Category: Architecture

Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500" cable across a river / Ian MacLeod's handbuilt stone house in South Africa, where baboons jump on the roof at night / Ma Page's bottle house in the Nevada desert / artist Michael Kahn's semi-subterranean sculptural ivillage in Arizona / Bill and Athena Steen's strawbale houses / Ianto Evans' cob houses in Oregon / the Archlibre group of countercultural builders in the French Pyrenees / Bill Coperthwaite's spectacular 3-story yurt in the Maine woods / Bill Castle's finely-crafted log home and sa...
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House Hunters

By: WHANG, SUZANNE

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Meredith Books : September 2006

Seller ID: 3806

ISBN-13: 9780696230769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

House Hunters host Suzanne Whang and cowriter Bruce Cook take would-be home buyers behind the scenes of the real estate process, just like on the hit HGTV television show, to show them the best way to purchase a home.
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House of Worship: Sacred Spaces in America

By: Browning, Dominique,Garden, Editors of Home &

Price: $39.98

Publisher: Assouline Publishing : October 2006

Seller ID: 414975

ISBN-13: 9782843238802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The sacred buildings of America churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, meetinghouses are as diverse as the people they serve. In this book, we hear from architects, designers, clergy, and congregations as we explore and reflect on the intersection of faith, design, and community. We visit a variety of houses of worship across the nation, from a Quaker meetinghouse built in 1694 to a Baptist church constructed by slaves and a synagogue completed at the end of the twentieth century. Featured sites include: Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo, ND; Touro Synagogue, Newport, RI; Chuang Yen, Putnam Co., NY...
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Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building

By: Kronenburg, Robert H.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Academy Press : April 2002

Seller ID: 402135

ISBN-13: 9780470843314

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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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Hypernatural: Architecture's New Relationship with Nature (Architecture Briefs)

By: Satterfield, Blair

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : April 2015

Seller ID: 443269

ISBN-13: 9781616892722

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself. In Hypernatural architecture and material experts Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer present an international collection of forty-two case studies that illustrate astonishing new applications possible in this ra...
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Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945

By: Blumenson, John J. G.

Price: $18.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 1979

Seller ID: 247808

ISBN-13: 9780393306101

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This guide enables the reader to identify various styles and architectural terms by comparing real buildings with the book's photographs. Intended primarily for tourists and travellers, it covers a wide variety of styles including Spanish, colonial, prairie, Georgian and international. The book also explores details such as rooves, porches, windows and chimneys.
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Inspiring Tiny Homes: Creative living on land, on the water, and on wheels

By: Heriz, Gill

Price: $19.98

Publisher: CICO Books : April 2018

Seller ID: 245255

ISBN-13: 9781782493570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Gill Heriz presents a collection of some of the most inspiring small homes in the USA and the UK. Gill Heriz presents a collection of some of the most inspiring small homes in the USA and the UK. People have been living in small spaces for centuries, for reasons of practicality, mobility, flexibility, or personal choice. More recently, tiny homes have become the answer for many who need somewhere affordable to live, and who possess the creativity and energy to make something different. A small home can be relatively cheap to build or convert, and gives its owner choices, reflecting the way the...
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Islam

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Taschen GmbH : June 2002

Seller ID: 113689

ISBN-13: 9783822817865

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Joan Miro (A Museum of Modern Art Book)

By: Lanchner, Carolyn

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Distributed by H.N. Abrams : January 1993

Seller ID: 457177

ISBN-13: 9780870704345

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, wear to edges.
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John McAndrew's Modernist Vision: From the Vassar College Art Library to the Museum of Modern Art in New York

By: Bacon, Mardges

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : October 2018

Seller ID: 443271

ISBN-13: 9781616896409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

John McAndrew''s Modernist Vision tells the compelling story of the architect, scholar, and curator John McAndrew, who played a key role in redefining modernism in the United States from the 1930s onward. The designer of the Vassar College Art Library--arguably the first modern interior on a college campus--and the curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1937 to 1941, McAndrew was instrumental in creating a distinct and innovative aesthetic that bridged the European modernist lineage and American regional vernacular. Providing a fascinating glimpse into McAndrew''s...
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Kidspace Idea Book : Creative Playrooms Clever Storage Ideas Retreats for Teens Toddler-friendly Bedrooms

By: JORDAN, WENDY ADLER

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Random House Inc : March 2006

Seller ID: 3798

ISBN-13: 9781561586318

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This planning book provides practical design ideas for creating family spaces that function for both kids and adults -- from lofts and secret hideaways to high-tech homework centers and colorful bathrooms. Through comprehensive color photos, floor plans, and instructions, this inspiring manual is suitable for do-it-yourselfers, remodelers, and parents looking for ideas to present to architects and contractors.
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La arquitectura de San Cristo?bal de Las Casas (Spanish Edition)

By: Artigas H., Juan B

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Universidad Nacional Auto?noma de Me?xico : January 1991

Seller ID: 288166

ISBN-13: 9789683618177

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, edges worn.
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Leven Betts: Pattern Recognition

By: Leven, David,Betts, Stella

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : November 2008

Seller ID: 443265

ISBN-13: 9781568987828

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Powers of observation may be an architect's most underrated skill. For New York City-based Leven Betts Studio, thedesign of meaningful spaces that bring people into an active relationship with architecture requires finding and inscribingin space the physical marks and temporal patterns of our daily lives. Above all, their work is focused on an individual's experience of a space with particular attention to how we navigate our surroundings. Their intense scrutiny of site and programa process related to author William Gibson's notion of "pattern recognition"allows them to take advantage of certa...
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Lighthouses (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering)

By: Wermiel, Sara E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : December 2006

Seller ID: 459159

ISBN-13: 9780393731668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The fourth title in the Norton/Library of Congress series, this abundantly illustrated book conveys the romance and beauty of lighthouses and beacons while explaining the development of the forms, materials, architecture, and engineering of their structure: wood, masonry, cast-iron plate, on- and off-shore skeletal, caisson, and reinforced concrete.
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Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture

By: Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl

Price: $29.98

Publisher: University of Washington Press : December 2007

Seller ID: 443273

ISBN-13: 9780295986982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

On the evening of May 16, 1958, architecture alumni of the University of Washington converged on Seattle from all over the country. The event was a banquet to celebrate the founding of their alma mater's new College of Architecture and Urban Planning. One by one, the dean introduced the college's faculty members. At the name of Lionel "Spike" Pries, one alumnus recalled, "there was a special charge in the air. . . . Everyone rose and cheered and clapped; it appeared to go on forever." But within six months, Lionel Pries was abruptly and mysteriously gone from the university. After thirty years...
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Living Spaces: The Architecture of Fred Hollingsworth

By: Hollingsworth, Fred Thornton

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Simply Read Books : February 2005

Seller ID: 388649

ISBN-13: 9781894965200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Canadian architect Fred Hollingsworth designed his first house in 1946. Since then he has created some of the most innovative homes of the twentieth century. Hollingsworth's home designs incorporate an open floor plan and a keen observance of the flow between the inside and outside environment. Using natural materials with an emphasis on texture and natural lighting, Hollingsworth is one of the few modernist architects who look wholly to organic form as the basis of their design aesthetic. Living Spaces is a detailed monograph on Hollingsworth's rich career, revealing how he and a handful of v...
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Malibu: A Century of Living by the Sea

By: Shulman, Julius,Nogai, Juergen

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams : May 2005

Seller ID: 466950

ISBN-13: 9780810958852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Very good condition just missing dust jacket
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Microshelters: 57 Creative Designs for Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures

By: Diedricksen, Derek 'Deek'

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC : September 2015

Seller ID: 409059

ISBN-13: 9781612123530

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addition, Diedricksen includes six sets of building plans by leading designers to help you get started on a mi...
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Mies Reconsidered: His Career, Legacy, and Disciples

By: Zukowsky, John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Rizzoli : September 1986

Seller ID: 411542

ISBN-13: 9780847807710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space

By: Stierli, Martino

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Yale University Press : September 2019

Seller ID: 477223

ISBN-13: 9780300248340

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli charts the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural contexts, its application by the early 20th-century avant-gardes, and its eventual appropriation in the postmodern period. With chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe's spatial experiments, and Rem Koolhaas's use of lite...
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New York - Masterpieces of Architecture

By: Kaldor, Andras

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist : February 2004

Seller ID: 441665

ISBN-13: 9781851493982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Clean copy, no DJ.
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Nomadic Homes. Architecture on the move (Multilingual Edition)

Price: $70.00

Publisher: TASCHEN : December 2017

Seller ID: 252846

ISBN-13: 9783836562331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Nomadic homes come in all shapes and sizes. They are for the wealthy and the poor, the trendy and the out-of-luck. Changing one's place of residence is an endeavor that is as old as humanity, for reasons of season, or, more recently, to better occupy leisure time.Written and edited by Philip Jodidio, this volume with illustrations by Russ Gray contains some of the most remarkable examples of homes on the move. Starting with totally revamped Airstream mobile homes, and going on to spectacular moveable vacation houses of the Epic Retreats "pop-up boutique hotel" in Wales, this book doesn't stop ...
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Off the Grid: Houses for Escape

By: Bradbury, Dominic

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : March 2019

Seller ID: 380832

ISBN-13: 9780500021422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The imperative to reduce our carbon footprint and focus on renewable energy is having a profound impact on our daily lives and the way we think about living spaces. Surveying some of the world's most innovative off-grid homes, Off the Grid reveals the creative architecture and cutting-edge technologies that are redefining where and how we live--enabling us to escape to some of the most extraordinary and secluded natural environments on the planet.Dominic Bradbury tells the story of how innovative architects have made everyday living in the most wild and remote locations of the United States, E...
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Painted Ladies Revisited: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians Inside and Out

By: Pomada, Elizabeth, Larsen, Michael

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Studio : October 1989

Seller ID: 315343

ISBN-13: 9780525485087

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Palladio's Architecture and Its Influence: A Photographic Guide

By: Farber, Joseph C.,Reed, Henry Hope

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : July 1980

Seller ID: 247434

ISBN-13: 9780486239224

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

These 154 remarkable photographs reveal the beauty of 29 masterworks by Palladio and 37 British and American structures that embody the Palladian heritage. Captions, text by architectural history Henry Hope Reed.

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Palm Beach: An Architectural Legacy

By: Earl, Polly

Price: $44.98

Publisher: Rizzoli : February 2003

Seller ID: 465364

ISBN-13: 9780847825103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In 1894, Palm Beach leaped to world prominence as a winter playground with the completion of Henry Morrison Flagler's Royal Poinciana Hotel. In 1920's Palm Beach'sextravagant lifestyle reached its height, and grand sprawling Mediterranean-style mansions abounded. By the 1980s, financial prosperity and an economic boom, which was accompanied by an onslaught of redevelopment, threatened Palm Beach's world famous architectural heritage. Palm Beach details the meticulous restorations of more than twenty great houses and public buildings on the American Riviera. These houses were restored from 1988...
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Parables and Other Allegories: The Work of Melvin Charney, 1975-1990

By: Charney, Melvin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The MIT Press : October 1991

Seller ID: 109502

ISBN-13: 9780262531108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book documents a body of work that has previously been seen only in isolation, disclosing the concerns of an artist who perceives artistic, social, and political spheres as mutually related and interwoven.Essays by Patricia Phillips, Phyllis Lambert, and Robert-Jan van Pelt Melvin Charney is an artist and architect from Montreal whose site-related installations, drawings, collages, and texts have raised questions and stimulated discussion on such topics as the nature of the city and the connections between the built environment and the world of ideas. This richly illustrated book document...
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Paxton's Palace

By: Bird, Anthony

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd : February 1976

Seller ID: 402133

ISBN-13: 9780304294985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Hendrickson, Paul

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Knopf : October 2019

Seller ID: 392143

ISBN-13: 9780385353656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of...
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Rethinking the Modular

By: Meltzer, Burkhard,von Oppeln, Tido

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : July 2016

Seller ID: 443190

ISBN-13: 9780500292358

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Released as part of USM's fiftieth-anniversary celebration of this iconic furniture design, Rethink the Modular examines the role of unit-based systems in the wider context of architecture and design. It combines previously published writings, specially commissioned essays from thinkers and innovators John Thackara and Rick Poyner, and interviews with leading figures in the design world that explain how the concept of the modular influences their work. Interspersed with visual material, the texts reveal the many possibilities created by balancing structure with flexibility, and seek to redefin...
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Retreat: The Modern House in Nature

By: Broadhurst, Ron

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Rizzoli : October 2015

Seller ID: 409568

ISBN-13: 9780847845996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The most forward-looking spaces designed for rustic living in the twenty-first century. Across the globe, architects are creating innovative houses for country living, reimagining the way we escape into the natural world. Some combine industrial materials like metal and concrete with traditional wood. Others create sophisticated essays in off-grid living, employing the most technologically ambitious green-living strategies. Still others place discreet structures on remote, almost-unbuildable locations. This unique volume profiles new and recent projects that illustrate the inexhaustibl...
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Seattle As Collector: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Turns 40

By: Paine, Deborah; Andrews Richard; Yampolsky Ruri

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs : January 2011

Seller ID: 402160

ISBN-13: 9780979337383

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Secrets of King's College Chapel

By: Pennick, Nigel

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Aeon Books : February 2012

Seller ID: 4766

ISBN-13: 9781904658580

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Today, King's College Chapel is the iconic image of the City of Cambridge.The chapel was founded in 1446 by the mystically-inclined King Henry VI, known in his time as the royal saint. The king gave his builders complete instructions for a magnificent chapel of cathedral dimensions, every part of which had a mystical and spiritual meaning. This final flowering of the Great Work' was designed from the principles of sacred geometry, laid out and orientated by the ancient geomantic practice of the operative masons who built it.This book gives an historic overview of the chapel, and a summary of i...
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