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...
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Seven Lamps of Architecture

By: John Ruskin

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (Tx): May 1979

Seller ID: 138030

ISBN: 0374501882

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Shaker architecture; descriptions with photographs and drawings of Shaker buildings at Mount Lebanon, New York, Watervliet, New York [and] West Pittsfield, Massachusetts

By: William Lawrence Lassiter

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing: November 1994

Seller ID: 144203

ISBN: 0517134950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Shaker architecture; descriptions with photographs and drawings of Shaker buildings at Mount Lebanon, New York, Watervliet, New York [and] West Pittsfield, Massachusetts

By: William Lawrence Lassiter

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing: November 1994

Seller ID: 144248

ISBN: 0517134950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Shelter

By: Easton, Bob

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Shelter Publications: May 2000

Seller ID: 287838

ISBN: 0936070110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to "housecars"; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and...
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Single Family Houses

By: Carles Broto

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Links Internacional: May 2004

Seller ID: 264533

ISBN: 8489861110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The evolution of architecture in the 20th century is the history of the transformation of the family dwelling cell. Le Corbusier with his machine d'habiter, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and other avant-garde architects presented a splendid collection of single-family dwellings which show new material and spatial solutions arising from the rapid changes in modern life. Today the single family dwelling is going through another period of renewal, which is expressed in the present volume through a collection of recent projects by famous architects: Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas...
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Sir John Soane: The Architect As Collector, 1753-1837

By: Peter Thornton,Helen Dorey

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc: September 1992

Seller ID: 247298

ISBN: 0810938278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Small House Designs

By: Kenneth R. Tremblay, Lawrence Von Bamford

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC: April 2004

Seller ID: 13453

ISBN: 0882669664

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This impressive collection of a variety of award-winning designs for small houses is accompanied by expert commentary, specific technical data, and beautiful exterior photographs.
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Sons of Martha: Civil Engineering Readings in Modern Literature

By: N/A

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers: October 1989

Seller ID: 218452

ISBN: 0872627209

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

clean copy, some shelf wear
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Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present

By: Kidder Smith

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: October 1997

Seller ID: 226453

ISBN: 1568980256

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Architecture of the United States, GE Kidder Smith's 1981 three-volume masterwork, was hailed as the most comprehensive and insightful overview of the architectural heritage of this country. Princeton Architectural Press is proud to introduce an updated version of this extraordinary resource-long out of print-in a single volume, the Source Book of American Architecture. No similar encyclopedia of American architecture exists. Kidder Smith examines our nation's architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House ...
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Sticks and Stones (Dover Books on Architecture)

By: Lewis Mumford

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1955

Seller ID: 186802

ISBN: 048620202x

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: Franco Ragazzi

Price: $49.98

Publisher: Sagep: December 1991

Seller ID: 179531

ISBN: 8870583929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The American Family Home, 1800-1960

By: Clifford Edward Clark

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: September 1986

Seller ID: 247436

ISBN: 0807816752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status.

The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom

By: Laura S. Dushkes

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: October 2012

Seller ID: 245653

ISBN: 1616890932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - 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 contem...
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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, 2nd Edition

By: William Allin Storrer

Price: $8.98

Publisher: The MIT Press: September 1982

Seller ID: 246997

ISBN: 0262690802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The first edition of this book was widely recognized for the unique service it performs. The review in the "AIA Journal" stated, "Here is the whole Frank Lloyd Wright catalog--not another thematic discourse, limited period or subject evaluation, art-book photo collection or the like, but an ambitious compilation of every built project designed by FLW, which has been needed for over a decade.""Progressive Architecture" summarized the book's program and plan as follows: "This work is the only publication that documents "all" of the buildings designed by Wright. It also offers a short commentary ...
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The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols

By: Donald Martin Reynolds

Price: $9.98

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons: April 1994

Seller ID: 240288

ISBN: 0471014397

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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...
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The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance (World of Art)

By: Peter Murray

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd: November 1969

Seller ID: 157496

ISBN: 0500200947

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Art of Gothic: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting

By: Toman, Rolf

Price: $25.00

Publisher: h.f.ullmann: an imprint of Tandem Verlag GmbH, [K?nigswinter, Germany], 2007: January 2007

Seller ID: 295865

ISBN: 383315148X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Book of Bridges

By: Martin Hayden

Price: $6.98

Publisher: A & W Promotional: October 1976

Seller ID: 269009

ISBN: 0883653583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Home

By: Paul Duchscherer

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1995

Seller ID: 238024

ISBN: 067086353X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Decoration of Houses (The Classical America Series in Art and Architecture)

By: Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: August 1978

Seller ID: 247274

ISBN: 0393008401

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Future of Architecture

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Plume: May 1970

Seller ID: 204324

ISBN: 0452004462

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Pages discolored, cover worn!
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The Great Country Houses of Hungary

By: Pratt, Michael

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Abbeville Press: January 2008

Seller ID: 294979

ISBN: 0789208911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Baroque castles and rococo villas dot HungaryGCOs countryside and stand as testaments to the wealth and power of this regionGCOs aristocracy. Lord Pratt reveals the histories and treasures of these structures, many of which were inaccessible to the West until this past decade. Setting his discussion of the houses and their patrons against the backdrop of HungaryGCOs history, Pratt illuminates the manner in which diverse political and cultural influences have molded the architecture of this countryGCOs most illustrious homes. For instance, he recounts how the castle S+irv+ir evolved from a wood...
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The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture

By: Stang, Alanna,Hawthorne, Christopher

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: June 2005

Seller ID: 242510

ISBN: 1568984812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or "green," homes. The result: more than thirty-five residences in fifteen countries -- and nearly every conceivable natural environment -- designed by a combination of star architects and heretofore unknown practitioners.
Six different climactic zones are presented in ...
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The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture

By: Stang, Alanna,Hawthorne, Christopher

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: June 2005

Seller ID: 292665

ISBN: 1568984812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Imaginary Orient: Exotic Buildings of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe

By: Stefan Koppelkamm

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges: October 2014

Seller ID: 68803

ISBN: 3936681775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The Irish Round Tower: Origins and Architecture Explored

By: Brian Lalor

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Collins Pr: September 1999

Seller ID: 240401

ISBN: 1898256640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The remains of over 70 Christian/early-medieval Round Towers survive in Ireland, with the bulk of them located north of the Dingle Peninsula and south of Lough Neagh. Many of those that remain are in association with surviving monastic settlements and are sited in some of the most beautiful and historic areas of the country.
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The Look of Architecture

By: Witold Rybczynski

Price: $14.95

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

Seller ID: 247361

ISBN: 0195156331

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - 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 t...
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The Municipal House of the City of Prague

By: Frantisek Lauda

Price: $72.00

Publisher: Municipal House of Prague: January 2004

Seller ID: 247293

ISBN: 8086339114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The New Autonomous House: Design and Planning for Sustainability

By: Brenda Vale, Robert Vale

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: May 2000

Seller ID: 15536

ISBN: 0500341761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The New Autonomous House records their building of a house on the principles of sustainable resources in the small town of Southwell in the British Midlands. As specialists in green architecture, the Vales sought to create an environmentally friendly four-bedroom house that was neither exotic in appearance nor difficult to maintain. They document the philosophy, design, and construction of a building that can produce power from the sun and obtain drinking water from the rain.

The New Autonomous House has a simple but revolutionary message: It is possible to l...
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The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600-900

By: McClendon, Charles

Price: $49.98

Publisher: Yale University Press: October 2005

Seller ID: 294978

ISBN: 0300106882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

'The Origins of Medieval Architecture' is devoted to the important innovations in architecture that took place in western Europe between the death of emperor Justinian in 565 A.D. and the tenth century.
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The Sagrada Familia: The Astonishing Story of GaudÃâ€™s Unfinished Masterpiece

By: Gijs van Hensbergen

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: July 2017

Seller ID: 238588

ISBN: 1632867818

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

An illuminating biography of one of the most famous--and most famously unfinished--buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona.

The scaffolding-cloaked spires of Antoni Gaud 's masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, dominate the Barcelona skyline and draw in millions of visitors every year. More than a century after the first stone was laid in 1882, the Sagrada Familia remains unfinished, a testament to Gaud 's quixotic ambition, his religious devotion, and the sensuous eccentricity of his design. It has defied the critics, the penny-pinching accountants, the conservati...
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The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities

By: Joseph Rykwert

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Vintage: March 2002

Seller ID: 179487

ISBN: 0375700447

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of urban life will also be the result of choices. Our choices.

That cities display and represent the personal desires of their inhabitants is central to Joseph Rykwert's argument in The Seduction of Place. Insisting that they are the physical constructs of communities, he travels through histor...
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The Snippy World Of Michael Roberts

By: Michael Roberts

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Steidl/Edition 7L: August 2005

Seller ID: 223771

ISBN: 3865211518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, slipcase intact, light wear.
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The Story of Gothic Architecture (Story Of... (Prestel))

By: Francesca Prina

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Prestel Publishing: September 2011

Seller ID: 60439

ISBN: 3791345966

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Focusing on the Gothic period, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style. Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features the Gothic period's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, and drawings and plans. The book offers a general introduction to the Gothic period and discusses the primary characteristics of the style, along with the commonly used techniques and materials. A hallmark of the...
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The Story of Romanesque Architecture

By: Francesca Prina

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Prestel Publishing: January 2012

Seller ID: 60441

ISBN: 379134630X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Focusing on Romanesque architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style. Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features Romanesque architecture's most important architects and buildings, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. Seen throughout the European continent, medieval Romanesque buildings are recognized for their strength and stylistic simplicity. Arranged chronologically, this guide features dozens of familia...
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

By: Josef Krasa

Price: $24.95

Publisher: George Braziller: April 1995

Seller ID: 225248

ISBN: 0807613886

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact. light shelf wear.
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