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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
by John Michael Vlach
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Splendid. Using photographs and drawings from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) dating back to the 1930s, oral histories of former slaves taken by the Federal Writers Program, antebellum travel accounts and agricultural journals, modern... ( read more)
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Ammar Eloueini: Corefab
by Ammar Eloueini
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CoReFab combines three works / fields: Concepts + Representation + Fabrication. The book documents five completed projects by Ammar Eloueni that were designed and implemented between 2003-2005. The projects are here grouped for evident similarities as... ( read more)
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User-Responsive Design: Reducing the Risk of Failure
by C Thomas Mitchell
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206) and index.... ( read more)
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Alvar Aalto
by Malcolm Quantrill
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This is a much needed and lively study of the still insufficiently known Finnish modern master Alvar Aalto, whose sensitive and increasingly revelant architectural legacy will surely only increase in stature as the years unfold.--Kenneth... ( read more)
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The Mayor's Institute: Excellence in City Design (NEA Design)
by James S Russell
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Offers guidance on using architecture, landscape architecture, art, urban design, and planning to improve space in the public realm. Since the late 1990s, the National Endowment for the Arts, under the direction of Mark Robbins, has been promoting design... ( read more)
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The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
by Sarah Susanka
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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 Large structures inspired by outdated patterns tend to result in houses that just don?t work.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... ( read more)
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Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties
by Patricia Bayer
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This exploration of Art Deco architectural design embraces many different times and places in its visual and verbal account of the movements origins, development, and influence. Various types of architecture, the author explains, were termed Art Deco... ( read more)
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Los Angeles
by Reyner Banham
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A pioneering architectural study of the seventy-mile-square city and the historical process which has made it unique as a human settlement.... ( read more)
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Eichler Homes: Design for Living
by Jerry Ditto
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More than a modern-day success story, Joseph Eichler changed the face of American architecture by creating the ultimate, affordable family home. Now, nearly 50 years after the phenomenon of the Eichler home, once a quintessential symbol of the American... ( read more)
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Toward Sustainable Communities Resources
by Mark Roseland
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Toward Sustainable Communities offers practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems in clear, accessible language. Topics include air quality, transportation and traffic management, energy conservation... ( read more)
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Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction
by Bill Henderson
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Inspiring meditations on the human drive to build skyward, from a man who did it himself "There are hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny towers to appreciate. You remember how as a child you made them out of sand or blocks or tin cans . . . Two inches or... ( read more)
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Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York
by Lewis Mumford
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Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is still revered as one of America's leading cultural critics and an international authority on architecture and urbanism.... ( read more)
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Early Mexican Houses
by G Richard Garrison
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From days of Mexican viceroys photographs, measured drawings, floor plans inspire designers.... ( read more)
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Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Modern Architecture is a landmark text: the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric... ( read more)
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Architects of the World
by Francisco As Cerver
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An homage to great representatives of international modern architecture, this edition analyzes their best works of the past five years on five continents.... ( read more)
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Underground
by David Macaulay
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David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy... ( read more)
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21st Century Hotel
by Graham Vickers
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Newly built hotels are being admired throughout the world by travelers andarchitects, and this strikingly illustrated survey features the best new designs. In the past several years, hoteliers have responded ever more boldly to their guests demands for... ( read more)
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Creating the Inspired House: Discovering Your Place Called Home
by John Connell
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Where we choose to settle, how and what we build, and how our homes feel inside and out — all are reflections of who we are. The best houses are about people.
Creating the Inspired House is full of stories of memorable characters immersed in the... ( read more)
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The Miller Hull Partnership: Public Works
by Miller Hull Partners
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Our popular 2001 monograph Miller/Hull: Architects of the Pacific Northwest introduced the world to the work of architects David Miller and Robert Hull. Their energy-conscious designs, love of local materials, and structural expressiveness helped define... ( read more)
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Cityscapes and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development
by Michael A Pagano
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As American cities seek to revitalize their urban centers and surrounding region, planners and politicians often look for quick-fix schemes. But cities that have achieved success, Michael Pagano and Ann Bowman claim, have done so through an alliance of... ( read more)
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