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Aztec Templo Mayor: A Visualization by: Antonio Serrato-Combe

Aztec Templo Mayor: A Visualization
by: Antonio Serrato-Combe

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Oblong folio in color pictorial jacket; 208 pages most in color. The Templo Mayor precinct at Tenochtitlan in Mexico was an important center in Aztec ceremonial life, providing the setting for displays of highly-energized rituals. This book uses the latest archaeological research and cutting-edge computer-generated three-dimensional color imagery to reconstruct the spaces where these ritual dramas were played out. Through a series of isometric drawings and sections cut through buildings, the author has created a compelling reconstruction of how the temple looked, and how it evolved from a scatter of mud and thatch huts to become one of the most impressive urban complexes in the world. Clean copy.

Record # 396516

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Spirit of New England (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 16) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Spirit of New England (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 16)
by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 16 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as the Georgian Period edited by Professor William Rotch Ware. 224 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397376

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Sketchbooks of Lawrence Halprin by: Halprin, Lawrence

Sketchbooks of Lawrence Halprin
by: Halprin, Lawrence

Hardcover. Tokyo, Process Architecture Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, large folio in dust jacket that has fading to spine and edges. First Edition In English and Japanese. Large (folio-size) compilation of the architectural drawings of prominent landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, who was associated with the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, UC Berkeley, the city of Jerusalem, Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington and many other famous sites. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398524

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Early Architecture of Georgia, Theby: Nichols, Frederick Doveton

Early Architecture of Georgia, The
by: Nichols, Frederick Doveton

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, very good in slipcase, no dust jacket issued. Decorated red-brown Cloth and Beige Cloth Covers; book is clean and tight and interior bright; pictorial red-brown endpapers. 292 pages, 270 b/w photographs including frontispiece by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Features foreword, and Index with text divided into six parts titled as: "The Land and the People," "Cities and Towns," "Domestic Architecture of Coastal Georgia". Illustrated slipcase with rubbing and edgewear, light soil, starting to split at seams.

Record # 412038

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Hector Guimard: Architect, Designer (1867-1942)by: Vigne, Georges

Hector Guimard: Architect, Designer (1867-1942)
by: Vigne, Georges

Hardcover. NY, Delano Greenidge Editions, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 396 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Guimard is the pre-eminent architect of Art Nouveau in France. He influenced French architecture and design in the first half of the 20th century. He was also the architect of a number of Paris Metro entrances. He was regarded as an architect who wielded the greatest influence on the popular imagination in Paris during the late 19th- and early 20th centuries.

Record # 462837

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Savannah Revisited - History, Architecture, Restoration (SIGNED COPY)by: Lane, Mills

Savannah Revisited - History, Architecture, Restoration (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lane, Mills

Hardcover. Savannah, Beehive Press, 3rd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions relating to the architecture and history of Savannah, Georgia. Clean, Tight copy.

Record # 603639

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Homes of American Authorsby: n/a

Homes of American Authors
by: n/a

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, 366 pages. Leather cover with raised bands and ornate decoration. Gilt all edges and marled endpapers. B&w frontispiece with tissue-guard and b&w and color illustrations with tissue guards throughout. Color illustrations on tipped-in plates. Rubbing and wear to cover edges and some light foxing throughout. Else a clean, good copy.

Record # 851595

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Galileo's Florentine Residencesby: Bonelli, Maria Luisa Righini, William R. Shea

Galileo's Florentine Residences
by: Bonelli, Maria Luisa Righini, William R. Shea

Softcover. Italy, Instituto E Museo Di Storia Della Scienza, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Foxing on edges and preliminary/back pages. Does not affect text or illustrations. Wrapper in good condition.

Record # 30987

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Ferruccio Vitale: Landscape Architect of the Country Place Eraby: Schnadelbach, R. Terry

Ferruccio Vitale: Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era
by: Schnadelbach, R. Terry

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, several color plates and architectural drawings by Vitale. Foreword by Horace Havemeyer III. Ferruccio Vitale is America's forgotten landscape architect. Though his works like Skylands and Longwood Gardens are well known, his name has been eclipsed by his contemporary, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Yet Vitale's influence on the modern direction of landscape design and his promotion of it as a profession is arguably more significant than Olmsted's. His unique designs and philosophy, which challenged the then-dominant pictorial mode of landscape architecture, influenced generations of followers, and is still felt today. Vitale (1875-1933) developed his rationale designs, based on the principles of composition from the fine arts and architecture, in both civic commissions and, most notably, at the country estates of captains of industry and finance. He introduced an idealized and abstracted type of formal design that created beautiful spaces, structured large sites, and reflected informal and relaxed plant compositions. Ferruccio Vitale tours over 40 of his masterworks, photographed by some of the best landscape photographers of the time, including Samuel Gottscho. It recounts the compelling story of a life in the early twentieth century, influenced by immigrant dreams, social clubs, and professional connections, and its culmination in some of the greatest landscapes of the 20th century.

Record # 351113

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Householdsby: Robbins, Mark

Households
by: Robbins, Mark

Hardcover. NY, Monacelli, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Driving the glossy shelter magazines -- Architectural Digest, House and Garden, and many more -- is an enduring fascination with other people's lives and houses. But the pristine photographs in these publications do not represent reality. In his "Households" series, artist and architect Mark Robbins has invented the "flip side" of interior design magazines: a compelling series of photographs of actual people in actual homes. A young family at a writers retreat, a gay couple in a Long Island beach house, a husband and wife in a family compound, a single parent in a city apartment: Robbins has photographed residents and environments that comment on contemporary life and relationships. Robbins's design and photography work, which bridges the fields of art and architecture, has long focused on the complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment. The thoughtfully arranged compositions reinforce, undermine, and even confuse stereotypes; the collection as a whole comments on present-day customs and ways of life in all their complexity.

Record # 351374

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California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architectureby: Heimann, Jim

California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture
by: Heimann, Jim

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 6th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Softcover. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean tight copy.

Record # 352569

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworksby: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text/Editor), David Larkin (Editor)

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks
by: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text/Editor), David Larkin (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout including interiors and exteriors of projects, as well as blue prints. Red endpapers. Cover boards bound in charcoal cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Top edge has some light soil. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. This extraordinary book presents thirty-eight of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, IL, in the 1890's to his daring creations of the 1940's and 1950's.

Record # 367554

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The New Malaysian Houseby: Robert Powell; Albert Lim KS Photographer

The New Malaysian House
by: Robert Powell; Albert Lim KS Photographer

Hardcover. Periplus Editions, 1st, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 224 pages illustrated in color. The New Malaysian House is a collection of 25 contemporary houses that demonstrate a remarkable flowering of Malaysian design talent that has been germinating since the mid- 1980s. The houses range from luxury detached bungalows set in extensive tropical gardens to weekend retreats in the forest, from the gated communities springing up throughout Malaysia to extended family homes. All are distinguished by a singular quality of innovative design as the architects sought to explore new approaches for designing with the climate and in the cultural context of Malaysia. Clean copy.

Record # 378667

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Workshop/APD Homes: Architecture, Interiors, and the Spaces Betweenby: Andrew Kotchen/ Matt Berman /Marc Kristal

Workshop/APD Homes: Architecture, Interiors, and the Spaces Between
by: Andrew Kotchen/ Matt Berman /Marc Kristal

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli], 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages, color illustrations throughout. The first book from award-winning interior design and architecture firm Workshop/APD with projects ranging from sleek Manhattan apartments to Shingle Style getaways. Since its founding by Andrew Kotchen and Matt Berman, Workshop/APD has perfected a unique amalgam of traditional warmth and contemporary simplicity. All of their projects, whether a modern yet cozy Manhattan pied-a-terre or a surprisingly streamlined Shingle Style compound in Nantucket, strike an exquisite balance between architectural brilliance and decorative expressiveness. The architecture and interior design Workshop/APD represent a cleanly tailored and brightly hued modernity, with all the embellishments of refined and luxurious decoration. In every project, high tech and hand finishing are applied to exquisite details and fine materials and finishes, resulting in one-of-a-kind designs that are meticulously crafted, inviting, and intentional. Clean. bright copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 383571

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An Introduction to Urban Design by: Barnett, Jonathan

An Introduction to Urban Design
by: Barnett, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 260 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Covers all aspects of zoning, mapping, urban renewal, planned communities, land-use strategies, standards for street furniture, lighting, signs, community participation, preservation movement, transportation. Clean copy.

Record # 385741

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Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica by: Uriarte, Maria Teresa

Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica
by: Uriarte, Maria Teresa

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages illustrated in color. This authoritative yet accessible study begins with an overview of the aesthetics, meanings, functions, and techniques of Mesoamerican architecture, and then proceeds to survey the historical development of the builder's art in each of the region's cultural areas. As readers travel from the Maya heartland of Guatemala and the Yucatan to the Aztec stronghold of the Valley of Mexico, and all the way to the northern hinterlands of Mesoamerica, they will gain an appreciation of both the unity and the diversity of the region's architecture. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387724

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Early Architecture of Rhode Island (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 6) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Early Architecture of Rhode Island (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 6)
by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 6 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 239 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397369

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Dutch Barns of New York: An Introduction by: Schaefer, Vincent J.

Dutch Barns of New York: An Introduction
by: Schaefer, Vincent J.

Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages with b&w photos and diagrams. Common features of these barns include a core structure composed of a steep gabled roof, supported by purlin plates and anchor beam posts, the floor and stone piers below. Another distinctive feature of the Dutch barn is that the ends of the cross beams protrude through the columns. These protrusions are often rounded to form tongues. This feature is not found in any other style of barn design. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding.

Record # 397680

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Irving J. Gill: Architect 1870-1936by: Rand McNally, Marvin

Irving J. Gill: Architect 1870-1936
by: Rand McNally, Marvin

Hardcover. Layton UT, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Like new condition in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 402097

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Rooftop Architecture: The Art of Going Through the Roofby: Busch, Akiko

Rooftop Architecture: The Art of Going Through the Roof
by: Busch, Akiko

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 205 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. An examination of rooftop designs for living spaces, conservatories, studios, conference rooms, tea houses, and pool rooms includes floor plans and discusses building and zoning codes

Record # 456318

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Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhausby: Isaacs, Reginald

Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus
by: Isaacs, Reginald

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Like-new.

Record # 512049

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Le Cupole Del Brunelleschi: Capire per conservare by: Rossi, Paolo Alberto

Le Cupole Del Brunelleschi: Capire per conservare
by: Rossi, Paolo Alberto

Hardcover. Bologna, Calderini, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 pages. ITALIAN TEXT. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing to pages, Edge wear on cover boards, otherwise clean tight copy. Dust jacket small tears on rear.

Record # 750321

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Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialismby: Reed (Ed.), Peter

Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism
by: Reed (Ed.), Peter

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Art New York, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30871

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Renzo Piano: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, The Architectureby: Piano, Renzo

Renzo Piano: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, The Architecture
by: Piano, Renzo

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The prominent Genovese architect Renzo Piano--recipient of the 1998 Pritzker Award and architect of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Morgan Library renovations, as well as the new New York Times building--has just completed a new and unusual museum building--the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. The center, says Piano, is dedicated to the "poet of silence," and thus it was fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the "Museum Street" serving as a path within the complex. The three structures make up a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture whose roofs are supported by innovative steel construction. Includes photographs, design sketches, plans and models--a living image of a magnificent building.

Record # 350264

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Stanley Tigerman - Buildings and Projects 1966-1989by: Underhill, Sarah Mollman

Stanley Tigerman - Buildings and Projects 1966-1989
by: Underhill, Sarah Mollman

Softcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, softcover edition. Edited by Sarah Mollman Underhill. Introductory Essay by Stanley Tigerman. Afterword by John Hejduk. Illustrated with color and black-and-white drawings, photographs and plans.

Record # 351326

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Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial: Eisenman Architects 1988-1998by: Eisenman, Peter

Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial: Eisenman Architects 1988-1998
by: Eisenman, Peter

Hardcover. New York , Monacelli, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, illustrated with color plates, additional drawings and plans. Very good hardcover in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 351770

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Conversations with Architects: Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Morris Lapidus, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown! by:

Conversations with Architects: Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Morris Lapidus, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown!
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Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, b&w illustrations. Foreword by Vincent Scully. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 362541

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Adolf Loos, Theory and Works by: Benedetto Gravagnuolo

Adolf Loos, Theory and Works
by: Benedetto Gravagnuolo

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli International, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 228 pages, illustrations in color and b/w. Photography by Roberto Schezen. This was the first book to present all of Loos's 180 works and an essay on this architect's relation to the society of his time. Embossed stamp to prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 377829

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Architecture in Britain the Middle Ages by: Webb, Geoffrey

Architecture in Britain the Middle Ages
by: Webb, Geoffrey

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Penguin Books, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket housed in a pictorial cardboard slipcase. 234 pages, 192 b/w plates, glossary, bibliography. Describes the architecture of the period that stretches from the Early Renaissance to the post-Waterloo Greek and Gothic Revivals. Among the great names of those centuries were Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, and John Nash. During the same period were built Hampton Court, Hatfield, the new St Paul's, the City Churches, the graceful London Squares, and the crescents and terraces of Bath. In addition to the main text there are two long appendices, one on Scottish architecture and the other on the architecture c f the Thirteen Colonies. Numerous plans, the majority of which have been especially drawn for this book, and over three hundred half-tone illustrations form an integral part of the author's account. Clean copy.

Record # 382193

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Built Landscapes: Gardens in the Northeast by: Van Valkenburgh, Michael (Curator)

Built Landscapes: Gardens in the Northeast
by: Van Valkenburgh, Michael (Curator)

Softcover. Brattleboro VT, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 59 pages with bibliography. B&w photos, 5 landscape planns laid in rear pocket. Traveling exhibition featuring the work of Beatrix Farrand; Fletcher Steele; James Rose; A. E. Bye; and Dan Kiley.

Record # 385736

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Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens by: Evelyn, John, Editor: Ingram, John E.

Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens
by: Evelyn, John, Editor: Ingram, John E.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardecover in a bright dust jacket, 492 pages. In a letter to Sir Thomas Browne about his proposed magnum opus on gardens, John Evelyn stated his purpose: "to refine upon some particulars, especially concerning the ornaments of Gardens, which I shal endeavor so to handle that persons of all conditions and faculties, which delight in Gardens, may therein encounter something for their owne advantage." In his Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens, Evelyn indeed produced a rich document, an assemblage of the horticultural knowledge and wisdom of the seventeenth century. An intriguing intellectual whom many have called a virtuoso, Evelyn was a garden designer, a noted author and translator of garden books, and a founding member of the Royal Society in 1660, where experimental science was at the heart of intellectual debate. Interlacing in his work practical, literary, and philosophical approaches to landscape architecture, Evelyn created the first large-scale encyclopedic work on the science and art of gardening. Evelyn never saw his great work published. Until now, the entire Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens has never appeared in print. In an impressive transcription, John E. Ingram makes the document--of which only a single folio volume remains--accessible to a wide range of scholars. Complete with Evelyn's extensive marginalia, interlineations, and tipped-in addenda, the manuscript is expertly organized by Ingram to preserve the meaningful complexity of Evelyn's original. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386460

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New England by the Sea (Architectural Treasures of Early America-Vol. 3) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

New England by the Sea (Architectural Treasures of Early America-Vol. 3)
by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 3 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 248 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397364

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East Coast Victorians: Castles & Cottages by: Naversen. Kenneth

East Coast Victorians: Castles & Cottages
by: Naversen. Kenneth

Softcover. Wilsonville OR, Beautiful America Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages with bibliography; index to architects, and index to houses. With more than 180 beautifully reproduced color photographs and additional drawings this is a comprehensive survey the East Coast mansions. Clean copy.

Record # 397668

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Survival Through Designby: Richard Neutra

Survival Through Design
by: Richard Neutra

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 384 pages. Title page and copyright pages state 1954, but no price on flap. Neutra was a city planner and 20th century modern architect. 'He advocates design 'for life' and health, especially mental health. Design must be adapted to actual living processes. It can harm or help them...' Light tape repair to reverse of dj, clean copy.

Record # 399470

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Lighthouses of Trinity House, Theby: Wilson, Richard

Lighthouses of Trinity House, The
by: Wilson, Richard

Hardcover. London, A&C Black Publishers, Ltd., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 455120

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History of the English House from Primitive Times to the Victorian Period, Aby: Lloyd, Nathaniel

History of the English House from Primitive Times to the Victorian Period, A
by: Lloyd, Nathaniel

Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 487 pages. Oversized book. Black & white photography of English architecture. Light spinewear. Dust jacket with soiling and chipping. Small chunk missing from top of spine.

Record # 500926

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Tadao Ando - Light and Waterby: Frampton, Kenneth/Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando - Light and Water
by: Frampton, Kenneth/Tadao Ando

Hardcover. New York, Monacelli Press, Inc., 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Dust jacket with fading along spine and edges. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613340

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Architecture: From Prehistory to Post-Modernismby: Trachtenberg, Marvin

Architecture: From Prehistory to Post-Modernism
by: Trachtenberg, Marvin

Hardcover. New York, H.N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 606 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 2230141

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The Japanese House: A Tradition for Contemporary Archiptectureby: Engel, Heinrich

The Japanese House: A Tradition for Contemporary Archiptecture
by: Engel, Heinrich

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1st Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 495 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name and info on front flyleaf. Gray, decorated cover boards with blind stamped design on front cover board. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age. Binding good. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has some damage to front flap and agewear. Abundantly illustrated with his own photographs and many of his own drawings, Mr. Engel asserts his creative imagination as a designer, his analytical mind as a scholar, and his intuitive insight as a teacher and a writer. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99202

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America Goes to the Movies: 100  Years of Motion Picture Exhibitionby: Stones, Barbara

America Goes to the Movies: 100 Years of Motion Picture Exhibition
by: Stones, Barbara

Hardcover. North Hollywood CA, National Association of Theatre Owners, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Lavish and marvelous pictorial on movie theatres and how movies were presented including the publicity and all the hoopla that surrounded the movie going experience from the first nickelodeons to the majestic movie palaces and all the wonderful small neighborhood theatres. Loaded with 100's of b&w photos publicity material and more with many color photos.

Record # 351226

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Domus, Vol. 8, 1975-1979by: Casati, Cesare Maria

Domus, Vol. 8, 1975-1979
by: Casati, Cesare Maria

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: N, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 792 pages. This volume covers the second half of the 1970s, an era marked by the oil crisis and the related global economic crisis. For the first time, architecture and design dealt with alternative resources, ecological building methods, and recyclable materials. Nevertheless synthetics remained present in many fields, especially in interior design. Examples of projects featured are the postmodern and lightflooded buildings by Richard Meier, the modernistic buildings by Foster Associates, the Centre Georges Pompidou by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and the buildings of the Japanese architects Arata Isozaki and Kisho Kurakawa. The industrial design of modern transport systems, office machines, and electrical appliances is also highlighted.

Record # 351470

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Frank Gehry: The Housesby: Mildred Friedman and Sylvia Lavin

Frank Gehry: The Houses
by: Mildred Friedman and Sylvia Lavin

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. One of the great architects of our time, Frank Gehry has revolutionized the use of materials in design and redefined how architects use computers as a design tool to advance form-making as we know it. He has achieved worldwide fame for such large-scale public projects as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, but it was in private houses that Gehry first explored and interrogated the principles of modern architecture. In these houses--most notably his own, in Santa Monica, California--Gehry distorted, expanded, and collapsed the modernist box, exploring everyday materials (corrugated metal, unfinished plywood, and chain link), experimenting with color, and challenging accepted notions about geometry and structure. In houses such as the Schnabel House in Brentwood, California, and the Winton Guest House in Wayzata, Minnesota, he experimented with collage and assemblage. More recently, Gehry's work has taken on sculptural forms, aided by new structural and geometric potentials of digital design, as in the near-legendary Lewis House in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Color photographs, sketches, and plans create an illuminating visual record of some of the most groundbreaking, seminal projects of Gehry's oeuvre. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architectureby: Heimann, Jim & Rip Georges (David Gerhard intro)

California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture
by: Heimann, Jim & Rip Georges (David Gerhard intro)

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 142 pages, 8"x8' . This book documents 100 'decorated sheds' that were built in the 1920s-'40s, including giant cream-cans, flower-potslemons, pumpkins, cats, dogs, owls, Mother Hubbard's boots, etc. Mostly b&w photos.

Record # 374198

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The Cottage Homes of Englandby: Dick, Stewart, Illustrator: Allingham, Helen

The Cottage Homes of England
by: Dick, Stewart, Illustrator: Allingham, Helen

Hardcover. NY, British Heritage Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages, 64 color plates by Helen Allingham. A nice reprint of a book first published in 1909 in the UK. Clean copy.

Record # 380726

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Sinan:Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Ageby: Freely, John; Burelli, Augusto Romano

Sinan:Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age
by: Freely, John; Burelli, Augusto Romano

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages, Color photos by Ara Guller. Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magnificence. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art. Under Sleyman the Magnificent and his succcessor Selmi II, Sinan designed hundreds of buildings: mosques, palaces, tombs, mausolea, hospitals, schools, caravanserai, bridges, aqueducts and baths, many of them presented and analysed in this book. In his greatest works, he adapted Byzantine and Islamic styles to produce something quite new: a centralized organization of absolute space unhindered by pillars or columns and covered by a soaring dome. An architect of genius in a dynamic new empire expanding into both Asia and Europe, he was a true man of the Renaissance. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 384501

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Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930by: Bender, Thomas, Schorske, Carle E. (Ed.)

Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930
by: Bender, Thomas, Schorske, Carle E. (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Russell Sage Foundation, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. Little over a century ago, New York and Budapest were both flourishing cities engaging in spectacular modernization. By 1930, New York had emerged as an innovating cosmopolitan metropolis, while Budapest languished under the conditions that would foster fascism. Budapest and New York explores the increasingly divergent trajectories of these once-similar cities through the perspectives of both Hungarian and American experts in the fields of political, cultural, social and art history. Their original essays illuminate key aspects of urban life that most reveal the turn-of-the-century evolution of New York and Budapest: democratic participation, use of public space, neighborhood ethnicity, and culture high and low. What comes across most strikingly in these essays is New York's cultivation of social and political pluralism, a trend not found in Budapest. Nationalist ideology exerted tremendous pressure on Budapest's ethnic groups to assimilate to a single Hungarian language and culture. In contrast, New York's ethnic diversity was transmitted through a mass culture that celebrated ethnicity while muting distinct ethnic traditions, making them accessible to a national audience. Mild fade to spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Record # 385935

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The Face of Home: A New Way to Look at the Outside of Your House by: Eck, Jeremiah

The Face of Home: A New Way to Look at the Outside of Your House
by: Eck, Jeremiah

Hardcover. Newtown CT, Taunton , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages in color. There are hundreds of books on the market about designing the interior of a home, but none for homeowners that focuses on the design of a home's exterior. And yet the exterior of the house is what we all see and remember- it's the "face" of home we fall in love with, whether we are looking for a new home or just taking in the sights during a Sunday afternoon drive. All of us can relate to a house's exterior, but few understand how they're put together, or how the outside and inside should work in harmony. When people describe the exterior of a house, they usually give a label or a style- Cape, Colonial, Ranch. But, in truth, what they are referring to are not only its exterior physical characteristic- the particular blend of roof-lines, siding, trim, windows, doors and porches, but also its emotional characteristics- inviting, austere, friendly. The author examines these physical and emotional characteristics, explores the concepts and applications of exterior design and how they can be successfully used to enhance the experience of home and provides a fresh, new language for describing, understanding, and shaping the face of home. Clean copy.

Record # 397343

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Miller/Hull: Architects Of The Pacific Northwest by: Olson, Sheri

Miller/Hull: Architects Of The Pacific Northwest
by: Olson, Sheri

Softcover. Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages, color illustrations. David Miller and Robert Hull created the Pacific Northwest style which is energy-conscious, structural expressive and uses local materials. This book has 29 projects. Miller/Hull's energy-conscious designs combine with a love of local materials and structural expressiveness to define the essence of the Pacific Northwest style. Here, where climate plays such a critical role, each Miller/Hull building responds with simple but inventive forms, straightforward plans, sensible siting, and careful detailing. Miller/Hull is the only comprehensive monograph of the architects' practice, which spans civic buildings, office and retail structures, educational and institutional projects, and their award-winning houses. Clean copy.

Record # 397662

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Historic Architecture of Addison County, The : Including a Listing of the Vermont State Register of Historic Placesby: Johnson, Curtis B.

Historic Architecture of Addison County, The : Including a Listing of the Vermont State Register of Historic Places
by: Johnson, Curtis B.

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, chipping to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 399132

Price: $70.00 
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Tuscan Villasby: Acton/Alexander Zielcke, Harold

Tuscan Villas
by: Acton/Alexander Zielcke, Harold

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, 34 color and 126 b&w gravure photographs by Alexander Zielcke. Dust jacket with light wear.

Record # 412313

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