House Styles, Building Types and Design Idea Books

A Field Guide to American Houses House Styles in America The New Cottage Home Arts and Crafts Shingle Styles Cabin Fever: Rustic Style Comes Home Country Houses of France Charleston Style Porch Style Prairie Style Outside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Garden

• A Field Guide to American Houses
  - by Virginia McAlester, Lee McAlester, Lauren Jarrett
  An easy to use, and very comprehensive book that contains black and white photographs of hundreds of houses, which are located all around the United States. From the 17th century to the present, virtually every major house style is shown and described.

• House Styles in America: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of American Homes - by James C. Massey, Shirley Maxwell

• Adirondack Style
  - by Ann S. O'Leary
  Bears witness to the long and interesting history of New York State's northeastern corner, from the splint basketry and bark sheathing used by the native people, the furs and skins so prized by the earliest white traders, the thick walls built by the French soldiers eager to protect their North American strongholds, and the unpeeled log structures of early lumberjacks.

• Alpine Interiors/Alpen Interieurs/Interieurs Des Alpes - by Beate Wedekind, Angelika Taschen (Editor), Isabel Varea (Translator)

• Arts and Crafts (Architecture and Design Library) - by Kitty Turgeon, Robert Rust (Contributor)

• Arts and Crafts Home - by Kitty Turgeon, Robert Rust

• In the Arts & Crafts Style - by Barbara Mayer, Rob Gray (Photographer), Elaine Hirschl Ellis

• Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s - by Patricia Bayer

• Art Deco Style - by Bevis Hillier, Stephen Escritt

• The New Cottage Home - by Jim Tolpin

• The Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Home
  - by Paul Duchscherer, Douglas Keister
  Great source of inspiration for anyone who is considering doing any sort of architectural project, either interior or exterior, with and Arts and Crafts feeling.

• American Bungalow Style - by Alexander Vertikoff (Photographer), Robert Milton Winter

• Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Interior - by Paul Duchscherer, Douglas Keister (Photographer)

• Bungalow Kitchens - by Jane Powell, Linda Svendsen (Photographer)

• Radford's Artistic Bungalows: The Complete 1908 Catalog - by Radford Architectural Company

• California Bungalows of the Twenties by Henry L. Wilson

• 100 Turn-Of-The-Century Brick Bungalows With Floor Plans - by Rogers, Manson

• Outside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Garden - by Paul Duchscherer, Douglas Keister (Photographer)

• Craftsman Bungalows: 59 Homes from the Craftsman - by Gustav Stickley

• More Craftsman Homes - by Gustav Stickley

• Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Furnishings of the American Arts and Crafts Movement - by Gustav Stickley

• Classic Meets Contemporary - by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill

• Country Houses of France - by Barbara Stoeltie, Rene Stoeltie, Angelika Taschen (Editor)

• Country Houses of England - by Barbara Stoeltie, Rene Stoeltie, Angelika Taschen (Editor)

• Cabin Fever: Rustic Style Comes Home - by Rachel Carley

• The Log Home Book: Design, Past and Present - by Cindy Teipner Thiede, Arthur Thiede, Jonathan Stoke (Photographer)

• Porch Style - by Barbara Ballinger Buchholz, Lisa Skolnik

• Bali Style - by Barbara Walker (Contributor), Rio Helmi (Photographer)

• Bali Modern: The Art of Tropical Living - by Gianni Francione, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni (Photographer)

• Tropical Asian Style
  - by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Kim Inglis, Gianni Francione, William Warren
  Gorgeous color photos of homes from Chiang Mai to Kuala Lumpur demonstrate essential design elements: living spaces open to nature, and accents of wood, textiles, and earthenware.

  Tropical Asian Style

  Casa California

  Desert Style

• The New Asian Architecture: Vernacular Traditions and Contemporary Style - by William S. W. Lim, Tan Hock Beng

• California Beach Houses: Style, Interiors, and Architecture - by Pilar Viladas, Mark Darley (Photographer)

• Charleston Style: Past and Present - by Susan Sully, John Blais (Photographer), Josephine Humphreys

• American Colonial: Puritan Simplicity to Georgian Grace - by Wendell Garrett, Paul Rocheleau (Photographer)

• Classic America: The Federal Style & Beyond - by Wendell Garrett, Paul Rocheleau (Photographer), David Larkin (Editor)

• Classic Georgian Style - by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, Andreas Von Einsiedel (Photographer)

• Great Georgian Houses of America (Volume 2)

• Desert Style - by Mary Whitesides

• Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente
  - by Elizabeth Jean McMillian, Melba Levick, David Gebhard
  Twenty-one private homes built between 1922 and 1991 in South California's eclectic and individualistic Hispanic mission and Mediterranean revival styles are vividly captured in this resplendent work. The book transcends Sunset Magazine-style coverage through a learned foreword by David Gebhard and an informative introduction by former Architectural Digest editor McMillian, who also supplies captions and one- to two-page introductions to each home.

• Mexican Country Style - by Karen Witynski, Joe P. Carr

• The New Hacienda - by Karen Witynski, Joe P. Carr, W. Scott Mitchell

• Italian Style - by Jane Gordon-Clark, Simon Upton (Photographer)

• Mediterranean Style: Relaxed Living Inspired by Strong Colors and Natural Materials
  - by Catherine Haig
  Vibrant photos and detailed, practical text explore all the elements of the look and explain what to do with your own walls and floors, windows and doors, furnishings and accessories to re-create the look of Mediterranean Style.

• Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses (Wright at a Glance Series) - by Carla Lind, Frank Lloyd Wright

• Safari Style
  - by Tim Beddow, Natasha Burns
  Blending ethnic African with colonial European, the look emphasizes relaxed yet luxurious living, drawing on an elemental approach to texture, color, and pattern, and on indigenous materials and design.

• The Shingle Style Today: Or, the Historian's Revenge - by Vincent Joseph Scully

• Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory & Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright - by Vincent, Jr. Scully

• Shingle Styles: Innovation and Tradition in American Architecture 1874 to 1982 - by Leland M. Roth, Bret Morgan (Photographer)

• Tuscany Interiors/Interieurs De Toscane/Toskana Interieurs - by Paolo Rinaldi

• Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses (Wright at a Glance Series) - by Carla Lind

• Victorian House Designs in Authentic Full Color: 75 Plates from the 'Scientific American-Architects and Builders Edition,' 1885-1894 - by Blanche Cirker (Editor)

• Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: 734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices and Other Elements - by William T. Comstock (Photographer)

• Bicknell's Victorian Buildings: Floor Plans and Elevations for 45 Houses and Other Structures - by A. J. Bicknell

• Lofts: Living in Space - by Orianna Fielding Banks, Rebecca Tanqueray

• Lofts: Living and Working Spaces - by Fransisco Ascensio Cerver

• Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living - by Felicia Eisenber Molnar

• Second Home: Find Your Place in the Fun - by Better Homes and Gardens (Editor)