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Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse Publisher Comments The last thirty years of the twentieth century saw the birth of more than six hundred art museums in the United States alone, with equal proliferation in much of Europe. Such projects as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao and Richard Meier's Getty Center... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Mexican Churches by Eliot Porter Publisher Comments In 1956, on an extended trip through Mexico, famed photographer Eliot Porter and his photographer friend Ellen Auerbach visited several hundred churches and chapels. Hundreds of years old, the churches were often far from main roads and only very rarely... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Gil Garcetti Publisher Comments The first book on the new Disney Concert Hall, the newest Gehry to be completed.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Greene & Greene: Developing a California Architecture by Bruce Smith Publisher Comments Many books have been written about the California architects Greene & Greene, exploring their style and masterworks such as the Gamble House and Blacker House. The heart of this book is the work of Greene & Greene in their early years, up to 1906, the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $41.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cool Hotels Europe by Martin N Kunz Publisher Comments Cool Hotels Europe is an extensive compilation of the most contemporary hotels in Europe and Scandinavia, all of which have been chosen because they represent the best in innovative design. Copiously illustrated with hundreds of color photographs of... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Flexible
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Axonometric & Oblique Drawing a 3D Construction Rendering & Design Guide by M Saleh Uddin Publisher Comments With their parallel lines and lack of vanishing-point perspective, axonometrics and obliques provide a clear, uncluttered vehicle for communicating spatial impact and the totality of a design idea. This first-ever complete designers and renderers guide... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Tradition of Modern Architecture #1: History of Modern Architecture - Vol. 1 by Leonardo Benevolo Publisher Comments Let it be said at once that the format of this work is richly handsome: it is a two-volume boxed set comprising 844 pages and well over 1,000 high-quality illustrations, and it reflects throughout its publisher's conviction that good design is an... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Adobe: Building & Living with Earth by Orlando Romero Publisher Comments This book tells the story of adobe, sun-dried brick houses, popular in the desert Southwest and California. It is a story that travels from Asia and North America to the Iberian Peninsula, from the history-filled Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life 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: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Architecture Pack by Ron Van Der Meer Synopsis An interactive chronicle of the history of world architecture combines dramatic three-dimensional, pop-up illustrations of the world's architectural masterpieces, accompanied by working models of key building components, color illustrations, and an audio... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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In Search of Natural Architecture by David Pearson Publisher Comments 150 photographs of ancient and modern architecture, taken by the author when travelling the world. All photographs show architcture that is sympathetic either to people or to the natural environment.... (read more) Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Landscape Urbanism Reader by Charles Waldheim Publisher Comments With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first- century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discipline has emerged: landscape urbanism. In The... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Philadelphia: Lost Architecture of the Quaker City by Thomas H Keels Synopsis How does a landmark become, after just a few generations, a landfill? In Forgotten Philadelphia, Thomas Keels takes the reader through a lavishly illustrated journey through three centuries of Philadelphia's architecture: what was built, how the... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward S Morse Publisher Comments In this book the author writes about the more than 4 years he spent visiting hundreds of Japanese homes and learning as much as possible about their construction, design, furnishings, and relative merits. It is the only authentic record of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portland Bridge Book: 1989 Edition by Sharon Wood Wortman Book News Annotation Wortman offers technical information, history, and anecdotes for 12 bridges across the Willamette River, two across the Columbia River, and several railroad bridges in the Portland (Oregon) vicinity. Since the 1989 first edition, she has been leading... (read more) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi by Giorgio Bonsanti Publisher Comments Seconds before the first shock of the devastating earthquake that rocked the central Italian town of Assisi on September 26, 1997, Ghigo Roli completed photographing the interior of the Upper Basilica of St. Francis. He had been working for months on... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 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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Landscape Graphics Rev Edition Plan Section & by Grant W Reid Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 207) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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