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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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Sonoma Valley Style
by Kathryn. Photography By Steven Brooke Masson Synopsis Sonoma Valley: the name alone evokes a wonderful sense of warmth, beauty, and magic. On hearing it, one envisions landscapes of sparkling rivers, verdant, vineyard-banked hillsides, and sunshine― in short, paradise. Having had this dream, those...
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The Abrams Guide to American House Styles
by William Morgan Publisher Comments Now in paperback, this authoritative book on house styles explains the unique characteristics that make a house colonial or craftsman, Modern or Deco, and any of the other approximately twenty styles of domestic architecture common in the United States...
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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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A Field Guide to American Houses
by Virginia 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...
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American Bungalow Style
by Robert Winter Publisher Comments America once had a love affair with bungalows -- and it's being rekindled coast to coast. This elegant book showcases exceptional examples and features a catalogue of period furnishings. With a flaming fire in the cozy hearth, a comfortable Morris chair,...
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Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley
by Gregory Long Publisher Comments Overlooking the majestic Hudson River, the Hudson Valley has long been a favored place to live. From the homes of the early settlers of the seventeenth century to the estates of the landed gentry of the eighteenth century and the baronial mansions of the...
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Materializing the Immaterial: The Architecture of Wallace Cunningham
by Joseph Giovannini Publisher Comments This generously illustrated book assesses the architectural vision of Wallace Cunningham, the innovative and intuitive Southern California architect whose buildings reveal light and embody motion and spirituality. From small mountain...
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University of Chicago: An Architectural Tour (Campus Guides)
by Jay Pridmore Publisher Comments The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series takes readers on a tour of the University of Chicago, an institution that since its founding in 1890 has exerted a profound impact on American higher education. This elegantly...
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism
by Felicity D Scott Publisher Comments In Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines...
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American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
by Lester R. Walker Publisher Comments In hardcover for the first time in a revised edition, and with over 1,000 illustrations, American Shelter -- the landmark reference in architectural history -- surveys and illustrates every American housing style from Native American days to the present...
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Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall
by Gil Garcetti Publisher Comments The first book on the new Disney Concert Hall, the newest Gehry to be completed....
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Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age
by Kathryn E. Holliday Publisher Comments An account of America's first known Jewish architect, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects. In buildings such as the New York State Capitol (Albany), the Tweed Courthouse and Temple Emanu-El (New York), and P. T. Barnum's mansion...
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The Chicago Architectural Club
by Wilbert Hasbrouck Synopsis In the late nineteenth century, Chicago--the birthplace of modern architecture in the United States--was a magnet for aspiring architects. The city was growing rapidly, and the seemingly endless demand for taller and more sophisticated buildings offered...
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Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design
by Diana Lind Synopsis Brooklyn Modern is the first book to explore the connection between Brooklyn's astounding rebirth and its emerging architecture. As the new cultural heart of New York, Brooklyn has recently attracted many young people interested in creating their own...
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American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century House
by Kenneth Frampton About the Author Kenneth Frampton, a professor at Columbia University, is a distinguished architectural historian and critic. David Larkin is an editor and designer whose previous Universe titles include Frank Lloyd Wright: Master Builder, Mill, and American Home....
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Victorian Houses: Treasures of Lesser-Known Examples
by Edmund V Jr Gillon Publisher Comments Edmund Gillon has photographed and Clay Lancaster commented on 116 remarkable but lesser-known Victorian American homes. From Nova Scotia to Geneva, New York to Cape May, these rarely appreciated dwellings offer some of the best 19th-century architecture....
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Variations on a Theme Park : the New American City and the End of Public Space (92 Edition)
by Michael (ed.) Sorkin Publisher Comments America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate...
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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...
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American Country Houses of the Gilded Age (Sheldon S "Artistic Country-Seats)
by Arnold Lewis Publisher Comments Reproduces all of Sheldon’s fascinating and historically important photographs and plans for a total of 97 buildings (93 houses, 4 casinos) built during the 1880s. Adds a new, thoroughly accurate text by Arnold Lewis. Approx. 200 illustrations....
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