House Plans Can Help Make Passive Design Solutions Go Mainstream. Natalie Leonard expands the market with affordable plans designed to the Passive House US standard.

True house pattern books, focused more on design and layout than construction, would become more common in the mid and late 19th century. While hunting through some period architecture books we ran ...

I have owned a copy of the 1965 Small House Design book for many years, and have always been impressed with the houses. My late mother-in-law lived in one of them, and having grown up downtown in ...

The Western Solar Farmhouse: Passive Solar House Plans Dick and Becky Myers wanted to do more than just add a few passive solar elements to their new home — they wanted to be energy independent.