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Portland Then and Now by Linda Dodds Synopsis 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 $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka Publisher Comments Sarah Susanka contends that people are naturally drawn to intimate spaces. Large structures inspired by outdated patterns tend to result in houses that just don?t work. In The Not So Big House, she proposes clear guidelines for creating homes that serve... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander and Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein Powells.com Staff Pick Although I am not an architect, I keep this book on my bedside table at all times, so that I can pick it up and read about how the world should be, according to Christopher Alexander. The world is made of "patterns" that work organically. These patterns... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping by Harvard Design School Graduates In Collaboration With Rem Koolhaas Publisher Comments "Not only is shopping melting into everything, but everything is melting into shopping." Sze Tsung Leong Harvard Design School's Project on the City is a graduate thesis program that examines the effects of modernization on the urban condition. Each... (read more) Your price $125.00 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline, 1881 to the Present by Jim Rasenberger Publisher Comments A powerful first-hand account of the many generations and ethnic groups of men who have built America's skyscrapers. From the early days of steel construction in Chicago, through the great boom years of New York city ironwork, and up through the present,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (Metropolitan Portraits) by Carl Abbott Synopsis Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning. "A panoramic portrait."--Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning. "A panoramic portrait."--... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Architecture Form Space & Order 3RD Edition by Francis D Ching Publisher Comments This classic visual reference has helped over 400,000 readers understand the basic vocabulary of architectural design by examining how form and space are ordered in the built environment.  Using his trademark meticulous drawing, Ching shows the way... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $32.00 (Used - Softcvr W/comp Media) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Building Big by David Macaulay Publisher Comments Why this shape and not that? Why steel instead of concrete or stone? Why put it here and not over there? These are the kinds of questions that David Macaulay asks himself when he observes an architectural wonder. These questions take him back to the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership by Allan Temko Synopsis Small may be beautiful, but bigness has been even better. Within a single decade, starting at the end of the 1980s, ZGF has been transformed from a Northwest regional office of 75 people, perfectly at home in Portland, Oregon, into a 300 person... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Architecture on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   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 $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cabin: Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway by Dale Mulfinger Publisher Comments "The Cabin is our heart's retreat" write the authors, and what a wonderful place to escape to. Building on the theory that less is more, The Cabin takes this idyllic retreat from mind's eye to reality — with striking photographs and ample charm... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's by R A Scotti Publisher Comments In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peteras Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Green Architecture by James Wines Powells.com Staff Pick This sturdy little book from Taschen provides an exciting visual portrait of some of the great examples of contemporary ecological architecture, as well as the history behind the trend towards "green" design. Wines compares and contrasts these modern... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon, 1850-1950 by William J. Hawkins III and William F.Willingham 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 $29.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greene & Greene: Masterworks by Bruce Smith Synopsis In the first decades of the 20th century, Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene almost single-handedly defined the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in America as the architectural firm Greene & Greene. The only full-color survey of the firm's greatest... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia 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 $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans (Flora Levy Humanities) by S Frederick Starr Publisher Comments Southern Comfort details the magnificent architecture and planning of the Garden District of New Orleans. Through the histories of the developers, owners, architects, laborers, and craftspeople who shaped this district, the book creates a picture of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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