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Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Justin Martin Publisher Comments Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Antonio Gaudi by Juan Bassegoda Nonell Publisher Comments This enlightening volume combines a knowledgeable text by the director of the Catedra Gaudi at the University of Barcelona with striking images by a noted architectural photographer to provide a new perspective on Gaudi's remarkable architectural career,... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Gehry Draws by Mark Rappolt Publisher Comments Everyone knows what the distinctive curves and lines of Frank Gehry's buildings look like. But where do they come from? Gehry has described drawing as his way of "thinking aloud"; Gehry Draws traces that thinking through 32 major projects (both built and... (read more) Your price: $63.00 New - Hardcover
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Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Gil Garcetti Publisher Comments The first book on the new Disney Concert Hall, the newest Gehry to be completed.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century by William Wixom Publisher Comments Providing a rare glimpse into one of the finest private art collections in the world, this book presents the extraordinary collection of the Neue Galerie's co-founder, Ronald S. Lauder. This book accompanies an exhibition of the Lauder collection at the... (read more) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Greene & Greene: Developing a California Architecture by Bruce Smith Publisher Comments Many books have been written about the California architects Greene & Greene, exploring their style and masterworks such as the Gamble House and Blacker House. The heart of this book is the work of Greene & Greene in their early years, up to 1906, the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $33.50 New - Hardcover
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Talking Architecture: Interviews with Architects by Hanno Rauterberg Publisher Comments Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, this revealing volume features interviews with twenty of the world's most influential living architects in which they discuss their accomplishments, challenges, inspriations, and dreams. What... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments AWARD-WINNING AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI DELIVERS A REVELATORY COLLECTION OF LINKED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS -- PART MEMOIR, PART FAMILY HISTORY -- ABOUT THE UPHEAVALS OF EUROPEAN LIVES DURING WORLD WAR II, HIS OWN INTELLECTUAL... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Architecture/Art/Parallels/Connections by Barry A Berkus Synopsis A visual and intellectual tour de force, this stimulating, copiously illustrated book traces the parallels among painting, sculpture, and architecture through a broad selection of works and sites, both historical and contemporary.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pietro Da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture by Jorg Martin Merz Publisher Comments At first a successful painter of the Roman Baroque, Pietro (Berrettini) da Cortona (1597-1669) soon emerged as an architect of equal stature. This book is the first to focus full attention on Cortona's buildings and projects and to assess his position in... (read more) Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced Renaissance... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969 by Eric Mumford Publisher Comments This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert was noted for his city planning and urban... (read more) Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Houses of the Sundown Sea Houses of the Sundown Sea: The Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner the Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner by Lisa Germany Publisher Comments For more than 60 years, passersby have strained to catch a glimpse of maverick architect Harry Gesners houses in Southern California. This is the first book to examine Gesners architecture, tracing his career from 1945 to the present and opening the... (read more) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964: Nothing Is More Abstract Than Reality by Maria Cristina Bandera Publisher Comments This volume showcases 116 masterpieces arranged into the four major themes that characterize Giorgio Morandis work: self portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and flowers. The collection represents all the various expressive techniques used by Morandi over... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Coosje Van Bruggen Publisher Comments No building has been more anticipated than Frank Gehry's stunning new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque country of northern Spain. In a cover story for the New York Times Magazine, Herbert Muschamp wrote of it, "The word is... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Gaudi of Barcelona by Lluis Permanyer Publisher Comments Color in architecture must be intense, logical and fertile, wrote Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudi in his diary in the late 1870s. Known for his sensuous, curving, almost surreal Art Nouveau buildings, Gaudi (1852-1926) is today one of the... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Lvaro Siza: Von Der Linie Zum Raum / From Line to Space by Rudolf Finsterwalder Publisher Comments Alvaro Siza gilt als einer der wichtigsten portugiesischen Architekten des 20.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Architecture of Philip Johnson by Stephen Fox Publisher Comments Philip Johnson's imprint is indelibly stamped on cities across America. From New York's AT&T (now Sony) Building to his famous Glass House in Connecticut, Johnson's innovative designs and widespead influence have made him the undisputed dean of 20th... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $30.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect by Philip Niles Publisher Comments The Central Library, Benson Hotel, Reed College, the Meier & Frank building, the U.S. National Bank — these are just a few of the grand Portland icons designed by Albert E. Doyle. During a period of rapid growth in Portland, Oregon, after the Lewis &... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Flesh: Architectural Probes by Elizabeth Diller Synopsis Like all the work of architects Liz Diller + Ric Scofidio, Flesh is a set of contradictions and complexities. Itis both a monograph of their workthe first ever on their art, architecture, and installationsbut also not a traditional monograph. It is a... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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