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The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
by Sarah Susanka  Publisher Comments Sarah Susanka contends that people are naturally drawn to intimate spaces. Large structures inspired by outdated patterns tend to result in houses that just don?t work. In The Not So Big House, she proposes clear guidelines for creating homes that serve...
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Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details That Bring a Home to Life
by Sarah Susanka Publisher Comments In her latest book, best-selling author of The Not So Big House Sarah Susanka teams up with architectural design writer Marc Vassallo to expand upon the message that has resonated with over a million homeowners and builders across the country: opting for...
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Techniques for Estimating Materials, Costs, and Time for Interior Designers (Rev 01 Edition)
by Carol A. Sampson Synopsis This latest edition of the classic manual includes all-new sections on faux finishings, Roman shades, and upholstery fabrics as well as a new chapter on hard floor coverings....
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The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture
by Alanna Stang Publisher Comments In their international survey of contemporary house design, Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne herald the emergence of a new architecture: one that is as aesthetically compelling as it is environmentally friendly. Leaving behind the clunky, mud...
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The New Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically Sound Home
by David Pearson Publisher Comments This completely revised and redesigned edition of the bestselling Natural House Book brings you hundreds of practical energy- and money-saving ideas to enhance your home, your environment, and your well-being. Originally published in 1989, The Natural...
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Creating the Not So Big House
by Sarah Susanka Synopsis A sequel to The Not So Big House focuses on comfort, lifestyle, and durability by exploring twenty new homes and five remodels that encompass a vast array of styles, climates, and landscapes. Original. 50,000 first printing....
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Patterns of Home : Ten Essentials of Enduring Design (05 Edition)
by Max Jacobson Publisher Comments The key to creating a house that is memorable, satisfying, and enduring is to apply a group of design concepts--or patterns--that focus on the experience of being in a home. In this groundbreaking work, internationally respected architects Max Jacobson...
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An Architectural Guidebook to Portland
by Bart King Publisher Comments Portland strikes a unique balance between the rich architectural traditions of the past and the cutting-edge creative developments of modern architecture. Within a small downtown area can be found 19th-century cast-iron-front buildings, skyscrapers, old...
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick Publisher Comments This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and...
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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
by Peter Katz Publisher Comments The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small...
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Architecture Now Volume 2
by Philip Jodidio Synopsis At the dawn of the 21st century, architecture is entering a paradigm shift; no longer can it be completely distinguished from art. This follow-up to the popular and groundbreaking book "Architecture Now!," follows the latest and most important...
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Prefab Modern
by Jill Herbers Publisher Comments For many, the idea of prefab housing may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life. But this idea couldn't be more wrong! Rather, the newest trends in prefab has emerged as a great way for a design- (and cost-) conscious...
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Mini House
by Alejandro Bahamon 
Powells.com Staff Pick Tired of McMansions? Take a gander at Mini House, which features more than twenty-five tiny houses, lofts, and studios designed by top architects. The emphasis is on light, storage, and usability with high-quality materials. Integration of architecture...
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Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans (Flora Levy Humanities)
by S Frederick Starr Publisher Comments Southern Comfort details the magnificent architecture and planning of the Garden District of New Orleans. Through the histories of the developers, owners, architects, laborers, and craftspeople who shaped this district, the book creates a picture of the...
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Modern Architecture Since 1900
by William J. R. Curtis Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and...
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest
by Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason Publisher Comments This magnificent compendium is the first comprehensive exploration of the Arts and Crafts legacy in the Pacific Northwest. It traces the movement from its nineteenth century English beginnings to its flowering in Washington and Oregon through the 1920s...
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Programs and Manifestos on 20TH-century Architecture (70 Edition)
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...
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
Publisher Comments Buildings have often been studied whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. Architects (and architectural historians) are interested only in a building's original intentions. Most are dismayed by what happens later, when a...
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Hidden Dimension (Large Format) (82 Edition)
by Edward Twitchell Hall Publisher Comments An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural...
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Suzhou Museum
by Antony (edt) White Synopsis Spectacular new museum designed by the master of high, modernist architecture: I.M. Pei, one of the most successful architects of the 20th century....
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