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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) Your price: $12.95 New - Hardcover 
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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) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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1000 Ideas by 100 Architects by Sergi Costa Duran Synopsis Architecture is an art form that provides both function and beauty. Each architect brings something uniquely distinct to his or her work. Learning what makes an architectural work or the body of an architect's work unique is difficult to deconstruct... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism: Collected Essays, 1964-1988 by Robert A. M. Stern Synopsis Robert A. M. Stern is one of contemporary architecture's most influential figures, with a career encompassing every facet of the profession: he has a flourishing private practice; he is a noted authority on New York architectural history; his own... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Hearts of the City: The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp by Herbert Muschamp Publisher Comments The best work of the late Herbert Muschamp, former architecture critic of The New York Times, and one of the most outspoken, lively, and influential voices in architectural criticism. Gathered here are pieces from The New Republic, The New York Times... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $27.95 Used - Hardcover
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Architectural Design #37: Architectures of the Near Future: Architectural Design by Nic Clear Publisher Comments In this highly pertinent issue, guest-editor Nic Clear questions received notions of the future. Are the accepted norms of economic growth and expansion the only means by which society can develop and prosper? Should the current economic crisis be making... (read more) List Price $48.25 Your price: $45.00 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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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : the Strife of Love in a Dream (03 Edition) by Colonna Publisher Comments The most famous book of the Renaissance is now triumphantly translated into English by Joscelyn Godwin, who succeeds in reproducing all its wayward charm and arcane learning in language accessible to the modern reader.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books by Jo (edt) Steffens Publisher Comments What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? Unpacking My... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $20.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Experiencing Architecture: 2nd Edition by Steen E Rasmussen Publisher Comments Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - 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: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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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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The City in History by Lewis Mumford Publisher Comments The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.<BR>... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) by Christoph Alexander Publisher Comments "These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Building Studies #5: Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery by Elizabeth Gamard Publisher Comments The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking Architecture 2ND Edition Expanded Edition by Peter Zumthor Publisher Comments In order to design a building with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. This book, whose first edition has been out of print for years, has been expanded to include three new essays:... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $32.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture by Paul Goldberger Publisher Comments PAUL GOLDBERGER ON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURE The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger's tenure at... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham Publisher Comments First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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