Books
The Tallest Lighthouses of the World
An Architect's Coloring Book for Grownups and Kids, Too
The Tallest Lighthouses of the World takes you on a journey to 13 country to see the 28 big guys. A map of the world shows you where these lighthouses are located, and diagrams show you lighthouse parts and styles. After you've read the captions, you can color each page as you go along, with crayons of better yet, Prismacolor pencils. Have a great time!
Lighthouses of the Great Lakes
An Architect's Sketchbook
Illustrated with more than 500 sketches, drawings, maps, and diagrams, this book takes you on road trips around the Great Lakes. It's the story of lighthouse building on the lakes and the lighthouse establishment plus descriptions of how lighthouses and their components work as well as the story of other players like keepers and tenders.
Praise
"I don't recall anything like this book. It's a thoroughly original and delightful combination of whimsical sketchbook, personal journal, and pertinent history highlights. This is the perfect coffee table book. It can be picked up and opened to any page at random, resulting in instant enchantment."
—Jeremy D'Entremont, Historian, United States Lighthouse Society
Capture the Moment
An Architect's Guide to Travel Sketching
With sketches form around the world, this book takes you on a journey starting with the definition of sketching from observation and an introduction to right-brain drawing. You get a discussion of black and white and color sketching with a focus on colored pencil as an easy-to-use medium. Perspective drawing is demystified and you then take side trips to understand shade and shadow, reflections, landscapes, streetscapes, sky and skyline. This book presents the fundamentals of rapid colored pencil sketching to “capture the moment” for designers and for travelers who have always wanted to draw the notable places they visit.
Praise
"A book that reflects the faster pace of modern life. As its title conveys, he shows us how to 'Capture the Moment' in quick sketches that depict the places we visit."
—Thomas Fisher, Director, Minnesota Design Center, College of Design, University of Minnesota
Barns of the St. Croix Valley
An Architect's Sketchbook
Illustrated with 200 barn sketches, diagrams, and maps, Barns of the St Croix Valley: An Architect’s Sketchbook takes you on a journey through the St Croix River Valley. With research from more than 40 sources, the colorful history of the St Croix Valley is unlocked. The book grounds you in the geography, geology, and biology of the region and introduces you to the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples, European explorers, fur traders, loggers, the settlers that followed them, and the history of farming in the Valley. It honors regional diversity and architectural expression through the vernacular architecture of a single type of building—the barn.
Praise
"Lammers' book proclaims rural and agricultural heritage in a way that photographs of the barns would not express. He has done extensive research and writes about the development of barns along with many accessory structures. No book illustrates the power of sketching better than this one."
—Dewey Thorbeck, Professor and Founder, Center for Rural Design, University of Minnesota
Barn Coloring Book
Barns stand as a testament to a bygone era. To the way farming used to be. On working farms old barns are put to use, but not as originally intended, which was for storing hay in the haymow and cows or cattle and young stock below. Many return to earth, little by little, until one day the barn you’ve been driving by is now flat, marked only by a silo.