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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 $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Shop! Best of Store Design by Not Available (na) Synopsis Shopping is an event which implies much more than just the act of purchasing. Unusual design concepts and immaculate shapes engage all of our senses, making shopping a unique experience. The range is complete between minimalist designs with reduced... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice by American Institute Publisher Comments REDEFINING THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE CLIENT BUSINESS DELIVERY SERVICES This fourth companion volume to the Thirteenth Edition of The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice brings architects and others working in the architectural community new... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $40.00 Sale - Hardcvr W/Comp Media
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Field Guide To American Houses (84 Edition) by Lee Mcalester Publisher Comments For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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 $24.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dance!: Best of Club Design by Braun (edt) Synopsis In New York, Berlin and Tokyo, night is the new day, and life is celebrated in some of the most unusual clubs around. With unique style and creative design, a culture of its own is staged. The wide field of international design is presented using... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - 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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Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde (Writing Architecture) by K. Michael Hays Publisher Comments While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture's history, there has been no general theory of that ethos. Now, in Architecture's... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Elements of Style: An Encyclopedia of Domestic Architectural Detail by Stephen Calloway Publisher Comments An impressive reference work. - Library Journal (on the 1997 edition) A richly detailed and easy-to-use reference to 500 years of architectural details and styles. Owners and potential buyers of period houses, restorers, architects, interior designers... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $50.00 Used - Hardcover
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From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe Synopsis Tom Wolfe, America's most skillful satirist (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word.... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton Staff Pick Alain de Botton writes with a fluid, lyrical style about the aesthetics of environment ... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture (83 Edition) by Cyril M. Harris Publisher Comments This massive compendium by a noted architectural historian contains over 2,000 line drawings, and clear, concise definitions for over 5,000 important terms relating to the architectural achievements of a great variety of world cultures, ancient to modern.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool (Graham Foundation/Mit Press Series in Contemporary Architect) by Thomas Leeuwen Publisher Comments The book is the second in a planned tetralogy by the author, with each volume centered on the relationship of architecture to one of the four classical elements.... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is Architecture?: An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines by Paul Shepheard Publisher Comments British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot... (read more) List Price $22.75 Your price: $5.95 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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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. by Gerard Martin Moeller Publisher Comments The fourth edition of the venerable AIA guide to Washington's architecture offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 400 of the city's most important architectural landmarks, organized into 19 discrete tours. All... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Writings on Architecture by Adam Caruso by Adam Caruso Publisher Comments A principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. John, Gritty Brit Adam Caruso has been writing intensively since the mid-1990s. His essays, published in The Architect's Journal, OASE, Blueprint and Tate, focus on architectural practice... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Human Dimension and Interior Space: A Source Book of Design Reference Standards by Julius Panero Publisher Comments The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space. Human... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Drawing for Architecture (Writing Architecture) by Leon Krier Publisher Comments Architect Leon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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