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Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the City
by Rem Koolhaas
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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)
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
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Ever wonder why we have suburbs? Or why we wanted them in the first place? What about the lovely ideal of the Parisian street lined with cafes and shops? Why don't we have more of those? Or would we want them at all? Then read this! If you live in, near,... ( read more)
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Creating the Not So Big House
by Sarah Susanka
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The Not So Big House created a movement that is changing the way people think about the American home. That groundbreaking book proposed a new blueprint for the American home: a house that values quality over quantity, with an emphasis on comfort and... ( read more)
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
by Christopher Alexander and Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
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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)
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A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
by Witold Rybczynski
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are biographer and subject so well-matched as in Witold Rybczynski's seminal
biography of the great nineteenth century landscape architect, Frederick
Law Olmsted. In such classic works as Home:
The Short History of an Idea and City... ( read more)
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
by Anthony Flint
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To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone... ( read more)
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What Is Architecture?: An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines
by Paul Shepheard
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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)
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Building Big
by David Macaulay
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In this companion book to the PBS series, the design and construction process of structures such as bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes, and dams are explored. Macaulay shows that common sense and logic play just as important roles as imagination. Full... ( read more)
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A Field Guide to American Houses
by Virginia Mcalester
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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... ( read more)
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
by Kenneth Jackson
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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)
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Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon: 1850-1950
by William Hawkins
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The majority of Portland's classic houses are still standing, a rich legacy and essential link to a time of stunning architectural accomplishment. This lavishly illustrated volume features more than 300 residences representing twenty-three distinct... ( read more)
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The Builders: Marvels of Engineering
by National Geographic
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Engineering wonders of the world are featured in six thematic
chapters that focus on overcoming distance (roads, canals, bridges,
railroads, pipelines), height and depth (towers, tunnels,
skyscrapers), public spaces (sports arenas, exposition halls... ( read more)
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101 Classic Homes of the Twenties: Floor Plans and Photographs
by Harris Mchenry & Bak
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Authentic plan book advertises homes chosen for aesthetic appeal, convenience, and economy of construction. Ranging in scale from lavish to modest, each model appears with detailed floor plans, measurements, and a photograph of completed dwelling.... ( read more)
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Authentic Small Houses of the Twenties: Illustrations and Floor Plans of 254 Characteristic Homes (Dover Books on Architecture)
by Robert T Jones
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Modestly priced, richly illustrated reprint of rare guidebook published by Architects' Small House Service Bureau. Designs, floor plans, construction materials, prices for wide variety of small homes. Over 800 line drawings and photographs.... ( read more)
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis
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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)
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Thermal Delight in Architecture
by Lisa Heschong
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Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design.
Until quite recently... ( read more)
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Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings
by Louis H Sullivan
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One of America’s most original and influential architects, known for his many commercial buildings, expounds his theories in his most famous book. Reprint of definitive (1918) edition including 8 additional papers. 17 illustrations.... ( read more)
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Weekend Utopias: Modern Living in the Hamptons
by Alastair Gordon
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The Hamptons, New York's fashionable summer beach resorts, are well known as weekend havens for city-dwellers who relish their idyllic setting on the Atlantic shore. Once quiet agricultural land, Eastern Long Island first became popular among artists... ( read more)
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New Country Houses
by Dominic Bradbury
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Dominic Bradbury explores how architects today are reinventing the country house and developing a new rural architecture for the 21st century.... ( read more)
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Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer
by Ronald T Labaco
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Born in 1917, Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass is today best known as the founder in the early 1980s of Memphis, the Milan-based design collaborative. As a harbinger of Postmodern design, Memphis - and soon Sottsass himself - became the... ( read more)
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