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Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the City by Rem Koolhaas Publisher Comments In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million that will probably reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Flexible 
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Stone by Design by Lew French Publisher Comments More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream by Paul Adamson Publisher Comments Atriums, household conveniences, and sleek styling made Eichler Homes a standard-bearer for bringing modern home design to middle-class America.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Years with Frank Lloyd Wright: Apprentice to Genius by Edgar Tafel Publisher Comments Insightful memoir by former apprentice presents a revealing portrait of Wright the man, the inspired teacher, the architect.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Palladio S Architecture and Its Influence: A Photographic Guide by Joseph C Farber Publisher Comments These 154 remarkable photographs reveal the beauty of 29 masterworks by Palladio and 37 British and American structures that embody the Palladian heritage. Captions, text by architectural history Henry Hope Reed.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Off the Grid Homes by Lori Ryker Publisher Comments Off the Grid Homes Case Studies for Sustainable Living Lori Ryker Photographs by Audrey Hall Off the Grid Homes looks at six contemporary architectural projects that integrate alternative technologies for generating and conserving energy. Being off the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $14.95 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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San Francisco Then and Now (Then & Now) by Bill Yenne Publisher Comments The natives call it simply "the City." This is the story of the changing faceof San Francisco, and how it has become one of the most picturesque cities inthe world. Seventy modern color photographs are compared side-by-side with 70archival photographs... (read more) List Price $17.98 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology by David B Williams Publisher Comments Within the fabric of every stone building is a wondrous story of geological origins, architectural aesthetics, and cultural history. You probably don't expect to make geological finds along the sidewalks of a major city, but when natural history writer... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Architecture Now! 4: Architektur Heute/L'Architeture D'Aujourd'hui by Philip Jodidio Publisher Comments Architects at the cutting edge Architecture Now Volume 3 was the winner of the prestigious Saint-Etienne Prize for the Best Architecture and Design Book of 2004. Volume 4 proves that the best keeps getting better, with new names from all over the world... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $27.95 Used - Flexible
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Earth From Above 365 Days by Yan Arthus Bertrand Book News Annotation Photographer Yann provides 365 color photographs intended to create awareness of the environment in various parts of the world. Organized chronologically, each image represents one day in the year and shows a different natural area, building, or... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice by Robert Lawlor Publisher Comments Explore a truly astonishing range of interests, philosophies, religions, and cultures -- from alchemy to angels, Buddhism to Hinduism, myth to magic. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge, visionary thinking, and accessible writing to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture by Maggie Toy Synopsis Celebrates the genius of the world's best architects -- all of whom happen to be amazing women! Covering everything from timber construction to multimedia extravaganzas, featured architects include Irena Bauman, Karen Fair-banks, Sula Kalatan, and Billie... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $2.88 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $65.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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Gehry Draws by Mark Rappolt Publisher Comments Everyone knows what the distinctive curves and lines of Frank Gehry's buildings look like. But where do they come from? Gehry has described drawing as his way of andquot;thinking aloudandquot;; Gehry Draws traces that thinking through 32 major projects... (read more) List Price $63.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth Jackson Publisher Comments This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Western Work by Dixie Legler Publisher Comments Although known primarily for his iconic midwestern buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright constructed many of his most ambitious and distinctive works in the western states. The landscape of the West charmed and astounded Wright to such a degree that it... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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