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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures

By: Roma Agrawal

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: February 2018

Seller ID: 252911

ISBN: 1635570220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Castles: Their Construction and History (Dover Architecture)

By: Toy, Sidney

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: December 1985

Seller ID: 270158

ISBN: 0486248984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Concise, scholarly survey traces castle development from ancient roots in the Levant, through Roman times and the Middle Ages. Nearly 200 photographs and drawings illustrate moats, keeps, baileys, and many other features. Covers Caernarvon Castle and Dover castle, Hadrian's Wall, the Tower of London, and dozens more. 199 black-and-white illustrations. Preface. Index. Footnotes.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

By: SOL KLICZKOWSKI, ERIC THORBURN

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Te Neues Pub Group: November 2002

Seller ID: 73150

ISBN: 3823855433

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow 1868-Londres 1928), Scottish architect and designer, had a great influence on twentieth century architecture and decoration. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art but soon abandoned the affected Victorian style to embrace one based on simplicity and geometrical shapes. The project for the Glasgow School of Art (1897-1899) established his reputation. This rationalist building juxtaposes long, delicate curves against its rectangular structure; it was extended by adding a library (1907-1909). Mackintosh is also famous for his interior design and furniture ...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers (The MIT Press)

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: MIT Press: January 1990

Seller ID: 247000

ISBN: 0262181428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The impact of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) on the international arts and crafts movement and on the evolution of architectural development is well documented. According to Mies van der Rohe he was "a purifier in the world of architecture, " who also viewed architecture as intimately engaged with the decorative arts. This first publication of Mackintosh's only known architectural writings brings a fresh perspective to understanding the enigmatic genius of this twentieth-century pioneer.The six lecture scripts and a diary of Mackintosh's study trip to Italy span the years 1891 to 1902, ...
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Chartres Cathedral - Hb English

By: Malcolm Miller

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Pitkin Publishing: February 1996

Seller ID: 243846

ISBN: 0853727376

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Chicago's Famous Buildings A Photographic Guide to the City's Architectural Landmarks and Other Notable Buildings

By: Ira J. (editor) Bach

Price: $7.98

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: January 1980

Seller ID: 247423

ISBN: 0226033961

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Chinese Architecture.

By: Laurence G. LIU

Price: $54.00

Publisher: Academy: January 1989

Seller ID: 179713

ISBN: 0856709808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Color Book

By: JILL BLAKE, MARTIN CHAFFER

Price: $24.95

Publisher: N/A: September 1997

Seller ID: 3804

ISBN: 0811818721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Change the color of a room's walls, floor, or ceiling, and the mood changes dramatically. Color can soothe or energize; make a space seem larger or more intimate; and transform ambiance -- all for a fraction of what other renovations cost. Experienced designers know what effect a change in color will have, but for most of us, repainting is something of a gamble. No longer. With "The Color Book" in hand, anyone can instandy see what a living room will look like with taupe walls, maple floors, and a sage ceiling, for example. More an essential design and decor tool than a book, this innovative g...
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Concrete: A Seven-Thousand-Year History

By: Reese Palley

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press: October 2010

Seller ID: 164247

ISBN: 1593720394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

new copy but bottom edges worn from packaging
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Conversations (Art Random)

By: N/A

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Kyoto Shoin: December 1990

Seller ID: 109495

ISBN: 4763685716

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pasges unmarked, nick in cover on spine.
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Conversations with Frank Gehry

By: Barbara Isenberg

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Knopf: April 2009

Seller ID: 218888

ISBN: 0307268004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world's most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights into the man and his work. Gehry's subjects range from his childhood--when he first built cities with wooden blocks on the floor of his grandmother's kitchen--to his relationships with clients and his definition of a "great" client. We learn about his architectural influences (including Le Corbu...
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

By: William McDonough, Michael Braungart

Price: $19.98

Publisher: North Point Press: April 2002

Seller ID: 111915

ISBN: 0865475873

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural wo...
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Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities

By: Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett

Price: $32.95

Publisher: New Society Publishers: May 2011

Seller ID: 110282

ISBN: 0865716722

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes have turned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village--family, cooperation, community, and a sense of belonging--within the context of twenty-first century life?Now fully revised and updated, "Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities" is an in-depth exploration of a uniquely rewarding type of housing which is perfect for anyone who values their independence but longs for more connection with those around them. Written by the award-winning team that wrote the original "co...
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Debbie Travis Painted House Kids Rooms

By: DEBBIE TRAVIS

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Random House Inc: June 2002

Seller ID: 3797

ISBN: 0609805517

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Frank L. Hanks

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Plume: February 1979

Seller ID: 179489

ISBN: 0525474773

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Design Is in the Details: Outdoor Spaces

By: Brad Mee

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle: August 2005

Seller ID: 4361

ISBN: 1402727658

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Using dozens of inspiring color photographs, designer Brad Mee takes his creative talent outdoors and reveals how to fashion a personalized garden haven that's vibrant, unique, and serves its purpose--whether it's for entertaining or relaxation. For Mee, it all begins by thinking of the space as an integral part of the house, with the same decorating considerations as any other room. Choosing an overall style (formal with elegant statuary; Zen, graced with placid pools and stone walkways; Mediterranean) is the first step: that provides the foundation for selecting surfaces such as floors, wall...
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Designs and their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics

By: Mr. Richard Hill

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: July 1999

Seller ID: 14348

ISBN: 0300079486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In his thought-provoking book, Richard Hill examined the many-faced relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Grounding his arguments in the practical issues related to building -- he demands of site, materials, labor force, the nature of the commission -- Hill expands our understanding and enjoyment of architecture while offering especially valuable insights for students of architecture and the history of architecture.The book opens with an analysis of the relationship between buildings, drawings, and designs. Hill suggests that architectural drawings are essentially pictures...
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Discovering the Vernacular Landscape

By: John Brinckerhoff Jackson

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 1986

Seller ID: 162688

ISBN: 0300035810

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Ely Jacques Kahn: New York Architect (Acanthus Pr Reprint Series. 20th Century-Landmarks in Design, Vol 4)

By: Tom Killian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Acanthus Press: May 1995

Seller ID: 148796

ISBN: 092649404X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Ernest Flagg: Beaux-Arts Architect and Urban Reformer (Architectural History Foundation Book)

By: Mardges Bacon

Price: $69.98

Publisher: The MIT Press: March 1986

Seller ID: 247290

ISBN: 0262022222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Architect of the United States Naval Academy, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Scribner Building, and model tenement houses, Ernest Flagg (1857-1947) advanced the cause of classicism while demonstrating a deep concern for architecture's social responsibility. This study of one of the most innovative practitioners of the Beaux-Arts movement in America covers Flagg's early training and Beaux-Arts works, his town and country houses, his commercial and utilitarian buildings, the Singer Tower (which established a new height record while setting a precedent for New York City skyscraper restrictions ...
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Explorations in the meaning of architecture: Insights from authors who designed their own house--Jung, Twain, Scott, London, Wharton, Jeffers, Irving, O'Neil, Lowry, Walpole

By: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Gondolier Press: January 1979

Seller ID: 233478

ISBN: 0935824006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Fair Land to Build in: The Architecture of the Empire State

By: Gill, Brendan

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Preservation League of: November 1984

Seller ID: 247010

ISBN: 0942000048

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

By: James Crawford

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Picador: March 2017

Seller ID: 238582

ISBN: 1250118298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Florence an Architectural Guide (Itineraries)

By: Guido Zucconi

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Arsenale Editrice: January 2007

Seller ID: 247067

ISBN: 8877431474

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This is the most complete pocket guidebook to the buildings of Florence, from the archaeology of earliest Fiesole to the contemporary arhcitecture of names such as Giovanni Michelucci and Leonardo Ricci. The Guide features 233 buildings with basic information on their history and precise enhanced by a wealth of illustrations and fifty-five plans of the most important buildings. A general map at the front of the book enables the reader to see the featured buildings in relation to one another while more localised maps at the beginning of each chapter provide further assistance.
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Forts for Kids

By: David Stiles

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Lyons Press: May 2011

Seller ID: 232654

ISBN: 0762764538

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A dreamer's handbook for kids--and parents--offering practical results All kids love the idea of a hideaway--a place that is theirs, no parents allowed. But how on earth can they actually build one? In "Forts for Kids," an inspirational yet practical guide, David Stiles, the most trusted authority on DIY building projects, shows them how. Assuming no previous experience from the fort builder, the book starts with the basics for kids and their parents: how to buy wood, and essential skills such as sawing and nailing. It includes a brief history of forts and more than twenty projects ranging fro...
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Fragments from Greek & Roman Architecture: The Classical America Edition of Hector d'Espouy's Plates (Classical America Series in Art and Architecture)

By: N/A

Price: $17.98

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd: January 1981

Seller ID: 240645

ISBN: 0393000524

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography

By: Meryle Secrest

Price: $11.51

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: May 1998

Seller ID: 223828

ISBN: 0226744140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Meryle Secrest's "Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography" focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius architect and the provocative con-man. "Secrest seizes the themes most evocative of certain of our cultural myths, forging them into a coherent and emotionally plausible narrative."--"New Republic" "A...
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From The Ground Up: Observations On Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, And Civic Design

By: Lewis Mumford

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Mariner Books: February 1956

Seller ID: 91784

ISBN: 0156340194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker's "Sky Line" column.
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Furnishing the Old-Fashioned Garden: Three Centuries of American Summerhouses, Dovecotes, Pergolas, Privies, Fences & Birdhouses

By: May Brawley Hill

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Harry N Abrams: September 1998

Seller ID: 68737

ISBN: 0810933357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Gardening has become America's favorite pastime, inspiring a tremendous interest in both antique and reproduction garden ornaments and furniture. May Hill, author of Abrams' widely praised Grandmother's Garden, returns here to early American gardens to trace three centuries of trellises, arbors, fences, summerhouses, and other outbuildings in the context of specific periods, places, and American garden styles.Hill draws on paintings, photographs, historical narratives, and personal recollections to create this unprecedented portrait of American garden architecture. From the practical 18th-c...
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Gesundheit Institute: The Architecture And Planning Of Sellers And Company Architects 1984-2003

By: N/A

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Sellers And Company: January 2003

Seller ID: 256789

ISBN: B0013GHZAI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Gracious Living: Kohler Coordinates for the Kitchen and Bath

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meredith Corporation: August 1997

Seller ID: 3796

ISBN: 0696207761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

-- Assists readers in mixing and matching color.-- 160 photos of gorgeous kitchens and baths.
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Graveyard Preservation Primer (AASLH Primer S.)

By: Lynette Strangstad

Price: $19.95

Publisher: American Association for State and Local History: January 1988

Seller ID: 206933

ISBN: 0910050902

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Great Moments In Architecture

By: David Macaulay

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Ernest Benn Ltd: January 0001

Seller ID: 145352

ISBN: 0510000584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Guide to New York City Landmarks

By: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Wiley: March 1998

Seller ID: 257473

ISBN: 0471182893

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"From cover to cover, you'll be able to see why New York City is the Capital of the World." -Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor, New York City.The official and complete guide to New York City's landmarks and historic districts.This brand-new edition of the Guide to New York City Landmarks shows you the best of classic New York buildings and places-what they are, where they are, and how to find them. With up-to-date entries on individual landmark buildings and interiors, scenic landmarks, and historic neighborhoods, this guide has it all.Covers all five boroughs* Features more than 750 ...
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Handbook of Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archive)

By: Franz Sales Meyer

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1957

Seller ID: 264078

ISBN: 0486203026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This excellent collection of historic decorative ornament contains over 3,000 examples ranging from the cultures of the Greeks and Romans through the Victorians. Among the many different kinds of objects depicted are fine line drawings of chairs, thrones, crowns, heraldic emblems, altars, armor, architecture, and scores of objects used in everyday life. 3002 black-and-white illustrations.
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House Hunters

By: SUZANNE WHANG

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Meredith Books: September 2006

Seller ID: 3806

ISBN: 0696230763

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Find and buy your dream home at an affordable price with the help of Suzanne Whang.Host of the hit show House Hunters on HGTV. Suzanne brings you the ultimate guide to house hunting.Whang and co-writer Bruce Cook take you behind the scenes of the real estate profession to answer often confusing home buying questions like: aHow can I find a good real estate agent?a aIs it a good location?a aWhat kind of mortgage do I need?aPlus you'll enjoy Suzanne's tips for a positive attitude when home buying and her hilarious Top Ten lists about the process.
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Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building

By: Robert H. Kronenburg

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Academy Press: April 2002

Seller ID: 66874

ISBN: 0470843314

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Features extensive illustrations.* Commercially available products are compared with the work of leading designers.* Publication of the Second Edition is to coincide with a major exhibition, "Living in Motion," co-currated by the author.
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How Architecture Got Its Hump (Preston Thomas Memorial Lecture Series)

By: Roger Connah

Price: $6.98

Publisher: The MIT Press: March 2001

Seller ID: 126949

ISBN: 0262531887

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for architectural hallucinations or alibis for revisions of history. Or, are they a means for widening the site of architecture? Connah shows how these disciplines have not only contributed to new developments in architectural theory and practice, but have begun to insinuate new possibilities of space. Sometimes seamless, sometimes awkward like the hump acqu...
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How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit

By: Witold Rybczynski

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: October 2013

Seller ID: 41136

ISBN: 0374211744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form--but it remains mysterious to most of us. In "How Architecture Works," Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not-so-good--...
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How to build a house with an architect

By: Baker, John Milnes

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Lippincott: January 1979

Seller ID: 269991

ISBN: 0397013256

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good