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The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest by Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason Publisher Comments This magnificent compendium is the first comprehensive exploration of the Arts and Crafts legacy in the Pacific Northwest. It traces the movement from its nineteenth century English beginnings to its flowering in Washington and Oregon through the 1920s... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Measure and Construction of the Japanese House by Heino Engel Publisher Comments A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture and its general integrative quality, the order of space and form, the flexibility of partitions and room functions and other important or unique qualities. The author describes in detail, and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shaping Structures Statics by Waclaw Zalewski Publisher Comments An innovative, highly visual guide to an essential technical facet of the architectural process.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $35.00 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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Authentic Color Schemes for Victorian Houses: Comstock S Modern House Painting, 1883 by E K Rossiter Publisher Comments This rare book invited homeowners of the Victorian era to eschew "white houses with green blinds" and join in the revolutionary trend towards colorful houses. They explain clearly how to mix primary and secondary colors to achieve such popular, mellow... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The House Book by Phaidon Publisher Comments Now available in a convenient pocket-sized mini format, this is the essential illustrated reference book for everyone interested in houses.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Strawbale Home Plans by Wayne J Bingham Publisher Comments 30 Plans to inspire you to build your strawbale dream home.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness by Elizabeth Farrelly Publisher Comments Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Global City Blues by Daniel Solomon Publisher Comments In Global City Blues, renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, Solomon discusses how architecture and cities can... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Portland Then and Now by Linda Dodds Publisher Comments Featuring black-and-white archival photos from the first half of the last century paired with modern shots of the same areas, "Portland Then and Now" documents the city's changing face. 140 photos, 70 in color.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi Publisher Comments Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.This... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Architecture Now: 100 Contemporary Architects by Philip Jodico Publisher Comments The best of architecture in the world today.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Flexible
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Antoni Gaudi by Ign De Sola Morales Publisher Comments "Color in architecture must be intense, logical, and fertile," wrote Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudà in his diary in the late 1870s. Known for his sensuous, curving, almost surreal Art Nouveau buildings-many are among Barcelona's most... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Nature of Ornament: Rhythm and Metamorphosis in Architecture by Kent Bloomer Publisher Comments The purpose of ornament-to articulate a realm of the imagination-is as important as it is misunderstood. Kent Bloomer, an outstanding sculptor and ornamenter whose work adorns the Harold Washington Library, Chicago, Reagan National Airport, Washington... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Soft Surfaces: Visual Research for Artists, Architects, and Designers with CDROM by Judy A Juracek Publisher Comments The book is tailored to research needs in scope and focus, offering examples for architects, interior designers, textile professionals, theatrical and film designers, illustrators, and graphic designers. Interviews with professionals describe how they... (read more) List Price $89.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bicknell S Victorian Buildings by Amos Bicknell Publisher Comments Originally published as Bicknell's Village Builder and Supplement, this collection of 45 cottages, villas, houses, farms, and churches form a complete village in the authentic American Victorian style. Detailed floor plans and elevations are beautifully... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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To Live in the New World: A. J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening by Judith K Major Publisher Comments A. J. Downing (1815-1852) wrote the first American treatise on landscape gardening. As editor of... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Churches by Judith Dupre Publisher Comments < p> Humble or grand, wood or marble, churches have given physical shape to humanity's highest spiritual and artistic aspirations over the past twenty centuries. These structures not only stand as monuments to God, they also offer revealing... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Ranch House by Alan Hess Publisher Comments The trend is unmistakable. The Ranch-style house, a phenomenal success in the '40s, '50s, and '60s, is making a comeback. Like the enthusiastic embrace of Modern-style houses in the past decade, the Ranch house today is being snatched up and restored all... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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