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At Home 1st Edition
At Home 1st Edition
by Bill Bryson
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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)

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A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
by Witold Rybczynski
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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)

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Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner (Dover Books on Architecture)
Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner (Dover Books on Architecture)
by Addison Mizner
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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)

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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
by Henry Petroski
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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)

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Massive Change a Manifesto for the Futur
Massive Change a Manifesto for the Futur
by Bruce Mau
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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)

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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books)
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books)
by David McCullough
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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)

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Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life
Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life
by Christopher Alexander
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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)

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Boundaries (00 Edition)
Boundaries (00 Edition)
by Maya Lin
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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)

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Paris, contemporary architecture
Paris, contemporary architecture
by Ardrea Gleineger
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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)

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Genius of Place: Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (11 Edition)
Genius of Place: Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (11 Edition)
by Justin Martin
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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)

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Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture
Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture
by Rizzoli
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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)

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Smart Growth in a Changing World
Smart Growth in a Changing World
by Jonathan Barnett
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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)

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Fallingwater Rising
Fallingwater Rising
by Franklin Toker
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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)

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Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment
Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment
by Cristina Valle
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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)

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Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect
Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect
by Philip Niles
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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)

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Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities
by Andre Vijoen
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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)

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Vittorio Gregotti & Associates: Gregotti Associati
Vittorio Gregotti & Associates: Gregotti Associati
by Joseph Rykwert
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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)

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The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
by John Forester
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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)

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Julia Morgan, Architect of Dreams
Julia Morgan, Architect of Dreams
by Ginger Wadsworth
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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)

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Building the Getty
Building the Getty
by Richard Meier
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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)

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