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Architecture

New Arrivals $45.00 Hardcover add to wishlist A History of the Future Donna Goodman $29.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect Philip Niles $24.98 Hardcover add to wishlist 30 Bridges Matthew Wells $29.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Big Box Reuse Julia Christensen $55.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Andrea Branzi: Open Enclosures Andrea Branzi $19.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Taj Mahal (Wonders of the World) Giles Tillotson $45.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations Hilary French $60.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Houses in the Sun: Light, Movement, Embrace Steven House $29.95 Softcvr W/comp Media add to wishlist Living Small: The Life of Small Houses Dennis Fukai $113.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods Edward Allen $60.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger Daniel Libeskind $65.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Deborah Berke Deborah Berke United States West Portland Then and Now by Linda Dodds Publisher Comments Featuring black-and-white archival photos from the first half of the last century paired with modern shots of the same areas, "Portland Then and Now" documents the city's changing face. 140 photos, 70 in color.... (read more) Your Price $9.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Sale Books Creating the Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka Publisher Comments This sequel to "The Not So Big House" thoughtfully considers 20 new homes and five remodels that span a broad range of styles, climates, and landscape considerations to show how the not-so-big ideal can work in any setting. Photos. Illustrations.... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Greene & Greene: Masterworks by Bruce Smith Publisher Comments In the first decades of the 20th century, Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene almost single-handedly defined the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in America as the architectural firm Greene & Greene. The only full-color survey of the firm's... (read more) Your Price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Architecture to your inbox Landscape Architecture Sunset Western Garden Book 8TH Edition by Sunset Publisher Comments Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of... (read more) Your Price $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Urban Planning Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect by Philip Niles Publisher Comments "All new things built with the idea of preserving the beauty of the city and adding to it." A. E. Doyle The Central Library, Benson Hotel, Reed College, the Meier & Frank building, the U.S. National Bank — these are just a few of the grand... (read more) Your Price $29.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies United States General An Architectural Guidebook to Portland by Bart King Publisher Comments Portland strikes a unique balance between the rich architectural traditions of the past and the cutting-edge creative developments of modern architecture. Within a small downtown area can be found 19th-century cast-iron-front buildings, skyscrapers, old... (read more) Your Price $22.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Reference 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick Publisher Comments This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and... (read more) Your Price $12.95 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Arts and Crafts Art Nouveau and Art Deco 500 Bungalows by Doug Keister Publisher Comments Popularity meets affordability as America's favorite house style (according to a 2005 survey on About/Architecture.com) comes at a price point that every bungalow fan can afford. There is perennial interest in all things bungalow related. Every year... (read more) Your Price $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Bridges Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the... (read more) Your Price $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Pocket Books The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Green Architecture Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Powells.com Staff Pick "An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!" Scott Smith, Powells.com... (read more) Your Price $15.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Houses Builders of the Pacific Coast by Lloyd Kahn Publisher Comments A continuation of Lloyd Kahn’s journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes — their innovative techniques, use of sustainable materials, and essential dedication to the natural elements surrounding their designs —... (read more) Your Price $26.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies

Bestsellers Thursday December 4, 2008 Portland Then and Now by Linda Dodds Sunset Western Garden Book 8TH Edition by Sunset Beauty of the City by Philip Niles The Portland Bridge Book by Sharon Wood Wortman and Ed Wortman An Architectural Guidebook to Portland by Bart King Enter to Win! Sign up for email updates from Powell's, and you could win $250 in books! You may unsubscribe at any time. email address Special offers Kids' books Local readings and events Technica Review-a-Day Powells.com is proud to be the official bookseller of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center. Read about our privacy policy here.

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