Architecture

Schiffer Publishing has produced more than 200 high-end illustrated books on architecture, landscape architecture, art, and interior design. Showcasing the best in contemporary book packaging, these substantive works celebrate how we live, what we build, and the environments that inspire and sustain us.

We also have a long tradition of helping creatives share their body of work with the world. We delight in partnering with thought leaders, focusing on exquisite layouts, quality paper and printing, and special cover treatments that result in one-of-a-kind books. If you have a concept you would like to bring to the public, contact us. We’ll be proud to make it happen.

Landscape Design for Architectural Style

$49.99

This thorough guide, the second of two volumes, displays and discusses American original architecture, including Pueblo, Spanish Revival, Ranch, Cabin, Craftsman, Prairie, Cape Cod, and the Mediterranean influence. Over 320 beautiful, color photos and 96 line drawings illustrate possibilities and...

Houses of New Orleans

$24.99

Soak in a little New Orleans history while enjoying a visual tour of her homes. Known for beauty and style, New Orleans delivers as much in its architecture, even the simple shotgun houses in working neighborhoods. Houses of the Garden...

Landscape Design for Architectural Style

$49.99

This thorough guide, the second of two volumes, displays and discusses American original architecture, including Pueblo, Spanish Revival, Ranch, Cabin, Craftsman, Prairie, Cape Cod, and the Mediterranean influence. Over 320 beautiful, color photos and 96 line drawings illustrate possibilities and...

Louisville Architectural Tours

$14.99

Visit Louisville, Kentucky’s historic districts, replete with antebellum and Victorian homes that will take your breath away. Immerse yourself in Southern charm and the culture of a bygone era by taking a walking tour through some of the most beautiful...

Historic Slate Roofs

$24.99

The National Slate Association compiled a comprehensive overview of slate roofs in 1926, covering everything from characteristics and important data with regard to slate and the specifics of construction. This book gets an update here, with contemporary color images of...

Historic Log Cabins

$34.99

An incredible collection of imagery takes you on a tour of old and new log homes, offering restorers and new homebuilders alike a chance to recreate architectural traditions in a home for today's family. There's inspiration for every room inside,...

Pavers 101

$19.99

Includes a wonderful circular patio centered around a firepit, to a demonstration walkway that illustrates how to lay basketweave, running brick, and herringbone patterns, this book is the perfect resource for anyone who wants to undertake a great home improvement...

Towers, Turrets, Cupolas, & Belvederes

$34.99

With 470 eye-catching color photos and informative text, readers are taken on a cross-country tour of towers, turrets, cupolas, and belvederes found on homes, churches, and barns dating from the nineteenth through the early twenty-first century. Towers are often landmarks...

Building Dry-Stack Stone Walls

$29.99

A dry-stack stonewall is a project that almost anyone can build, and it will last well over a century if built correctly. Like most projects, knowing all of the steps involved is critical to ensure a safe and solid job....

Windpower

$24.99

Wind energy is today's most developed form of "green" power on the planet. This comprehensive survey examines the history of wind power, from early peoples’ technology to harness the wind for basic mechanical tasks (such as turning grain to flour)...

Natural Building

$24.99

This brilliant book combines the wisdom of a great reference tool with the wonder of an inspiration guidebook. Basics in foundations, framing, wall systems, and roofs are explored through the shared experiences of teachers, students, and seekers who came together...

The Passive Solar Primer

$29.99

Architect David Wright helped pioneer the concept of passive solar architecture, and his thoughts and experiments have helped shape the evolution of solar design throughout the world. His years of exploration are distilled in this comprehensive book, which provides simple...

New Orleans and Its Environs

$24.99

New Orleans was a melting pot of Spanish and French culture, in a climate that forced a uniquely American architecture. More than 260 images present the wide verandahs, hipped and gabled roofs, neo-classical sensibilities, and lavish iron lacework that give...

Painted Ladies: Balusters & Columns

$29.99

605 color images show the wide variety and creative ways balusters and columns were used to enhance the homes in historic Oak Bluffs and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. This photo archive of ornate Victorian details will assist in the restoration of...

Green Homes

$39.99

Building a green home or redesigning an existing home to be green is more than energy efficiency and preservation of natural resources. It is about integrating cost-effective design and materials to better the well being of inhabitants. Explore the many...

Modern American Homes

$29.99

In 1913, a Chicago architect compiled this wonderful portfolio of American homes and buildings that he said embodied "the back to nature" movement of the times. Today, this faithful reprint is a treasure of Craftsman bungalow and Prairie house styles,...

Cedar Style

$40.00

Take a tour of high-end log homes in this inspiring compendium. Photographer Roger Wade focuses on the finer features of 25 very fine log homes found throughout the United States. More than 200 full-color photographs and detailed floor plans act...

Great Kitchens

$29.99

The dreamiest kitchens are presented in this collection of over 325 exquisite photographs. Hundreds of custom features are shown from award-winning kitchens by the nation's best manufacturers. This visual library of ideas includes examples of storage solutions, unusual surfaces and...

Painted Ladies: Corbels & Gingerbread

$29.99

605 color images show the wide variety and creative ways balusters and columns were used to enhance the homes in historic Oak Bluffs and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. This photo archive of ornate Victorian details will assist in the restoration of...

San Miguel's Mexican Exteriors

$39.99

San Miguel de Allende, a city located in central Mexico, is steeped in history and old world charm. Many of its elegant buildings have been preserved and it is practically a museum of Spanish and Mexican history and architecture. This...

Spanish Gardens & Patios

$30.00

Mildred and Arthur Byne explored exceptional Spanish gardens in the 1920s, sketching and photographing them in order to share design ideas with fellow enthusiasts in the United States. They focused on glazed polychrome tiles and green foliage as the the...

Outdoor Kitchens & Fireplaces

$19.95

Outdoor living is heating up the marketplace today, and more and more people take their leisure time outdoors. Toward that end, they’re bringing the kitchen with them, along with a blazing fire to warm and illuminate their yards into the...

Making Concrete Countertops with Buddy Rhodes

$39.99

The companion volume to Making Concrete Countertops with Buddy Rhodes, this book details the art and craft of creating vertical concrete applications as well as integral sink and drainboard elements and curved-edge counters, for advanced users of the medium. An...

Award-winning Green Roof Designs

$39.99

Over 100 beautiful, informative photos display the green roofs technology that is quickly becoming a fundamental element of the emerging practice of living architecture. The award-winning roof designs displayed and described, for private homes, businesses, and public spaces alike, integrate...

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