of the many types of houses built in America from the earliest Indian dwellings to designs for futuristic homes.