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Architecture: Home Plans

Windsor Public Library has a good collection of books dealing with the subject of House/Home Plans, from budget homes to luxury estates and everything in between:

Listed below are the websites of companies that publish some of the books in our collection dealing with home plans:

• Home Styles
• HomePlanners is now EPlans
• Family Home Plans
• The Slow Home

Architecture and Sustainable Design

• Architects without Borders, Canada
• Architecture for Humanity
• Canada Green Building Council. Resources
• Canada. Public Works and Government Services. , Dept. of National Defense, and Natural Resources Canada. Green Globes Design.
• Green Roof
• U.S. Green Home Building Council. The Green Home Guide.

Landscape Architecture:

• City of Toronto. Xeriscaping.
• Energy Efficient Landscape design
• Green Roofs
• Landscape Ontario. Water Garden Design.
• Marjorie Mason Hogue. Landscape Ontario.Xeriscaping, not Zeroscaping.
• Wikipedia's huge page of Landscape Architecture links

Magazines:

• Architectural Record: Location Central Library, reference only, paper: current year only; past years on microfilm.
• ArchitectureWeek. Hundreds of subject links, history, style, climate, green architecture etc..
• Garden Design. Published by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Circulating copies only at Central Library.

Magazine and journal articles as well as encyclopedia essays on architectural studies topics can be found using these electronic subscriptions.

Also check these sources for new reports about architects or architectural companies.