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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick Staff Pick This small, pocket-size book, 101 Things I Learned in Architectural School, is a surprise smash hit — over 100,00 copies have been sold since it was published in September 2007. As a working architect and urban planner, Matthew Frederick distills... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Creating the Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Building Big by David Macaulay Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings by Louis H Sullivan Publisher Comments 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) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Architecture Since 1900 3RD Edition Rev 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... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $21.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Publisher Comments The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Field Guide To American Houses (84 Edition) by Lee 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... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rem Koolhaas (Archipockets) by Aurora Cuito Synopsis Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam,1944) studied architecture at the AA in London--where he went on to become a lecturer--and at the IAUS in New York, during Peter Eisenman's time there. Koolhaas has always been connected with the theory of architecture, as... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 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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A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski From Powells.com Rarely 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon: 1850-1950 by William Hawkins Publisher Comments 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) List Price $49.95 Your price: $27.95 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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Thermal Delight in Architecture by Lisa Heschong Publisher Comments 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) List Price $20.50 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Country Houses by Dominic Bradbury Publisher Comments Dominic Bradbury explores how architects today are reinventing the country house and developing a new rural architecture for the 21st century.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments This immensely popular, witty, and highly provocative book is changing people's attitudes about convenience, decor, and technology in home design and furnishing. 10 black-and-white illustrations.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live (P.S.) by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments This lyrical, room-by-room exploration of the American home past, present, and future reveals how houses reflect identity and affect daily lives.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seattle Then and Now by James Madison Collins Publisher Comments Readers can view Seattle before the futuristic Space Needle shot toward the heavens for the 1962 World's Fair in this book which places 70 modern photos of Seattle landmarks side by side with 70 archival shots from the 1850s to the 1950s.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Digital Drawing for Designers: A Visual Guide to AutoCAD by Douglas R Seidler Publisher Comments AutoCAD has long been the industry standard for digital drawing--but how do you decide which manual to use? Neither simplistic nor exhaustive, Digital Drawing for Designers teaches by relating to what architects and interior designers understand best... (read more) List Price $89.50 Your price: $65.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes by John Forester Publisher Comments Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger between stakeholders, and power plays by manyandmdash;as well... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Catalyst Bioregional Series #9: Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Mathis Wackernagle Publisher Comments Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth and presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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