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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand Publisher Comments Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (83 Edition) by Frank Lloyd Wright Publisher Comments 207 rare photos of Oak Park period, first great buildings: Unity Temple, Dana house, Larkin factory, more. Complete photos of Wasmuth edition. New Introduction.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Books on Architecture (60 Edition) by Vitruvius Publisher Comments The most important book ever written on architecture. Early Roman aesthetics, technology, classical orders, site selection, all other aspects. Morgan translation.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Modern: California Houses 1940-1970 by Alan Hess Publisher Comments Forgotten Modern reveals the work of the innovative architects building in California from the 1930s to the 1970s. With groundbreaking and illuminating examples that will alter the way we think of California architecture, Hess and Weintraub focus on... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Main Street Revisited Time Space and Image Building in Small Town America (96 Edition) by Richard V. Francaviglia Publisher Comments Main Street has come to symbolize a place of honest aspirations and few pretenses, a place where economics, community pride, and entertainment generate an intuitive appreciation of the small town as a vital part of the American experience. As an... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000 by John Archer Publisher Comments The American suburban dream house-a single-family, detached dwelling, frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs-has been attacked for some time as homogeneous and barren, yet the suburbs are home to half of the American population... (read more) Your price: $33.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cuba: 400 Years of Architectural Heritage by Rachel Carley Publisher Comments Exquisite, rare photographs and timely, illuminating commentary reveal a rich architectural history waiting to be rediscovered as travel to Cuba burgeons among Canadian, European, and Latin American tourists and gradually becomes more accessible to... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chinese Architecture : Pictorial History (05 Edition) by Liang Ssu-ch'eng Publisher Comments Based on years of unprecedented field studies by the author, more than 240 rare photographs and drawings depict temples, pagodas, tombs, bridges, and imperial palaces. 152 halftones, 94 diagrams.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change by Ada Louise Huxtable Publisher Comments The architectural revolution of the twentieth century as witnessed by Americas preeminent architecture critic. Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories by Edward Hollis Publisher Comments A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-a.D. 250 by John R. Clarke Publisher Comments In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house with Roman eyes. Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $34.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic by Michael Olmert Book News Annotation This survey of small 18th century "outbuildings" through the Mid-Atlantic details the architectural styles of these outdoor privies, smokehouses, kitchens and small offices. Olmert (English literature, U. of Maryland) uses nearly 100 black-and-white... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City's Landmarks by Anthony C Wood Publisher Comments Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect A City's Landmarks is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the men... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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A History of Building Types (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Nikolaus Pevsner Publisher Comments Available again in paperback, this first survey of building types ever written remains an essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West. Here Nikolaus Pevsner shares his immense erudition... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $21.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World's Greatest Architecture: Past and Present by D M Field Publisher Comments In this comprehensive study, 445 of the world's greatest and most exciting buildings are explored, from the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the high-tech skyscrapers of the modern world, and the brilliant architects who created them.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Recording Historic Structures by John A. (edt) Burns Publisher Comments This new edition of the definitive guide to recording America's built environment provides a detailed reference to the re-cording methods and techniques that are fundamental tools for examining any existing structure. Edited by the Deputy Chief of the... (read more) List Price $82.75 Your price: $74.25 New - Hardcover
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The Architecture of the United Arab Emirates Synopsis Since the late 1960s, the cities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have experienced unprecedented development and accelerated construction. Viewed in the context of the specific environment and cultural fabric of this desert region in Arabia, the coming... (read more) Your price: $120.00 New - Hardcover
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Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C. by Scott W. Berg Publisher Comments In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ghosts of Berlin : Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (97 Edition) by Brian Ladd Publisher Comments In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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