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American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles, Revised Edition by Marcus Whiffen Publisher Comments When Marcus Whiffen's classic introduction to American architectural styles was published in 1969, Reyner Banham called it one of the most enjoyable general works on American architecture that has ever appeared.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Architectural Follies in America by Gwyn Headley Publisher Comments Architectural Follies in America More than mere curiosities, all of the architectural follies described in this illustrated guide are masterpieces in their own right. Each is the incarnation of its creator's singular passion, vanity, or id?e fixe, from... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Americans Build and Why: Psychological Perspectives by Ann Sloan Devlin Publisher Comments What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping environments. Synthesizing information from both academic journals and the popular press, the book looks at... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Native American Architecture by Peter Nabokov Publisher Comments Native American Architecture, is the first book-length, fully illustrated study of North American Indian architecture to appear in a century. The product of 15 years of research by an architect and an anthropologist, the book presents the building... (read more) List Price $70.75 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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San Miguel's Mexican Exteriors by Sandy Baum Synopsis San Miguel de Allende, a city located in central Mexico, is steeped in history and old world charm. Many of its elegant buildings have been preserved and it is practically a museum of Spanish and Mexican history and architecture. This unique book... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $27.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Early Mexican Houses: A Book of Photographs and Measured Drawings by George W. Rustay Publisher Comments From 1925 to 1929, two young architectural draftsmen set out to record a select number of examples of the minor domestic architecture of Mexico due to a lack of measured drawings of rural ranch houses and Monterey-inspired dwellings. The result is a... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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Casa Modernista: A History of the Brazil Modern House by Alan Weintraub Publisher Comments A rediscovery of one of the most powerful schools of Modernism. On the one hand sensual and warm, on the other rational yet rhythmic, Brazilian Modernism is the soulful alternative to its European parent, better known for theoretical rigor and cold... (read more) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Encyclopedia of North American Architecture by Janice Anderson Publisher Comments This book follows the progression of American architecture from the first settlers, traders and colonists, through to the classical influence. Greek revival, Victorian and Gothic styles, etc. Then, on to the modern era. Over 500 pictures.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945 by John J G Blumenson Publisher Comments This book enables the reader to determine styles and identify architectural terms by comparing real buildings with the book's many photographs.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory by Judith Dupre Publisher Comments From the award-winning, bestselling author of "Skyscrapers, Churches," and "Bridges" comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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All American: Emerging Talent in American Architecture by Brian Carter Synopsis This volume presents the work of 20 architectural practices from every corner of the USA. It investigates the regional, theoretical and political strands relating to American culture and climate, and focuses on each studio in depth, featuring coverage of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850 by W Barksdale Maynard Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 262 Key American Buildings by Sydney Leblanc Publisher Comments This portable book takes readers on a tour of American architectural treasures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides the practical information-addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours, maps-needed to experience them at first hand-of 262... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of American Architecture (Icon Editions) by Leland M Roth About the Author Leland M. Roth is Marion Dean Ross Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oregon at Eugene. He is the author of American Architecture: A History; A Concise History of American Architecture; McKim, Mead and White, Architects; and other... (read more) List Price $61.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin American Architecture 1929-1960 by Carlos Brillembourg Publisher Comments This volume documents the golden period of Latin American architecture that was inaugurated in September 1929, when Le Corbusier was invited to lecture in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. These countries were eager to apply -- and transform -- a European... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana #34: Caribbean Modernist Architecture by Gustavo Luis More Publisher Comments In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period by Hugh Morrison Publisher Comments Hailed as "a model of scholarship" by the Saturday Review, this comprehensive survey of domestic and public architecture ranges from early settlers' primitive cabins to Greek Revival mansions of the early 1800s. Nearly 500 illustrations... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution of Forms: Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools by John A. Loomis Publisher Comments A revolution of forms is a revolution of essentials.-Jos Mart, Cuban intellectual and independence leader. Although the current surge of interest in Cuba has extended to that country's architecture, few know that the most outstanding architectural... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context by Mark Gelernter Publisher Comments A richly illustrated history of American architecture that explains why particular architectural ideas occurred when and where they did.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto by Margaret Goodfellow Publisher Comments A pocket guidebook to the extraordinary architectural revival in Toronto over the last two decades. Over the past 20 years, there has been a resurgence of city building in Toronto that has not been seen since the buoyant optimism of the 1960s. The... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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