Writing 120: Finding Home

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2014 | American Homes is the classic work of American house architecture. From the Dutch colonial, to the New England Salt Box, to the 1950s prefab, this unrivaled reference guide to 103 building styles pays homage to America's housing heritage.

Revised Edition | Overlook Press, 1997. Diagrams trace the development of American house styles from the Indian longhouse to a proposed space settlement and indicate characteristic features of each design.

2nd American Edition | Norton, 2010. Featuring more than one hundred of the most significant and influential buildings of the twentieth century, this second edition has been expanded and updated to include new buildings from the early part of the twenty-first century and work by architects who have risen to increasing international prominence.

Dover, 2007 | Featuring blueprints, sketches, plus exterior and interior photographs, here are the finest examples of 1930s country homes from 70 different architectural firms.

Conran Octopus, 2016 | From Pop Art to Op Art, plastic furniture to bubble-gum paint colours, the Sixties saw a new wave of interior design that was closely linked to popular culture and fashion. The second title in the Decades of Design series.

Conran Octopus, 2014 | The post-war consumer boom of the 1950s, coupled with a desire for new, innovative design resulted in one of the most exciting decades in the history of interiors - a visual revolution that was captured on the pages of British House & Garden. The first title in the Decades of Design series.

Various publishers, 2007-2010 | Includes volumes on freestanding houses, town houses, row houses, and courtyard houses.

Dover, 2007 | Designed for families with "limited budgets but unlimited good taste," here are 56 floor plans and elevations of houses that originally cost less than $15,000 to build.

Reaktion, 2013 | Telling the story of one of the world's greatest feats of engineering and mass production, Bathroom follows the room's evolution and the lifestyle it enables. Considering how and why the bathroom emerged, Barbara Penner describes how it became an international symbol of key modern values such as cleanliness, order, and progress.

Yale, 2018 | Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell.

Bloomsbury, 2008 | The Warmest Room in the House explores food trends and technology, kitchen design, appliances and furniture, china and flatware, and much more. Steven Gdula traces the evolution of the kitchen from the back room where the work of the home happened to its place at the center of family life and entertainment today.