Category: Architecture

In the current housing market, with more people moving to cities than ever before, those who live with roommates are no longer exclusively recent college graduates with clashing decorating senses and mismatched furniture. For many, it is perfectly normal to share a house or an apartment with other adults in order to save money, without sacrificing personal style in the home.Shared Living offers design examples for people who seek a sophisticated look in their shared space. Featuring roommates who are getting it right, this book delves into homes around the world where cohabitants have found sa...
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Siena. Cathedral, baptistery

By: Tavolari Barbara, Caciorgna Marilena.

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Sillabe : January 2008

Seller ID: 319340

ISBN-13: 9788883474071

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books North America Editions)

By: Horning, Jonathan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Wooden Books : March 2022

Seller ID: 468193

ISBN-13: 9781952178191

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books)

By: Horning, Jonathan

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA : November 2009

Seller ID: 455880

ISBN-13: 9780802717733

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The need for shelter is one of mankind's most basic, and mankind has been inventive in creating homes to fill this need. This book looks at the principal types of wooden and stick frame structures built around the world, and examines how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian ones. The book charts the gradual shift from the circular homes of nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, and examines the new geodesic experiments of the 20th Century. - Explore simple home materials: grasses, woven panels, bamboo, canv...
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Sticks and Stones (Dover Books on Architecture)

By: Mumford, Lewis

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1955

Seller ID: 186802

ISBN-13: 9780486202020

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Great classic of American cultural history and important study of American architecture and civilization, still stimulating in its sweep and insights. Discusses the early New England towns, vernacular building, Colonial and Federal periods, Henry Hobson Richardson and other important architects of the late 19th century, the Classical Revival, up to the early 1920s. 21 illus.

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Teatri Storici in Liguria (Italian Edition)

By: Ragazzi, Franco

Price: $49.98

Publisher: Sagep : December 1991

Seller ID: 179531

ISBN-13: 9788870583922

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Algonquin, St. Andrews N.B : On Passamaquoddy Bay

By: Sullivan, David

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Pendlebury Press : January 2005

Seller ID: 477819

ISBN-13: 9780973935806

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The American House: 100 Contemporary Homes

By: Jenkins, Hannah

Price: $34.98

Publisher: Images Publishing Dist Ac : October 2017

Seller ID: 398441

ISBN-13: 9781864707380

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

-Showcases contemporary residential architecture and design across the United States by renowned international architects and designers, illustrated with full-color photography, informative descriptions and detailed floor plans -Introduced by an acclaimed expert on the profound influences of key architecture and design practitioners, and the topic of building in different environments throughout the United States -Includes selected high-calibre contemporary gems spanning the nation, including multiple projects across a wide range of topographies and environments, from rural to urban, from smal...
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The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom

By: Dushkes, Laura S.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : October 2012

Seller ID: 245653

ISBN-13: 9781616890933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

If there's anything architects like doing more than designing buildings, it's talking about architecture. Whether musing about their inspirations (a blank sheet of paper, the sun hitting the side of a building), expanding on each other's thoughts (on materials, collaboration, clients, and constraints), or dishing out a clever quip, architects make good copy. The Architect Says is a colorful compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's most opinionated design minds. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party-an architect of today might sit next to a contemporary or...
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The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision (The MIT Press)

By: Hughes, Francesca

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The MIT Press : November 2014

Seller ID: 432949

ISBN-13: 9780262526364

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Why the rise of redundant precision in architecture and the accompanying fear of error are key to understanding the discipline's needs, anxieties and desires.When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organized relations between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision, already a promiscuous term, seems now to have been uncoupled from its contract with truthfulness. Meanwhile error, and the always-political space of its dissent, has reconfigured itself.In The Architecture of...
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The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times (MIT Press)

By: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

Price: $6.99

Publisher: The MIT Press : March 1966

Seller ID: 456327

ISBN-13: 9780262580052

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

H. H. Richardson was born into the architectural chaos of the mid-eighteen hundreds and dies in the architectural revolution of the age of the skyscraper, yet his genius and reputation were able to surmount the first and survive the latter. This is a study of his architecture and of the setting in which he worked. It includes detailed discussions of the social, economic, and technical history of the era and examines the architecture of Richardson's contemporaries and of those countries in which he traveled and lived.His heritage was the romantic generation that had contemptuously renounced the...
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The Architecture of Michelangelo: With a Catalogue of Michelangelo's Works

By: Ackerman, James S.,Newman, John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Penguin Books : July 1971

Seller ID: 460379

ISBN-13: 9780140211849

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols

By: Martin Reynolds, Donald

Price: $7.50

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons : April 1994

Seller ID: 420836

ISBN-13: 9780471014393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

From the reviews of the first edition of Architecture of New York City. It should provide joy to anyone even vaguely interested in this city and its artifacts.. It is very likely to turn them into enthusiasts. --New York Times Book Review .weaves the little-known stories of 80 buildings and landmarks into a colorful tapestry of New York's whirlwind history.. This richly illustrated guide can be read from beginning to end with great pleasure. --Publishers Weekly .Reynolds takes a new look at the older glories of New York. The architecture is freshly seen and is clearly researched. Reynolds' spl...
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The Architecture of the Greenwich Village Waterfront: An Archival Research Study Undertaken

Price: $19.98

Publisher: New York University Press : December 1989

Seller ID: 470203

ISBN-13: 9780814746059

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Art of Architecture Print Portfolio

Price: $23.98

Publisher: Columbia University

Seller ID: 463993

ISBN-13: 9780876545966

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Art of Classical Details: Theory, Design & Craftsmanship

By: Dodd, Phillip

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Images Publishing Dist Ac : March 2013

Seller ID: 433261

ISBN-13: 9781864702033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

-A lavish and beautifully illustrated sourcebook of classically inspired architectural detail -A valuable resource for architects, interior designers, builders and home decorators -Featuring a foreword by renowned interior designer David Easton -Highlights projects by US architects including Marc Ferguson & Oscar Shamamian, Peter Pennoyer, Quinlan Terry and Gil Schafer. Features a foreword by David Easton, arguably America's most respected decorator. Contributors also include historians Jeremy Musson and David Watkin. In The Art of Classical Details, classically trained architect Phillip Dodd ...
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The Business of Design: Balancing Creativity and Profitability (business and career guide to creating a successful design firm)

By: Granet, Keith

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : August 2011

Seller ID: 477689

ISBN-13: 9781616890186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light surface wear to the cover.
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The Complete Works of Percier and Fontaine

By: Percier, Charles,Fontaine, Pierre-Francois-Leonard

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : August 2018

Seller ID: 443272

ISBN-13: 9781616896980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Known as Napoleon''s architects, Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre Fontaine (1762-1853) were not only Emperor''s official government architects, but two of the most celebrated teachers at the legendary Ecole des Beaux-Arts, responsible for developing the highly influential neoclassical Empire, or Directoire, style of design In addition to their renovations to the Louvre and the Tuileries, and construction of the Arc de Tromphe de Carttousel, they are best known for Empress Josephine''s house at Malmaison, where they effectively invented the profession of interior design by crafting every ...
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The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings (TED Books)

By: Kushner, Marc

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/ TED : March 2015

Seller ID: 428115

ISBN-13: 9781476784922

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The founder of Architizer.com and practicing architect draws on his unique position at the crossroads of architecture and social media to highlight 100 important buildings that embody the future of architecture. We're asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define our future. A pavilion made from paper. A building that eats smog. An inflatable concert hall. A research lab that can walk through snow. We're entering a new age in architecture--one where we expect our buildings to deliver far more than just shelter. We want buildings that inspire us while helping the enviro...
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The Gingerbread Age: A View of Victorian America

By: Maass, John

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Greenwich House : January 1983

Seller ID: 301052

ISBN-13: 9780517019658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Look of Architecture

By: Rybczynski, Witold

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A. : January 2003

Seller ID: 247361

ISBN-13: 9780195156331

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts. This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow function; that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that details do not merely complement the architecture--details are the architecture. But the heart of the book illuminates th...
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The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs

By: Dakin, Karla,Benjamin, Lisa Lee,Pantiel, Mindy

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Timber Press : February 2013

Seller ID: 388678

ISBN-13: 9781604693126

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Until recently, most green rooftop gardens were little more than variations on sedum mats on four inches of soil. Now, designers are creating cutting-edge green roofs that focus not only on critical environmental issue like heat, storm management, and ecosystem development, but also on the aesthetics, offering beautiful, livable, sustainable landscapes. The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs is a comprehensive exploration of rooftop garden design and the process behind it. It covers everything landscape architects and garden designers need to know to create a beautiful garden in the sky....
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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933

By: Thompson, Emily

Price: $22.98

Publisher: The MIT Press : April 2002

Seller ID: 411555

ISBN-13: 9780262201384

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this history of aural culture in early-20th-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era.
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The Stones of Venice

By: Ruskin, John

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Collins : January 1960

Seller ID: 463762

ISBN: B0000CKONU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Stones of Venice (Classic History)

By: Ruskin, John

Price: $13.99

Publisher: Penguin Books : October 2001

Seller ID: 454466

ISBN-13: 9780141390659

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

clean copy, light marks on back cover, text inside unmarred
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The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Levine, Neil

Price: $31.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : December 2015

Seller ID: 452032

ISBN-13: 9780691167534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A landmark book on the architect's designs for remaking the modern city This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Levin...
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Thinking and Living Like an Architect

By: Michaelis, Alex,Boyd, Tim

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Clearview : May 2016

Seller ID: 398500

ISBN-13: 9781908337030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This is a book about contemporary architecture like no other. The authors have worked on many high profile projects all over the world and their lively and informal text both entertains and informs the reader. The photography throughout is stunning and this is both an inspirational and practical book about architecture.

This is Frank Lloyd Wright (This Is...artists-bios)

By: Volner, Ian

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing : August 2016

Seller ID: 470571

ISBN-13: 9781780678566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur; a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he experienced both incredible misfortune and great success. This Is Frank Lloyd Wright brings his projects and persona into vivid focus. Wit and visual punch have been the hallmarks of the This Is series to date; the first architectural title in the series will give readers an up-close look at Wright's progress from difficult childhood, to struggling apprenticeship, to early success, through mid-life setbacks and on to late-life comeback. Beautiful s...
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This is Frank Lloyd Wright (This Is...artists-bios)

By: Volner, Ian

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing : August 2016

Seller ID: 470832

ISBN-13: 9781780678566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur; a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he experienced both incredible misfortune and great success. This Is Frank Lloyd Wright brings his projects and persona into vivid focus. Wit and visual punch have been the hallmarks of the This Is series to date; the first architectural title in the series will give readers an up-close look at Wright's progress from difficult childhood, to struggling apprenticeship, to early success, through mid-life setbacks and on to late-life comeback. Beautiful s...
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Tiny House Design & Construction Guide

By: Louche, Dan S

Price: $29.99

Publisher: Tilt Development : April 2016

Seller ID: 409320

ISBN-13: 9780997288704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Take the first step to achieving your dream of building and living in your very own tiny house The Tiny House Design & Construction Guide is your road map to the entire build process. This guide will help you to understand each step that needs to be taken and, more importantly, give you the confidence to start building your own tiny house. This is the expanded, 2nd edition of the Tiny House Design & Construction Guide. This latest edition contains over 50% more content and over 38 more images and illustrations. I listened to my reader's feedback and added much more information into the framin...
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Tiny Houses in the City

By: Zeiger, Mimi

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Rizzoli : March 2016

Seller ID: 280600

ISBN-13: 9780847848225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A presentation of micro-scaled contemporary residences that demonstrate domesticity can be both compact and beautiful. How we live in cities--smaller, denser, smarter--is at the heart of Tiny Houses in the City. Urban areas across the globe are experiencing a renaissance, with once-forgotten downtowns and neighborhoods becoming increasingly popular for redevelopment. This book looks at the tiny house movement through the lens of metropolitan life. Tiny Houses in the City features an international collection of more than thirty homes that exemplify compact living at its best. The houses, apartm...
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Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music

By: Bennett, Tony,Sullivan, Robert

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Sterling : September 2007

Seller ID: 221161

ISBN-13: 9781402747670

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Tony Bennett is one of the world's most loved musical legends. What many of his admirers may not know, however, is that Bennett, under the name of Anthony Benedetto, is also a successful painter whose works hang in major museums and galleries. In this text, Tony reflects on his career.
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Tree Houses You Can Actually Build: A Weekend Project Book (Weekend Project Book Series)

By: Stiles, Jeanie Trusty, Stiles, David

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company : May 1998

Seller ID: 411449

ISBN-13: 9780395892732

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Provides information on tools, ropes, knots, ladders, and other equipment and supplies needed for bu
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Tree Houses You Can Actually Build: A Weekend Project Book (Weekend Project Book Series)

By: Stiles, Jeanie Trusty, Stiles, David

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company : May 1998

Seller ID: 455942

ISBN-13: 9780395892732

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Provides information on tools, ropes, knots, ladders, and other equipment and supplies needed for bu
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Tropical Style: Private Palm Beach

By: Ash Rudick, Jennifer,McLean, Alex

Price: $13.98

Publisher: Abbeville Press : November 1992

Seller ID: 465361

ISBN-13: 9781558594890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Both old and new money flocks to Palm Beach for "the season", and the houses that line the oceanfront and Intercoastal Waterway exhibit a remarkable range of approaches to living under the subtropical sun. Among the twenty homes that are featured in this lavish volume are those of Dorothy Spreckels Munn and Lilly Pulitzer Rousseau. All the most renowned Palm Beach architects -- Addison Mizner, Maurice Fatio, Howard Major, and Belford Shoumate -- are represented.But author Jennifer Ash also takes us off the beaten path to fascinating residences known to natives alone: an artist's bungalow on th...
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Twin Towers Forever

By: Giambelli, Rolando

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Promodis Italia : January 2002

Seller ID: 291359

ISBN-13: 9788888137087

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Vernacular Architecture (Material Culture)

By: Glassie, Henry

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Indiana University Press : December 2000

Seller ID: 462482

ISBN-13: 9780253213952

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture can be a prime resource for the one who would write a democratic and comprehensive history.

Where's the Architect: From Pyramids to Skyscrapers. An Architecture Look and Find Book

By: Rebscher, Susanne

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Prestel Junior : November 2018

Seller ID: 443274

ISBN-13: 9783791373010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This wonderfully illustrated and captivating introduction to the wonders of architecture will have young readers poring over each spread and learning as they go. From the top of China's Great Wall to the base of the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, this journey through the world of architecture stops in nearly every continent and travels through centuries. Annabelle von Sperber populates her dynamic and intricate double-page spreads with many details and a hidden architect or important figure on every page that kids will have fun trying to locate. Along the way they'll learn about the iron wor...
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Why on Earth Would Anyone Build That: Modern Architecture Explained

By: Zukowsky, John

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Prestel : July 2015

Seller ID: 425153

ISBN-13: 9783791381336

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This global examination of boundary-pushing architecture challenges our perceptions of how buildings ought to look--and reveals how even the most unusual constructions can achieve iconic status. In this fascinating exploration of 100 controversial buildings, readers will discover not only how each building wasconstructed, but also the motivation behind its design, and the ensuing debates. Readers will learn why erecting the Longaberger Basket Company headquarters was no picnic; why the Guggenheim Museum in New York City inspired hate mail from artists who would later display their works there;...
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