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Inigo: The Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of English Renaissance by Michael Leapman Publisher Comments The first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design. Yet this self-taught son of a Smithfield cloth worker was to bring classicism to England and his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Boston, Then and Now (Then & Now Views) by Peter Vanderwarker Publisher Comments Dramatic juxtaposition of old and new photographs reveals architectural richness of Boston. 59 side-by-side views document city's growth between 1850 and 1980. Here are narrow streets surrounded by skyscrapers and building facades that range from early... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Architecture by Warren Sanderson Review Some 35 architects and architectural historians have contributed to this voluminous survey of postwar architecture and planning. Six introductory essays are followed by 32 articles surveying work done primarily in Europe and the American continents. Each... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Apremont (Small Books of Great Gardens) by Gilles De Brissac Synopsis The towered castle and follies enhance the effect of this French park.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jean Nouvel by Llorenc Bonet Synopsis Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) studied and started his working life in May 1968 in France. Nouvel was one of the founders of the Mars 1967 movement, which adopted a very critical position on the prevailing bureaucracy and legal anachronisms in architecture... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.97 Sale - Hardcover
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In This Dark House by Louise Kehoe Publisher Comments In 1939 the influential architect Berthold Lubetkin abruptly left his thriving career in London and dropped out of sight, moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural Gloucestershire. Life in the house the Lubetkins named “Worlds End” was... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Full-Color Treasury of Historic Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archive) by Alexander Speltz Publisher Comments Chosen from among thousands of images in a massive three-volume set, this treasury offers the best and most beautiful ornaments from prehistory to the early nineteenth century. Conveniently arranged by period--Egyptian, Islamic, Baroque, Victorian, and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rattenbury: The Life and Tragic End of BC's Greatest Architect (Amazing Stories Series) by Stan Sauerwein Publisher Comments Rattenbury- The Life and Tragic End of BC's Greatest Architect "The greatest game in life is to set out to do something, strive against all difficulties, and win." - Francis Rattenbury This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Digital Architect a Common Sense Guide To Using Computer Technology in Design Practice by Ken Sanders Publisher Comments Written by an architect for design professionals, The Digital Architect is a gold mine of commonsense advice and guidance on the realities of using computer technology in design practice. Ken Sanders, AIA, takes you beyond the hyperbole to discover the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discovering English Architecture #244: Discovering English Architecture by T W West Publisher Comments A concise but comprehensive survey of the development of architecture in England from the neolithic tombs to the post war new towns.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (Dover Books on Art, Art History) by Lewis Mumford Synopsis Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fabrications by Aaron Betsky Publisher Comments Edited by Terence Riley. Text by Aaron Betsky, Mark Robbins.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Netherlands Architecture Institute: Texts, Ruud Brouwers ... (et al.); Photographical Essay, Jannes Linders; (Translation, Robyn de Jong-Dalziel) by Kristin Feireiss Publisher Comments The subject of this newly updated book is the building occupied by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), which was designed by the architect Jo Coenen and opened in 1993. NAi is one of the international centers for architectural thought and ideas,... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Flight of Fancy: The Banishment & Return of Ornament by Brent Brolin Publisher Comments Architetural Ornament reveals the fascinating interplay of art, society, politics, and commerce from antiquity through modernism and explains ornament's near demise and recent revival. It is a stunningly documented argument against artistic chauvinism... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Architecture and design, 1970-1990 :new ideas in America by Beverly Russell Publisher Comments New trends in architecture and design abound in America today. And if design is a way to respond to social conditions, if it expresses the moods and feelings of a society, the what does design in America tell us about where we as a nation are going?... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Towns and Buildings by Steen E Rasmussen Publisher Comments In the present book an effort has been made to bring the reader to look on the city as an entity which expresses certain ideals. The individual monuments, the buildings, thus become part of a whole. The cities are not all treated in the same fashion or... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Missions of California PB by Melba Levick List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Looking for City in America: Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go by Andre Corboz List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes TOC Preface 1. A man of science and invention 2. Making of an architect 3. The City churches and St Paul's 4. A public architect 5. Mechanical hand and philosophical mind Sources Index... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pioneers of modern design, from William Morris to Walter Gropius by Nikolaus Pevsner Description Bibliography: p. 219-253.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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