Category: Architecture

This richly illustrated survey, bound in an elegant portable format, profiles the most architecturally distinguished new houses from around the globe. Features 300 color photographs and 150 black-and-white architectural drawings. The diversity of the fifty-five houses featured in this photo-packed volume, by architects like Alvaro Siza, Tony Fretton, Hild und K, Jim Jennings Architecture, and Souto Moura Architects, demonstrates that the single-family home continues to play a pivotal role as a means of architectural expression and experimentation in the new millennium. These structures, all de...
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25 Houses Under 3000 Square Feet

By: Trulove, James Grayson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Collins Design : February 2006

Seller ID: 331851

ISBN-13: 9780060833084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Following the successful 25 Houses Under 2500 Square Feet and 25 Houses Under 1500 Square Feet, this book continues to explore the joys of living in compact, well-designed spaces. The twenty-five homes presented here, all recently constructed, offer an extraordinary range of architectural solutions for designing functional yet interesting, dramatic living spaces, ranging from a few hundred to 3,000 square feet.Each of the projects illustrates an innovative use of materials and careful attention to space and light. The informative text highlights the design and technical aspects of each house, ...
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25 Houses Under 3000 Square Feet

By: Trulove, James Grayson

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Collins Design : February 2006

Seller ID: 379126

ISBN-13: 9780060833084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Following the successful 25 Houses Under 2500 Square Feet and 25 Houses Under 1500 Square Feet, this book continues to explore the joys of living in compact, well-designed spaces. The twenty-five homes presented here, all recently constructed, offer an extraordinary range of architectural solutions for designing functional yet interesting, dramatic living spaces, ranging from a few hundred to 3,000 square feet.Each of the projects illustrates an innovative use of materials and careful attention to space and light. The informative text highlights the design and technical aspects of each house, ...
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A Concise History Of American Architecture (Icon Editions)

By: Roth, Leland

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Harper & Row : October 1980

Seller ID: 247065

ISBN-13: 9780064300865

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

0-06-430158-3 Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
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A Feeling of History

By: Zumthor, Peter,Lending, Mari

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess : October 2018

Seller ID: 458373

ISBN-13: 9783858818058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

While he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian architectural historian Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. In meandering, impressionistic style, and drawing on their favorite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Nabokov, and T. S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time, and temporalities reverberate across Zumthor's oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his attempts at emotional reconstruction by means of building, from ...
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A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals

By: Kostof, Spiro

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : May 1995

Seller ID: 448199

ISBN-13: 9780195083781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed a
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A Home in the World: Houses and Cultures

By: Laffon, Martine, Laffon, Caroline

Price: $17.98

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams : November 2004

Seller ID: 338885

ISBN-13: 9780810956070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A fascinating perspective on home design by revealing how different cultures have handled the essential task of building houses that reflect their ideals and values. In a time when home improvement is all the rage, this book sheds light on other, more global, meanings of the word home.
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A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture (Writing Architecture)

By: Kipnis, Jeffrey

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The MIT Press : August 2013

Seller ID: 444394

ISBN-13: 9780262519557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Essays on contemporary architecture that are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation.Jeffrey Kipnis's writing, thinking, and teaching casts architecture as both an intellectual discourse and a lived, affective experience. His essays on contemporary architects are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation. In these eleven essays, written between 1990 and 2008, he considers projects, concepts, and buildings by some of the most recognized architects working today, with special attention to the productions ...
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AIA Guide to New York City

By: White, Norval, Willensky, Elliot

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Three Rivers Press : June 2000

Seller ID: 14352

ISBN-13: 9780812931075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Now in its eighth edition, this work aims to be an ideal starting point for all practitioners and covers the broad range of injunctions in one volume. The author's practical treatment provides a description of the jurisdiction of the court to grant injunctions, as well as guidance on practice and procedure and Mareva injunctions and Anton Piller orders. The coverage spans all areas of the law, with particular attention paid to matrimonial and domestic proceedings. In addition, there are over 20 useful precedents, which, in conjunction with the procedural points, should make this an indispensab...
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American Buildings and Their Architects: Progressive and Academic Ideals at the Turn of the 20th Century

By: Jordy, William H.

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Doubleday : August 1976

Seller ID: 247079

ISBN-13: 9780385057028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

American Castles: A Guide to the Architecture and Furnishings of Castellated Mansions

By: Cavalier, Julian

Price: $9.98

Publisher: A. S. Barnes : January 1973

Seller ID: 465360

ISBN-13: 9780498012549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Apparitions: Architecture That Has Disappeared From Our Cities

By: Hughes, T. John

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Images Publishing Dist Ac : June 2015

Seller ID: 443270

ISBN-13: 9781864705959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

- Apparitions features a wide array of ghostly structures from the past overlaid over current buildings- With multiple locations in over sixty cities, including New York, Baltimore, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, and Indianapolis- Emphasizes the architectural style, historic and cultural significance, controversies, or anecdotes- Includes a snapshot of architecture in progress, with richly illustrated photography and descriptive narratives Apparitions is a photography project about buildings that that have vanished from our cities. Ghosted pictures of these structures are combined with cur...
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Architects of Fortune: Mies Van Der Rohe and the Third Reich

By: Hochman, Elaine S.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Fromm Intl : January 1990

Seller ID: 451004

ISBN-13: 9780880641210

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Architecture for Beginners

By: Hellman, Louis

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Writers & Readers : January 1988

Seller ID: 467590

ISBN-13: 9780863160417

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looks at the development of architectural style, discusses influential architects, and examines the social impact of architecture.
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Art & Architecture in Brazil From Aleijadinho to Neimeyer

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Architecture

Seller ID: 335126

ISBN: B00HET9W18

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Atlas of Warsaw's Architecture

By: Rottermund, Juliusz A. Chroscicki & Andrezej

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Arkady Publishers : January 1978

Seller ID: 424741

ISBN-13: 9780800222802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

clean copy, light signs of wear
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Bridges (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)

By: Cleary, Richard L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 2007

Seller ID: 329783

ISBN-13: 9780393731361

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Bridges are such ubiquitous features of the built environment that we cross most of them barely acknowledging their presence. Certain bridges, however, command attention: for their utility facilitating travel from here to there; for their size, setting, beauty, or historical associations. Ordinary or spellbinding, every bridge is a response to a problem--the spanning of a river or other obstacle, solved more or less elegantly. This visual sourcebook surveys American bridges from coast to coast in terms of four fundamental structural types (beam, arch, truss, and suspension) and the special cat...
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

By: King, Ross

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : October 2001

Seller ID: 366881

ISBN-13: 9780142000151

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A national bestseller, Brunelleschi's Dome recounts how one genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to engineer the impossible--the construction of a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in 1418. An ALA Notable Book of the Year. Illustrations & halftones throughout.
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Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

By: Goldberger, Paul

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Vintage : November 2017

Seller ID: 379049

ISBN-13: 9780307946393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Here, from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger, is the first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. Goldberger follows Gehry from his humble origins--the son of working-class Jewish immigrants in Toronto--to the heights of his extraordinary career. He explores Gehry's relationship to Los Angeles, a city that welcomed outsider artists and profoundly shaped him in his formative years. He surveys the full range of his work, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. to the architect's own home in Santa M...
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Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere

By: Klein, Zach,Leckart, Steven

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Voracious : November 2021

Seller ID: 456702

ISBN-13: 9780316417532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Are you yearning for a simpler existence? Find the rural escape of your dreams in this beautiful book from the creators of the wildly popular tumblr Cabin Porn. Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York, Cabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which is now a huge and obsessive audience. The site features photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in the backcountry of America and all over the world. It has had over 10 million unique visitors, with...
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Canals (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)

By: Kapsch, Robert J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2004

Seller ID: 329761

ISBN-13: 9780393730883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Canals describes the development of these waterways in their heyday and shows the varied structures they engendered. This richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system provides capsule tours of thirty-five canals and a journey along two of the most famous: the Chesapeake & Ohio (now a National Park) and the Morris Canal (largely lost to development).

Cereal Travel & Lifestyle Magazine | Volume 14

By: Magazine, Cereal

Price: $49.99

Publisher: Cereal Magazin : January 2017

Seller ID: 472643

ISBN: 1999821807

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, light wear to the edges.
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Chartres Cathedral - Hb English

By: Miller, Malcolm

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Pitkin Publishing : February 1996

Seller ID: 243846

ISBN-13: 9780853727378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Chicago Tapes

By: Tigerman, Stanley

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Rizzoli : November 1987

Seller ID: 451001

ISBN-13: 9780847808755

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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

By: Bach, Ira J. (editor)

Price: $7.98

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : January 1980

Seller ID: 247423

ISBN-13: 9780226033969

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

China (Architecture of the World, 3)

By: Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Michéle

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Benedikt Taschen Verlag : September 1994

Seller ID: 311939

ISBN-13: 9783822896570

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Color Book

By: BLAKE, JILL, CHAFFER, MARTIN

Price: $24.95

Publisher: N/A : September 1997

Seller ID: 3804

ISBN-13: 9780811818728

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: 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 gui...
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Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture

Price: $44.98

Publisher: The Yale School of Architecture : March 2011

Seller ID: 447995

ISBN-13: 9780300170375

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Throughout the history of the built environment there has been no more significant endeavor than the construction of houses of worship, which were once the focal point around which civilizations and city-states developed. Constructing the Ineffable is the first book to examine this topic across continents and from the perspective of multiple faiths, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Baha'i. It addresses how sacred buildings such as churches, mosques, synagogues, and memorials are viewed in the context of contemporary architecture and religious practice. Featuring more than a dozen es...
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Convertible Houses

By: Lam, Amanda, Thomas, Amy

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Gibbs Smith : April 2007

Seller ID: 314434

ISBN-13: 9781423600299

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Convertible Houses Amanda Lam and Amy Thomas Convertible Houses shows how to use creative design, flexible space planning, and convertible devices to make every inch in your home work harder Showcasing dozens of examples of "convertible" design, authors Amanda Lam and Amy Thomas illustrate the principles of multipurpose living that enable dwellers to enjoy more functionality in a finite amount of space. Learn the most successful strategies employed by architects, designers, and homeowners, with chapters devoted to specific devices in action, such as sliding walls, removable partitions, and e...
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Craftsman Bungalows: 59 Homes from 'The Craftsman' (Dover Architecture)

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : January 1989

Seller ID: 443681

ISBN-13: 9780486258294

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) was one of the leading lights of the Arts and Crafts movement in America, an organized effort which sought beauty in simple organic design. His magazine, The Craftsman, was a major forum for the movement's ideas and concepts ― ideas which today are enjoying a renaissance in the design community. The present publication features 36 articles that appeared in The Craftsman between 1903 and 1916. Included are graphic descriptions of 59 "bungalows" (Most of which were actually spacious, year-round homes), floor plans for 35 dwellings, and many sketches or photogr...
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Design Is in the Details: Outdoor Spaces

By: Mee, Brad

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle : August 2005

Seller ID: 4361

ISBN-13: 9781402727658

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: 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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Design/Build with Jersey Devil: A Handbook for Education and Practice (Architecture Briefs)

By: Hailey, Charlie

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : July 2016

Seller ID: 433257

ISBN-13: 9781616893569

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel believe an architect's job does not stop at designing a building, but that it extends to constructing it as well. Now working into their fifth decade, Jersey Devil, the loose-knit group they founded in 1972, bands together under this design/build ethos that an architect's place is just as much on the job site as it is at the drawing board. The trio pioneered design/build practice and their influence has spawned more than one hundred design/build programs. Jersey Devil's process and expertise are unpacked in this Architecture Brief, providing students...
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Designing with Models: A Studio Guide to Making and Using Architectural Design Models

By: Mills, Criss B.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Wiley : February 2000

Seller ID: 383645

ISBN-13: 9780471345893

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dutch Vernacular Architecture in North America, 1640-1830

By: Stevens, John R.

Price: $49.99

Publisher: The Society for the Preservation of Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture : January 2005

Seller ID: 477378

ISBN-13: 9780976599005

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, creases along the spine and scuff marks on the cover surface.
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Ely Jacques Kahn: New York Architect (Acanthus Pr Reprint Series. 20th Century-Landmarks in Design, Vol 4)

By: Killian, Tom

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Acanthus Press : May 1995

Seller ID: 402134

ISBN-13: 9780926494046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Experiencing Architecture

By: Rasmussen, Steen Eiler

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The MIT Press : June 1962

Seller ID: 462171

ISBN-13: 9780262680028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A classic examination of superb design through the centuries.Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence--ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace--Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience.In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pur...
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Flashback: Celebrating 25 Years of Art Space Gallery

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Art Space Gallery

Seller ID: 320294

ISBN-13: 9780956307255

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner (Dover Architecture) by Mizner, Addison (1992) Paperback

By: Mizner, Addison

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : December 1992

Seller ID: 465363

ISBN-13: 9780486273273

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

An architect who excelled at transforming an architectural fantasy into a practical, livable home, Addison Mizner was one of the most original and influential designers America has produced. The houses, clubs, and shops he built for the wealthy of Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Florida, evince a brilliant grasp of how to blend a building with the environment, how to adapt it to the climate and how to situate it in order to make the best use of the elements of sea, light, and air.This lavishly illustrated volume recaptures the genius of Addison Mizner. It contains over 180 photographs both interior...
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser

By: Cuito, Aurora

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company : October 2003

Seller ID: 453481

ISBN-13: 9783823845355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Friedenreich Hundertwasser was born in Vienna in 1928 as Friedrich Stowasser. He initally won acclaim for his paintings but is now more renowned as an architect whose style was heavily influenced by Antoni Gaudi and some of the Jugendstil architects. His inclusion of irregular, almost accidental forms, in his building design grew out of his antipathy to what he saw as the severity and austerity in modern architecture. He once said: ..." our present, planned architecture cannot be considered art. Our modern buildings are detached and pitiable compromises by men of bad conscience who work with s...
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