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.

Designing for Disaster

$34.99

A comprehensive look at 16 cutting-edge homes designed to resist the forces of earth, wind, fire, and water The climate is changing, and so must domestic architecture. Premium materials—brick, stone, wood—and timeless design used to be the key to building homes...

Americana

$39.99

Set between the sound and the sea, Long Island is home to some of America’s most intriguing country houses. This book highlights the best examples, telling the story of each through outstanding contemporary color photography. The dwellings, which began as...

Housing and the City

$45.00

Architect Daniel Solomon's account of the century-long struggle between two antithetical models by which cities accommodate working people, immigrants, and the poor.  Housing is a matter of great urgency around the world. In cities that drive technological change and staggering...

Christmas by Design

$45.00

What would Christmas be without lights, color, greenery, and glitter? Join leading professional designers on a tour of well-appointed private residences dressed in their festive best. The one-of-a-kind decorating schemes are a study in the art of using scale, shape,...

Ponce City Market

$45.00

History, industry, and architecture come alive in this book documenting the six-year transformation of one of the Southeast's largest buildings into a mixed-use civic anchor in 2016. The cavernous Sears, Roebuck and Company distribution and retail center, erected in 1925,...

Sempervivum

$34.99

Sempervivum have long fascinated gardeners and are useful plants for gardening situations in which other plants might fail. Many people are aware of only a single, rather uninteresting green cultivar, but selections from the wild and the work of hybridizers...

Villages of West Africa

$65.00

An original study of remote villages in seven West Africa countries by two accomplished architects, and a celebration the artisanship of tribal people who use building methods that are both practical and ingenious. Art, and especially architecture, are often seen...

Anatomy of a Great Home

$50.00

What award-winning homes, from urban to rural, tell us about the way we aspire to live. What elevates a house to best-of-class status? Find out in this insider's look at more than fifty award-winning homes designed by nearly three dozen...

Heavy Timber Structures

$45.00

Explore the physiological and aesthetic benefits of heavy timber construction in public spaces through 35 case studies, including health care facilities, houses of worship, zoos,  museums, and more.  In the triumvirate of dominant structural building materials—wood, metal, and masonry—each has...

Modern Masters

$50.00

More than seventy sensational properties showcase the talents of some of the world's most innovative modernist architects. Many of the homes are built on challenging sites, reaching levels of engineering sophistication that could only have been executed by the most...

The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania

$50.00

An illustrated look at the barns in southeastern Pennsylvania ("the hearth"), including design, construction, dating, and use of barns with a diversity of architectural forms. For anyone who has ever admired a barn on an old country lane, this is...

Plain Meetinghouses

$34.99

Old Order Mennonites are deeply faithful, agrarian-rooted, Swiss-German Anabaptists who have called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home for 300 years. Their meetinghouses silently embody their religious traditions, and yet few outsiders have seen the startling utilitarian beauty of these rural structures...

Contemporary Texas Architecture

$50.00

A long-overdue book documenting a state with a growing population, this richly illustrated collection of homes displays the work of 34 Texas architects whose buildings embrace their region and place. These award-winning residences vary in style, scale, budget, and site,...

WPA Buildings

$45.00

In this fully illustrated, well-documented study, a historically underappreciated, uniquely American style gets its due. This survey explores the often-overlooked social impact of imposing government buildings in American cities, large and small, that were funded by the Works Progress Administration...

Small Dreams

$14.99

Jeffrey Milstein is fascinated with how similar forms repeat themselves in distinctive ways. Here, he examines classic Palm Springs trailer park homes, each composed of the same basic units—the box-like "house," the flanking carport, and the patio shelter. Photographing each...

Condo Makeovers

$34.99

Condo renovations by twenty-one architects and interior designers showcase the best of vertical living. For those interested in creating a one-of-a-kind home in a condo or apartment building, this book offers a voyeuristic peek at the way people design, construct,...

Branding + Interior Design

$29.99

The home goods market in the United States is the largest market in the world. So why do some interior design firms thrive while others barely survive? The answer lies in one powerful little word: brand. More than a pretty...

Christmas at Designers' Homes across America

$45.00

Delve into a captivating compendium of holiday enchantment as you embark on a visual journey through nearly 400 resplendent color images. Immerse yourself in the breathtaking holiday realms that eminent designers have meticulously crafted within the intimate confines of their...

Tree Houses Reimagined

$45.00

28 imaginative tree houses, ranging from kids' fantasy play areas to family retreats and adult hideaways in the UK-based Blue Forest.  Enter the world of fairy-tale towers, whimsical stairways, crow's nests, zip lines, and suspended rope bridges. Take pleasure in...

A Guide to Building Natural Swimming Pools

$49.99

This book is specifically designed for those interested in creating natural swimming pools. It covers all stages, from understanding the system, management, excavation, lining, walling, plumbing, electrical, planting, structures, and last but not least, the maintenance, to ensure a successful...

Dream Houses on the Water

$50.00

30 charismatic, exclusive, and sometimes eccentric houses built along oceans, lakes, and fjords, documented with plans and diagrams.  How do architects treat the drama of water and nature? Do they defer to it with a simple dwelling that grows out...

The Shaker Legacies

$34.99

Dozens of beautiful photos, both vintage and contemporary, draw us into the fascinating world of Shaker communities’ accomplishments, their progressive views, and their still-resonating impact on American life. This book focuses specifically on two Shaker villages, Hancock and Mount Lebanon,...

Contemporary Home Design

$60.00

From the modern, flat-roofed concrete home to an energy-independent cob-walled house in the countryside, this guide shows seventy single-family homes that showcase the best of contemporary design. Each home is identified in terms of eight design considerations, including challenging lots,...

Heritage Gardens, Heirloom Seeds

$34.99

A detailed overview of the inter-relationship between heirloom seeds and heritage gardens, richly illustrated with over 650 images, many of rare, historical importance. Heritage, or traditional, gardens and heirloom seeds are joined at the hip, but previous books have separated...

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