Stone Built - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone Built write by Lee Goff. This book was released on 1997. Stone Built available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents twenty-seven contemporary residences, spanning the entire stylistic spectrum and thoroughly documented with color photography. The United States has always had a great number of stone houses, subject to regional and stylistic variations, as author Lee Goff writes in her comprehensive introduction. That history and variety are alive today, as houses of stone continue to appear in myriad guises - classical, modern, vernacular, postmodern - throughout the country. In fact, Goff concludes that a new renaissance of stone houses is at hand. The exceptional residences in this book, by such renowned architects as Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, Will Bruder, 1100 Architect, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Lake/Flato, and Kohn Pedersen Fox, provide ample evidence of this renaissance. Goff discusses with each architect the design of each house, focusing on the decision to use stone, the building process, and other related choices, while color photographs illustrate both exteriors and interiors.
The House That Death Built
The House That Death Built - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House That Death Built write by Mel Stone. This book was released on 2020-07-07. The House That Death Built available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A would-be spinster. A dashing stranger. And a secret that will bind them forever... Joy Horton is comfortable and content in her job as village seamstress. She lives a simple life with her family and is determined never to marry, for fear of passing on her strange handicap to any offspring. When the brash and impulsive Arthur Marco steps into her little shop for a repair, he immediately brings color and chaos into Joy's ordered life. Their exchanges are spirited and flirtatious, but while Joy hasn't changed her mind about marriage, Arthur is certain she will bring him happiness. Arthur has already lived a life of sorrow. After all, he's already buried a wife under what some consider to be suspicious circumstances. But after so much misery, doesn't a man deserve to be happy? As Arthur's past comes to light, Joy realizes a union could spell disaster for them both. Are his intentions as simple as they seem? Or is Joy unwittingly playing a part in a more sinister plan? It seems Arthur will do anything to keep Joy away from his family's legacy of death. Anything but stay away from her. The House That Death Built is a thrilling fantasy-romance novel that will have readers turning pages at a breathless pace. SCROLL UP AND GRAB YOUR COPY TODAY!
Stone Men
Stone Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone Men write by Andrew Ross. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Stone Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards “They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some of the best-quality limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except one of their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabricating, and dressing is the Occupied Territories’ largest private employer and generator of revenue, and supplies the construction industry in Israel, along with other countries in the region and overseas. Ross’s engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating ancient trade shows how the stones of historic Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build the state of Israel—in the process, constructing “facts on the ground”—even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For more than a century, the hands that built Israel’s houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestinian–Israeli conflict in a new light, this book, largely based on field interviews in the region, asks how this record of labor and achievement can and should be recognized.
Built from Stone
Built from Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Built from Stone write by Layne deMarin. This book was released on 2012-07. Built from Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Simple text and color photos present how stone is used to build many kinds of structures.
Stone by Stone
Stone by Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone by Stone write by Robert Thorson. This book was released on 2009-05-26. Stone by Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
