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Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture by Ulrich Conrads Publisher Comments The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander and Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein Staff Pick Although I am not an architect, I keep this book on my bedside table at all times, so that I can pick it up and read about how the world should be, according to Christopher Alexander. The world is made of "patterns" that work organically. These patterns... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Staff Pick Philosopher Gaston Bachelard published The Poetics of Space in 1958, many years into a prolific and prestigious career in science and French academe. A rationalist who believed rational thought was an ill-fitting framework for exploring the imagination... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick Staff Pick This small, pocket-size book, 101 Things I Learned in Architectural School, is a surprise smash hit — over 100,00 copies have been sold since it was published in September 2007. As a working architect and urban planner, Matthew Frederick distills... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.95 New - Hardcover
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Thermal Delight in Architecture by Lisa Heschong Publisher Comments Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand Publisher Comments Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities by Alexandra Lange Publisher Comments Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, is a handbook on how to write effectively and critically about the contemporary city. The book offers works by some of the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dwelling with Architecture by Roderick Kemsley Publisher Comments The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is firstly a book about houses and particularly the theme dwelling and the land . It examines the poetic and... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Trade Paper
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Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander Publisher Comments In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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Architecture: A Woman's Profession by Tanja Kullack Publisher Comments In the western world, the number of women studying architecture now roughly equals that of men. As women increasingly come to the fore as practicing professionals, the question of how this shift will affect the profession and the teaching of the... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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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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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness by Elizabeth Farrelly Publisher Comments Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age by Blair Kamin Publisher Comments For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kamin... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Chambers for a Memory Palace (94 Edition) by Donlyn Lyndon Publisher Comments This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design has played in giving these places their memorable qualities. It is also an... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - 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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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995 by Kate Nesbitt Publisher Comments Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture collects the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years. Among the paradigms presented are architectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, and deconstruction.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture by Adrian Forty Publisher Comments The words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortarthey indicate the ways we think of and live with buildings. This original and thoughtful study provides the first thorough examination of the relationship... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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