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At Home 1st Edition by Bill Bryson Staff Pick There is nothing on this planet that Bryson cannot make fascinating. In his hands, exploring the minutiae of his house becomes an adventure. (Granted, his house is a Victorian vicarage in Norfolk, England.) At Home is a joyful, chatty dip into the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner (Dover Books on Architecture) by Addison Mizner Publisher Comments Reprint of rare, handsome volume illustrates more than 30 Florida residences designed by great architect in imaginative adaptations of Spanish Colonial style. Also, such landmark creations as the Everglades Club, Via Parigi, the Singer Building, The... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski Synopsis How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s — the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Massive Change a Manifesto for the Futur by Bruce Mau Publisher Comments A modern illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. 25/02/04 ADVISED BY PUBLISHER PUBLICATION MOVED TO AUTUMN 2004 - NO DATE.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander Publisher Comments In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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Boundaries (00 Edition) by Maya Lin Publisher Comments Lin--designer of the Vietnam Memorial, the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center "Civil Rights Memorial," the Yale Women's Table, and Wave Field--presents her first book, an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris, contemporary architecture by Ardrea Gleineger Book News Annotation English edition of a critical analysis of both older and more recent developments in the Parisian cityscape in relation to their historical background. The focus is on buildings erected in the past ten years, including projects that are still under... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Genius of Place: Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (11 Edition) by Justin Martin Publisher Comments Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture by Rizzoli Publisher Comments This large-format monograph is the first to chronicle exclusively Shigeru Bans explorations in "paper architecture." Informed by a thorough and early interest in sustainable forms, his innovative practice pioneered the use of paper as a structural... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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Smart Growth in a Changing World by Jonathan Barnett Publisher Comments The United States is in the midst of a crisis of energy consumption and environmental degradation, whose costs will become increasingly clear as our population skyrockets and our cities continue to sprawl. Unchecked development in multicity regions has... (read more) List Price $50.75 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fallingwater Rising by Franklin Toker Publisher Comments Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment by Cristina Valle Publisher Comments In an age of "McMansions," this international survey of the latest in residential architecture proves that small is beautiful-and responsible. The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect by Philip Niles Publisher Comments The Central Library, Benson Hotel, Reed College, the Meier & Frank building, the U.S. National Bank these are just a few of the grand Portland icons designed by Albert E. Doyle. During a period of rapid growth in Portland, Oregon, after the Lewis &... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities by Andre Vijoen Publisher Comments This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural... (read more) Your price: $40.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Vittorio Gregotti & Associates: Gregotti Associati by Joseph Rykwert Publisher Comments Vittorio Gregotti is one of the best known architects of his generation in Italy. Beginning in the 1950s, Gregotti produced many large-scale housing projects, supermarkets and department stores for the Italian chain La Rinascente, college campuses... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 many--as well as... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Julia Morgan, Architect of Dreams by Ginger Wadsworth Publisher Comments These informative and inspiring biographies will give young readers a look at the lives of some of the world's most influential people in history. Each over 100 pages, the books are also ideal for reports.... (read more) List Price $25.26 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Building the Getty by Richard Meier Publisher Comments One of America's most eminent architects tells us what it was like to undertake the architectural commission of the century: the building of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Writing with wit and passion and in engrossing detail, Richard Meier takes us... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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