 | Double-Skin Facades: Integrated Planning (Architecture) by Eberhard Oesterle
Buy used from: $1,268.59 Cost justified only in problem (noisy) locations. Highly technical and no fun to read.
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 | Renovation: A Complete Guide (Updated 2nd Edition) by Michael Litchfield
Buy used from: $3.45 Author went on to found Fine Homebuilding. Very well written.
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 | Traditional Details: For Building Restoration, Renovation, and Rehabilitation : From the 1932-1951 Editions of Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles George Ramsey
Buy new: $73.13 / Used from: $49.49 No substitute for modern version. All hand lettered.
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 | The Stone Skeleton: Structural Engineering of Masonry Architecture by Jacques Heyman
Buy new: $33.29 / Used from: $30.10 For structural engineers only. Esoteric.
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 | Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes by George Nash
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $11.03 Antidote for all those other picture-perfect Taunton books. Amateur pics of old, cheap, decomposing houses. For other remodelers, mostly.
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 | Creative Brickwork (Civil Engineering Series) by Terry Knight
Buy used from: $93.40 A good technical survey and how-to with many photos of British examples.
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 | BDA Guide to Successful Brickwork, Second Edition by The Brick Development Association
Buy used from: $4.22 For students, so a little pedantic; good illustrations, a compilation of several authors.
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 | Masonry and Concrete by Christine Beall
Buy new: $43.95 / Used from: $19.98 Ok. For residential builders, not advanced, but sufficient. And cheap!
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 | Fundamentals of Residential Construction by Edward Allen
Buy used from: $22.99 Substantial overlap with Fundamentals of Building Construction, including many of the same pictures.
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 | Architectural Detailing: Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics by Edward Allen
Buy used from: $14.48 Well-to-do Edward Allen fans only. Not much here.
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 | Interior Construction & Detailing for Designers and Architects by David Kent Ballast
Buy used from: $6.90 Commercial version of interior construction. Dry but competent. Cheap paper.
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 | Energy-Efficient Building (Best of Fine Homebuilding) by Editors of Fine Homebuilding
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.12 A scattered approach. Better off with the Builder's Guide to ...books by Lstiburek.
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 | Do-It-Yourself Housebuilding: The Complete Handbook by George Nash
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.72 Comprehensive rustic home instructions. Even tells how to build a road to it.
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 | How to Plan, Subcontract and Build Your Dream House: Everything You Need to Know to Avoid the Pitfalls by Warren V. Jaeger
Buy used from: $9.91 Lots of info from experienced builder. Awful spelling but fun to read.
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 | The Healthy House : How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure a sick one, 4th revised ed. by John Bower
Buy used from: $1.94 Basically sound, but also kind of extreme; many useful addresses.
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 | Stone Setting: The Setting of Cut-Stone Trim for Brick Buildings by G. A. McGarvey
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $26.05 |
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