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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 20 times as building)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,454 ratings — published 1977
Building Our House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as building)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,319 ratings — published 2013
Lee & Low Books Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as building)
avg rating 4.11 — 620 ratings — published 1996
Iggy Peck, Architect: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
by (shelved 16 times as building)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,429 ratings — published 2007
Billions of Bricks: A Counting Book About Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as building)
avg rating 3.72 — 675 ratings — published 2016
The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as building)
avg rating 4.45 — 583 ratings — published 1990
Someone Builds the Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as building)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,458 ratings — published 2021
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as building)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,670 ratings — published 1978
The Little Red Fort (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as building)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,196 ratings — published 2018
Everything You Need For a Treehouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as building)
avg rating 3.82 — 961 ratings — published 2018
Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide To Alternative Building Methods - Earth Plaster, Straw Bale, Cordwood, Cob, Living Roofs (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as building)
avg rating 4.14 — 269 ratings — published 2005
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as building)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,583 ratings — published 1997
Bigger! Bigger! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as building)
avg rating 3.51 — 280 ratings — published
Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
by (shelved 8 times as building)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,917 ratings — published 2013
Boxitects (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as building)
avg rating 4.12 — 941 ratings — published 2020
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 7 times as building)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,894 ratings — published 2014
If I Built a House (If I Built Series)
by (shelved 7 times as building)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,926 ratings — published 2012
Construction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as building)
avg rating 4.00 — 684 ratings — published 2014
Stanley the Builder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as building)
avg rating 3.72 — 390 ratings — published 2014
Roundwood Timber Framing: Building Naturally Using Local Resources (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as building)
avg rating 4.07 — 45 ratings — published 2010
What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,484 ratings — published 2020
Brick by Brick (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.11 — 432 ratings — published
If I Built a School (If I Built Series)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,626 ratings — published 2019
Building Books (Library Binding)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 3.69 — 344 ratings — published 2018
Builders and Breakers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 3.41 — 305 ratings — published 2018
The Rabbit Listened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,204 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.08 — 71 ratings — published 2001
Compact Cabins: Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 3.81 — 446 ratings — published 2009
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,095 ratings — published 1998
Building with Cob: A Step-by-step Guide (Sustainable Building)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.31 — 118 ratings — published 2006
The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as building)
avg rating 4.28 — 336 ratings — published
Again, Essie? (Storytelling Math)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.90 — 217 ratings — published
Carpenter's Helper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.81 — 305 ratings — published 2021
Learn to Timber Frame: Craftsmanship, Simplicity, Timeless Beauty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.34 — 164 ratings — published 2016
Builder Brothers: Big Plans (Builder Brothers)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.97 — 244 ratings — published 2018
Rocket Mass Heaters: Superefficient Woodstoves YOU Can Build (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.31 — 153 ratings — published 2004
This House, Once (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,114 ratings — published 2017
Mighty, Mighty Construction Site (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,834 ratings — published 2017
A Timber Framer's Workshop: Joinery & Design Essentials for Building Traditional Timber Frames (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.34 — 56 ratings — published 1998
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,707 ratings — published 1978
Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House: Revised and Updated (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.13 — 101 ratings — published 2002
Library Mouse: Home Sweet Home (Library Mouse, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.88 — 405 ratings — published 2013
Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter (The Shelter Library of Building Books)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.16 — 724 ratings — published 2012
Demolition (Construction Crew)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,098 ratings — published 2012
Bang! Boom! Roar! A Busy Crew of Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.62 — 296 ratings — published 2012
The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 3.98 — 298 ratings — published 1978
The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as building)
avg rating 4.21 — 141 ratings — published 1998
“Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up”
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“I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two-mile road gave me internal peace.”
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