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Book Kevin McCloud   s Principles of Home  Making a Place to Live

Download or read book Kevin McCloud s Principles of Home Making a Place to Live written by Kevin McCloud and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical paperback edition of the landmark design manifesto from the UK’s favourite design guru.

Book Kevin McCloud   s Principles of Home Text Only

Download or read book Kevin McCloud s Principles of Home Text Only written by Kevin McCloud and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New, practical paperback edition of the landmark design manifesto from the UK’s favourite design guru.

Book Kevin McCloud s 43 Principles of Home

Download or read book Kevin McCloud s 43 Principles of Home written by Kevin McCloud and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kevin McCloud s 43 Principles of Home

Download or read book Kevin McCloud s 43 Principles of Home written by Kevin McCloud and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin McCloud's 43 Principles of Home represents a landmark piece of interiors publishing.In this lavish and inspirational yet also practical book Kevin will be exploring all areas of domestic living, from materialism to sustainability, craftsmanship to comfort. In his witty, wide-ranging commentary on the way we live now, the things we have gained and lost, Kevin's beautifully written text brings insight and understanding. Crucially, however, he will also be offering up his 43 principles of home life - each one addressing very real and solvable domestic issues. What is the perfect kitchen layout? How to create a feeling of space in traditionally sized rooms? How to create an extension that works? How best to choose colour for function? How do you create dynamic and enjoyable kids spaces? What to do with your empty fireplace? And how best to manage home waste and recycling? An inspiring but always usable book from the foremost voice in modern architectural design.

Book Eco Homes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Doctor Jenny Pickerill
  • Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
  • Release : 2016-01-15
  • ISBN : 1780325339
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Eco Homes written by Doctor Jenny Pickerill and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. Despite this, relatively few eco-houses are being built. Featuring over thirty case studies of eco-housing in Britain, Spain, Thailand, Argentina and the United States, Eco-Homes examines the ways in which radical changes to our houses – such as making them more temporary, using natural materials, or relying on manual heating and ventilation systems – require changes in how we live. As such, it argues, it is not lack of technology or political will that is holding us back from responding to climate change, but deep-rooted cultural and social understandings of our way of life and what we expect our houses to do for us.

Book Decorative Style

Download or read book Decorative Style written by Kevin McCloud and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows forty decorating styles and demonstrates special painting techniques.

Book The 73 Principles of Home

Download or read book The 73 Principles of Home written by Kevin McCloud and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Choosing Colours

Download or read book Choosing Colours written by Kevin McCloud and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interior decoration.

Book Grand Designs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aneta Podkalicka
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-11-28
  • ISBN : 113757898X
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Grand Designs written by Aneta Podkalicka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first academic book to examine the long running hit series Grand Designs, which occupies a significant place in the popular imagination internationally. The authors apply an empirically grounded, critical perspective to the study of television to reveal how people use the program in their everyday lives. The emphasis on everyday uses and meanings combines creatively with understanding the program theoretically, textually and in terms of its production structures. This position challenges framings of the popular lifestyle and factual television genre that has been dominated by a neoliberal or governmentality perspective for many years. Presented by British designer and writer, Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs follows the progress of home owners as they embark on design, renovation and building projects at almost always dizzying scales of endeavour. Understanding the program as both a text to analyse and a site of material impact, the book draws on interviews with production members, home renovators, building practitioners and audiences, as well as references to associated media formats to provide contextual depth to the analysis. The authors argue that, as a cultural object, the program is both shaped by and enacts social discourses of home-making, design value and taste. Navigating public, commercial and promotional logics, Grand Designs sparks new forms of cultural production and consumer markets.

Book Kevin McCloud   s How to Make Your House a Home  Collins Shorts  Book 3

Download or read book Kevin McCloud s How to Make Your House a Home Collins Shorts Book 3 written by Kevin McCloud and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.

Book Universal Principles of Design  Revised and Updated

Download or read book Universal Principles of Design Revised and Updated written by William Lidwell and published by Rockport Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal Principles of Design is the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of design.

Book Self Build Homes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michaela Benson
  • Publisher : UCL Press
  • Release : 2017-11-27
  • ISBN : 1911576887
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Self Build Homes written by Michaela Benson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households.Divided into four parts – Discourse, Rationale, Meaning; Values, Lifestyles, Imaginaries; Community and Identity; and Perspectives from Practice – the volume comes at a time of renewed focus from policy managers and practitioners, as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build as a means for producing homes that are more stylised, affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of households. It responds to recent advances in housing and planning policy, while also bringing this into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences on housing, home and homemaking. In this way, the book seeks to update understandings of self-build and to account for housing as a distinctly social process.

Book Choosing Colors

Download or read book Choosing Colors written by Kevin McCloud and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority on home design creates color schemes for an array of home decor styles, including contemporary New York chic and traditional Chinese, accompanied by swatches of more than one thousand color chips.

Book Kevin McCloud s Colour Now

Download or read book Kevin McCloud s Colour Now written by Kevin McCloud and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin McCloud of Channel 4's Grand Designs shows you how to master colour, how to use it in sophisticated ways and how to employ it to transform your surroundings. Featured are 65 tried-and-tested palettes tuilt from over 100 compatible colours that can be used as decorative blueprints for your own home - whether period, modern, rustic or urban. Useful tips and trade secrets on colour relationships and how to manipulate the palettes are included, while every swatch is also matched to a commercially available paint. Informative, accessible, authoritative and inspiring - this book will enable you to unlock a world of colour.--Cover.

Book Walter Segal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Grahame
  • Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
  • Release : 2021-01-14
  • ISBN : 9781848223899
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Walter Segal written by Alice Grahame and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the architect Walter Segal (1907-1985): his intellectual biography (background, influences, thoughts, writings), his unique approach to architectural practice (and his built work) and his enduring impact on architecture and attitudes to housing across the world. It firstly sets out his formative years in continental Europe. Segal's father was an eminent modern painter, close to leading architects and artists and he grew up in a fascinating milieu, at the centre of the European avant-garde. With the rise of Hitler, this Jewish family fled, finally settling in England prior to the Second World War. The second section focuses on Walter Segal's central theme of popular housing, his unique and independent form of professional practice, how he managed to spread his ideas through writing and teaching, and how his architecture developed towards the timber-frame system known world-wide today as 'the Segal system, ' which could be used by people to build their own houses. The final section of the book explores the legacy offered by Segal to younger generations; how his work and example, half a century after his timber 'system' was developed, leads to the possibility of making, and then living within, communities whose places are constructed with a flexible, easily assembled, planet-friendly timberframe building system today and tomorrow.

Book The Passivhaus Handbook

Download or read book The Passivhaus Handbook written by Janet Cotterell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As we move towards the 2016 zero carbon target in house building, Passivhaus construction looks like becoming not just popular in the UK, but commonplace. This is a no-nonsense and engaging introduction on how to do it.' KEVIN MCCLOUD - The Passivhaus Handbook is an essential guide for anyone wanting to realise a supremely comfortable, healthy and durable home with exceptionally low energy costs. Passivhaus design focuses on getting the building fabric right, to achieve ultra-low energy consumption cost-effectively. The approach is relevant to a wide range of building types and climates. Its methodology can be combined with elements of other building standards, such as the UK's Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH), or with other sustainable building goals, such as a commitment to using low-impact or natural building materials. Whether you are building an extension, retrofitting your house or starting from scratch, and whether you are new to low-energy design or already have some experience, this book will help you navigate around the potential pitfalls and misconceptions. It brings together current thinking and best practice. The book includes a clear explanation of the underlying building physics and terminology, as well as detailed information on key elements of Passivhaus: avoiding air leakage, designing thermal (cold) bridges, moisture management and ventilation strategy. There is also lots of practical advice on setting up a project, including developing a motivated project team, and a discussion of economic considerations and the policy context in the UK. As pressure on global resources increases and energy prices continue to rise, the Passivhaus approach, proven over 20 years, meets the challenge of ultra-low-energy building for the future.

Book Promoting Social and Emotional Learning

Download or read book Promoting Social and Emotional Learning written by Maurice J. Elias and published by ASCD. This book was released on 1997 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors draw upon scientific studies, theories, site visits, nd their own extensive experiences to describe approaches to social and emotional learning for all levels.