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Vendor:Linda Deberry
Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House: At Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
A guide to Frank Lloyd Wright's finest example of 'Usonian' architecture, intended to bring quality design to everyday American families in the post-Depression era Lavish photography and lucid text bring the architect's vision to life on the page Fascinating for those with an interest...- $14.95
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Vendor:Alex Sanchez Vidiella
Small Apartments of the World
A showcase of 30 world-class apartments for modern life in smaller spaces. Small in size but big on space, the 30 apartments shown in Small Apartments of the World provide a wealth of inspiration for architects, designers and homeowners. Addressing the desire (or necessity)...- $29.95
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Vendor:Joseph C. Jenkins
Slate Roofs 1926
A classic text on slate roof construction, now back in print Master slate roof builder Joseph Jenkins has brought back into print the classic "Slate Roofs," first published in January, 1926, by the then nascent "National Slate Association." Other than a slight adjustment to...- $25.00
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Vendor:Stuart Cohen
Classicist No. 16: Spring 2020
The Classicist is an annual journal dedicated to the classical tradition in architecture and the allied arts. Focused on Chicago, the Classicist No. 16 explores the city's rich architectural history as well as contemporary examples of classical design through professional and student portfolios as...- $35.00
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Vendor:Thom Nickels
Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls
Author Thom Nickels presents the city's most iconic homes and the stories behind them.Philadelphia's grand mansions and architectural treasures reflect its iconic status in American history, for each Greek Revival home and Corinthian column tells a compelling story of the people behind it. Historic...- $21.99
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Vendor:Sandra Seth
Adobe: Homes and Interiors of Taos, Santa Fe, and the Southwest
Southwestern architecture is a blend of sensibilities and technology from three cultures: Native American, Hispanic and Anglo. The traditional styles and adaptations explored in this book maintain definite connection with the past. In over 500 photos and line drawings, the authors present authentic exteriors,...- $32.95
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Vendor:Ccy Architects
Connection: Ccy Architects
Connection is a monograph of ten residences that articulate the office's design process and exploration of creating architectural solutions rooted in natural place.Connection provides insight into how Colorado-based CCY Architects investigates and formulates the connection between people and place. By way of ten recently...- $60.00
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Vendor:Robert A. M. Stern
Open Studio: The Work of Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Open Studio offers a window into the methods and unique culture of an architecture firm that has achieved international success.Curated illustrations of hand sketches, study models, design sessions, and site visits pull back the curtain on the creative collaboration behind the scenes at Robert...- $50.00
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Vendor:Amale Andraos
Workac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge
An engaging, playfully designed survey of the small- and large-scale projects that define WORKac as one of the most progressive and optimistic architecture firms in practice today.This book surveys the projects that define WORKac (WORK Architecture Company) as one of the most progressive and...- $50.00
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Vendor:Peter Pennoyer
Harrie T. Lindeberg and the American Country House
First monograph on a leading architect of the American Country House Era who synthesized Scandinavian, European, and American traditions.This architectural tour brings to light the genius and influence of Harrie T. Lindeberg, a leader of the American Country House Era who synthesized Scandinavian, European,...- $60.00
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Vendor:Stuart Cohen
Inventing the New American House: Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architect
A timely reappraisal of the importance of Howard Van Doren Shaw, a country house architect better known in his day than Frank Lloyd Wright but now an obscure figure. Howard Van Doren Shaw designed stately country houses in and around Chicago - from affluent...- $65.00
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Vendor:Philip Jodidio
The Japanese House Reinvented
An overview of 50 recent houses whose daring forms respond to challenging constraints, demonstrating Japan's enduring commitment to design innovation.Although Japanese architects have to contend with very particular constraints, from tiny plots in crowded urban contexts to ever-present seismic threats, their innovative solutions to...- $60.00
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Vendor:Richard Guy Wilson
Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount
The Mount, Edith Wharton's country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth.The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book...- $45.00
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Vendor:Michael Hall
Lasting Elegance: English Country Houses 1830-1900
Lush color and duotone photographs of England's lavish Victorian country mansions will appeal to architecture and early photography enthusiasts, Anglophiles, and all those who have visited or would like to visit these historic structures.The great English country house tradition reached its apotheosis in the...- $65.00
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Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones
Honored with the 1990 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement, Fay Jones is an Arkansas original. In receiving the medal from Prince Charles of Great Britain, Jones was hailed as a "powerful and special genius who embodies nearly...- $19.95
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Vendor:Kevin Murphy
The American Townhouse
The American townhouse is one of the most popular house types in urban America. This comprehensive volume tours the reader through 25 stunning examples of townhouses and rowhouses from Boston to Brooklyn, St. Louis to San Francisco. Radek Kurzaj's striking photographs complement a fascinating...- $45.00
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Vendor:Kathryn S. Smith
Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital
Washington, D.C., conjures images of marble monuments, national memorials, and world-class museums. To many, the world beyond the National Mall is invisible. Yet within an area of only 68 square miles lies a residential city of diversity, beauty, and charm. In the long-awaited update...- $50.00
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Vendor:Peter Mikus
So You're Looking for a Builder: How to Find the Best Builder for Your Job
Are you planning on building a house or an extension or renovation on an existing one, or even just a retaining wall or a gazebo for your garden? If so, this is a must-read book that will likely save you time, money and stress....- $11.99
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Vendor:Myrtle Stedman
Adobe Architecture: A Simple Guide with Plans for Building with Earth
Dreaming of building an adobe home? This classic guide, with floor plans ranging from a small casita to larger ones gives 18 comprehensive period designs for the traditional adobe (the earthern "bricks" used all over the world) house adapted to building materials, plumbing, heating...- $29.95
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Vendor:Karen Fults Kaler
Eastcliff: History of a Home
An illustrated tour of this historic mansion on the Mississippi River, now the official home of the president of the University of Minnesota--and the most-visited public residence in the state Built as a family home in 1922 by lumber baron Edward Brooks, Eastcliff, a...- $29.95
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Vendor:Jason Priestly
Eltham Palace
Eltham Palace is famous for its links with royalty and national events over a period of three and a half centuries, between the reigns of Edward I and James I. This richly illustrated book follows these important moments in the building's history, along with...- $38.99
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Vendor:Phaidon Phaidon Editors
Living in the Forest
A spectacular collection of 50 magnificent contemporary houses across the globe, each built to exist harmoniously amid the trees Take a walk through luscious jungles, get lost among snowy evergreens, and look out from mossy banks across vast Nordic fjords in Living in the...- $49.95
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Vendor:Elizabeth J. Stewart
Courts and Alleys: A History of Liverpool Courtyard Housing
Liverpool was a burgeoning trading centre and rapidly growing town in the early 18th century, developing into a thriving mercantile metropolis by the 19th century. The demand for new housing was high, and court housing largely filled that need. Court housing was a form...- $19.95
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Vendor:Mike Kelley
A View from the Top
The photography collected in A View from the Top may have arisen out of a desire to document a singular body of work--the Viewpoint Collection. Through Kelley's eye, lens, and postproduction choices, however, it advances the very way that buildings can be photographed and...- $75.00
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Vendor:Patrick Ahearn
History Reinterpreted: The Myles Standish Hotel
History Reinterpreted, the second published work from celebrated architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects Patrick Ahearn, explores the renovation and reimagination of the 1871 Myles Standish Hotel in Duxbury, Mass., as a grand single-family residence. Highlighting how new life and modernity...- $45.00
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Vendor:Paul Lewis
Manual of Biogenic House Sections
Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low embodied carbon (earth and stone) or reuse...- $39.95
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Vendor:Robert Lemon
An Architect's Address Book: The Places That Shaped a Career
An Architect's Address Book is a memoir in 18 chapters of the places Robert Lemon has lived, studied, and worked over the past six decades. Some are of places that he has visited many times and are important to his career. Studying architecture and...- $33.00
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Vendor:Eyp
Boundless: 50 Years of Curiosity
Highlighting 50 years of curiosity, Boundless is about pushing the limits of "What's possible?" It highlights the history of EYP, an interdisciplinary design firm, and its unique culture through a rich body of work. Shared in three parts--roots, complexities, and possibilities--each section tells a...- $45.00
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Vendor:Paul Masi
Architecture of Place: Bates Masi + Architects
To respond to the unique opportunities of each client and site, Bates Masi + Architects has developed an approach rather than a devotion to a particular style. Careful study of the needs of the site and owners uncovers a guiding concept particular to each...- $65.00
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Vendor:Victor Deupi
Pavilion Living: Architecture, Patronage, and Well-Being
A fascinating look at an outstanding example of outdoor living architecture and design.Pavilion Living looks at the architecture of three recently completed pavilions by Peter Zimmerman Architects on the gardens of a large private house on Philadelphia's architecturally rich, historic Main Line, and the...- $75.00
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Vendor:Aaron Betsky
Field House: Birdseye - Masterpiece Series
A striking addition to the Birdseye Masterpiece series celebrating sustainable and innovative rural modernism. Field House showcases a distinctive Rhode Island residence designed by the award-winning Vermont architecture and building firm Birdseye. Fronted by an open meadow and otherwise surrounded by a deciduous forested...- $65.00
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Vendor:Franklin Toker
Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has...- $30.00
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Vendor:Sarah Messer
Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in Ho use
In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America's fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house's original owner, Walter...- $24.00
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Vendor:Dietrich Neumann
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe. Villa Wolf in Gubin: History and Reconstruction
Villa Wolf in Guben (now Gubin), built between 1925 and 1927, was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's first decidedly modern building. The residential building was destroyed at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate post-war period. The building practice of...- $39.95
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Vendor:Inha Jung
Constructing the Socialist Way of Life: North Korea's Housing and Urban Planning
What Architectural Drawings Reveal about North Korea Housing and urban planning constitute a key element of the material foundation of North Korea. In the post-war era, the country attempted to socialize all types of living spaces based on political ideology, from small apartment rooms...- $39.95
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Vendor:Alison K. Hoagland
The Row House in Washington, DC: A History
With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house. Row houses have long been an important component...- $65.00
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Vendor:S. F. Jerry Cook III
California Colonial Homes: Case Studies with Prominent Architects
Work by over 30 leading architects of the Spanish Revival movement in California during the 1920s and '30s is featured in this beautifully illustrated book. Drawn from the era's leading architectural journals, these case studies document the "best of" residential design during this influential...- $39.95
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Vendor:Tinatin Gurgenidze
Eastern Block Stories: Visualising Housing Estates from Post-Socialist Cities
The title Eastern Block Stories features dozens of articles and over 60 unique hand-picked images about mass housing estates in former communist states. This book aims to address the blind spots to take a closer look at the major challenges for post-socialist housing estates...- $39.95
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Vendor:Testa
Sepra & Clorindo Testa: Banco de Londres Y América del Sud, 1959-1966: O'Nfm Vol. 4
The Banco de Londres y Am rica del Sud in Buenos Aires was built between 1959 and 1966 through the efforts of a large team of designers and engineers, headed by the collaborative offices of Sepra and Clorindo Testa. Long admired by connoisseurs of...- $60.00
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Vendor:Ulrike Wietzorrek
Housing+: On Thresholds, Transitions, and Transparencies
Author: Ulrike WietzorrekISBN-10: 3034606141ISBN-13: 9783034606141Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2013Pages: 456Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.40lbsSize: 12.40h x 9.20w x 1.50d- $98.00
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Vendor:Brad Wray
Consolidation: Ideas, Process and Spatial Storytelling: Branch Studio Architects
Consolidation: Ideas, Process and Spatial Storytelling features a selection of Branch Studio Architects' buildings and projects from a ten-year period (2012-22). This new book traces the process of ideas and project-making, and how these translate through materiality, space and light to tell stories about...- $39.95
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Vendor:Suzanne Kasler
Suzanne Kasler: Edited Style
Heralded as one of America's most influential interior designers, Suzanne Kasler has always had her finger on the pulse of emerging home style. This completely original compendium of her firm's new interiors is all about selectivity--a wealth of au courant design ideas that resonate...- $60.00
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Vendor:Andrew Kotchen
Workshop/Apd Homes: Architecture, Interiors, and the Spaces Between
The first book from award-winning interior design and architecture firm Workshop/APD with projects ranging from sleek Manhattan apartments to Shingle Style getaways. Since its founding by Andrew Kotchen and Matt Berman, Workshop/APD has perfected a unique amalgam of traditional warmth and contemporary simplicity. All...- $55.00
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Vendor:Jamie Drake
Bold: The Interiors of Drake/Anderson
The first book from Drake/Anderson illustrates the award-winning firm's opulent modernist design with interiors that are as unique and expressive as they are inviting and livable. Principals Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson delight in creating imaginative rooms that emphasize the precious alongside the everyday....- $60.00
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Vendor:Carl Dellatore
More Is More Is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors
A vibrant new collection of the best maximalist interiors from today's top designers. Rooms of jewellike color and glorious pattern. Enchanting lacquered ceilings and geometric floors. Brilliantly massed collections of furniture, objects, and art. Although maximalism has always had a place in interior design--practiced...- $55.00
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Vendor:Ethel B. Power
Smaller Houses of the 1920s: 55 Examples
From a peak era in American domestic architecture comes this survey of homes from across the country. Its wealth of styles features both new American designs and traditional European-inspired buildings of wood, stucco, concrete, brick, and stone. The 130 captioned black-and-white illustrations and 55...- $12.95
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Vendor:Andrew Alpern
New York's Fabulous Luxury Apartments: With Original Floor Plans from the Dakota, River House, Olympic Tower and Other Great Buildings
This magnificently illustrated book reveals the architectural and decorative details of life at the top in Manhattan. More than 100 line drawings of floor plans and over 100 black-and-white photographs as well as fascinating mini-histories detail the vital statistics on 73 of New York...- $21.95
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Vendor:Annie Robinson
Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages
Robert Swain Peabody and John Goddard Stearns Jr. led one of the most popular and prolific architectural design firms in the Northeast, securing more than one thousand commissions and building a vast and vibrant repertoire, from warehouses and town houses to retail stores, banks,...- $65.00
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Vendor:Anthony Fontenot
Notes from Another Los Angeles: Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape
The first book to focus on California architect Gregory Ain's housing projects, which featured open kitchens, movable walls, and other design innovations. The Southern California architect Gregory Ain (1908-1988) collaborated with some of the most important figures of midcentury design, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard...- $49.95
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Vendor:Oscar Asensio
Interior Design: 100 Designers, 1,000 Ideas
This book presents the work of 100 leading international interior designers--some established professionals, others young and promising creative talents--and 1,000 ideas and tips on interior design. By introducing readers to these designers and their most important works in the field of interior architecture for...- $39.95
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