The Tao of Cob: How a Kansas Grandmother Built Her Own Natural House in the Woods    by Dorethy Hancock
Price: $2.99 USD. 43400 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2013. Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Architecture.
The Tao of Cob is a how-to book on earthen-house building, written as a memoir in Dorethy's pithy, homespun philosophical voice.

A magyar művészet a XIX. és a XX. Században    by Kampis Antal
Price: $2.49 USD. 28240 words. Language: Hungarian. Agented by Publio Kiadó  on May 14, 2013. Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Architecture.
Az olvasóhoz: a mű bizonyos ideológiai, politikai jellemzéseit illik fenntartással kezelni, hiszen jóval a rendszerváltás előtt készült, amikor még kötelező ideológiai iránymutatás volt.

Building Your Own Home - Tips, Techniques and Thoughts for the Owner-Builder    by Carl A Harte
Price: $4.99 USD. 85260 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Architecture.
A detailed, valuable resource for building an energy efficient, comfortable and “sustainable” home. Contains 23 chapters with more than 60 photos & diagrams. Some topics: Insulation, design & proportion, size & layout, construction methods, Passive Solar Design, rainwater harvesting, plumbing, sustainable heating, cooling, hot water, cooking, alternative energy, adobe, steel.

Shelter in the Southwest - Early Dwellings of the Borderlands    by Agnesa Reeve-Kidney
Price: $2.99 USD. 24560 words. Language: English. Published on January 3, 2013. Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Architecture.
The prospect of building a house must have been daunting for early nineteenth century newcomers to the desert regions—no timber or stone, no iron hinges or window glass—a hundred things that seem necessities. It was here that residents already settled provided a model in the adobe house. Reeve-Kidney meticulously documents this fascinating chapter of of architectural history.

Death of American Architecture    by Dennis Rusk
Price: $4.99 USD. 52850 words. Language: English. Published by The von Raesfeld Agency  on November 27, 2012. Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Architecture.
American architecture is dying a slow, agonizing death, akin to a disease that eats away at the human spirit. The individualist creative minds in American architecture flourished between the World Wars - Organic, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco. Now the death toll rings monotonously as artistic endeavors of architectural design melt into mediocrity. Greatness is poorly imitated and rarely improved upon.

A City Beautiful Dream: The 1912 Vision for Colorado Springs    by Charles Mulford Robinson
Price: $4.99 USD. 47310 words. Language: English. Published by Pikes Peak Library District on November 23, 2012. Nonfiction » History » North America.
The city’s potential was clear to civic architect Charles Mulford Robinson, though he acknowledged the city’s previous planning mistakes and ill-conceived design choices, like the grid of wide streets and the “unfortunate spacing” of median “parking strips” on Cascade Avenue. Robinson’s recommendations, reproduced as this book, were formed from his observations described in two reports.

Chapter 1 - Color Management (3ds Max 2010 Architectural Visualization)    by CGschool (Formerly 3DATS)
Price: $2.99 USD. 22430 words. Language: American English. Published on September 10, 2012. Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Photography - how to.
Simply put, color management is the controlled process of converting color between different devices with the end goal of obtaining repeatable and as closely matched color reproductions as possible on each of the various devices. In other words, we want to set up a process where all of our devices speak the same language and interpret color the same way.

Pellegrino di cemento. Le Voyage d'Orient a 100 anni da Le Corbusier    by Flavio Stroppini
Price: $5.00 USD. 35060 words. Language: Italian. Published by Gabriele Capelli Editore  on July 16, 2012. Nonfiction » Travel » Trip Journals.
Nel 1911 Le Corbusier intraprese un viaggio che lo avrebbe condotto attraverso la Germania, la Boemia, l’Austria, i Balcani, la Romania, la Bulgaria, l’Ungheria, Istanbul, Atene, fino al Monte Athos, per poi ricondurlo in Svizzera attraverso l’Italia. Chiamò l’esperienza “Voyage d’Orient”. Oggi cosa rimane? Perché non raccontare il viaggio di Le Corbusier cento anni dopo, ripercorrendolo?

Fantastic Ferrocement - For Practical, permanent Elven Architecture, Follies, Fairy Gardens and Other Virtuous Ventures    by Peter Harris
Price: $3.99 USD. 20400 words. Language: English. Published on April 18, 2012. Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Architecture.
If you have ever wanted to sculpt or build in a permanent material that is extremely strong and can be moulded to any shape, ferrocement is the medium for you - and this concise book shows you how. Tools, techniques and sample projects - a garden pot, angel, dome, and more - are all logically described and illustrated. The many photos showing the building of Cafe Eutopia will inspire and inform.

Spacetecture    by Daniela Bertol
Price: $3.99 USD. 21940 words. Language: English. Published on August 18, 2011. Nonfiction » Computers and Internet » Computer aided design.
Abridgment of the fully illustrated SPACETECTURE, part of a trilogy of books and interactive content exploring space and its transformation in the information age. The emphasis is on computing design applications, but the concept of space is also explored from an interdisciplinary approach ranging from geometry to psychology of perception.