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The House of the Architect by: Zabalbeascoa, Anatxu
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The House of the Architect
by: Zabalbeascoa, Anatxu

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. A tour of the private domains of world-renowned architects. Previous owner initials in right upper corner of endpapers. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 384655

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Form and Fancy: Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners, 1916-1939 by: Skinner, Joan S.
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Form and Fancy: Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners, 1916-1939
by: Skinner, Joan S.

Softcover. Liverpool Univeristy Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. In 1916 Thomas Wallis founded a new practice, Wallis, Gilbert & Partner, primarily to collaborate with an American company in the design of factories to be constructed of reinforced concrete. Designing factories was not then popular among architects and many manufacturers regarded the employment of an architect a wanton extravagance. Wallis's move could be seen as a reckless gamble, but his and his partners' subsequent achievements suggest that his choice had been well considered; some of the best known inter-war industrial building - Firestone, Hoover, The Gramophone Company, Glaxo Laboratories - were their work. In Form and Fancy, Dr Skinner looks first at the biographical background of Wallis, at the history and organisation of the partnership he founded, and at the many factors that contributed to its reputation in the inter-war years. She then offers a perspective on architectural thought and activity in that period, and of the attitudes and influences on factory design. Designs by the partnership for over one hundred factories and factory buildings have been discovered and at the core of the book is a third chapter which analyses and assesses them. Dr Skinner concludes with an evaluation of the design philosophy of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, the aim of which was to contribute to the successful pursuit of business by the companies that commissioned them.

Record # 385358

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, James Stirling: New Directions in British Architecture by: Sudjic, Deyan
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Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, James Stirling: New Directions in British Architecture
by: Sudjic, Deyan

Softcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages with 170 illustrations, 34 in color. Clean copy.

Record # 385359

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles Region by: Hise, Greg, and Deverell, William F, and Olin, Laurie (Afterword by)
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Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles Region
by: Hise, Greg, and Deverell, William F, and Olin, Laurie (Afterword by)

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 314 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1930 the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region," to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and public beaches. It is a model of ambitious, intelligent, sensitive planning commissioned at a time when land was available, if only the city planners had had the fortitude and vision to act on its recommendations. "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches" has become a highly valued but difficult-to-find document. In this book, Greg Hise and William Deverell examine the reasons it was called for, analyze why it failed, and open a discussion about the future of urban public space. In addition to their introduction and a facsimile reproduction of the report, Eden by Design includes a dialogue between Hise, Deverell, and widely admired landscape architect Laurie Olin that illuminates the significance of the Olmsted-Bartholomew report and situates it in the history of American landscape planning. Clean copy.

Record # 385659

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Down to Earth: Adobe Architecture: An Old Idea a New Future by: Jean Dethier
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Down to Earth: Adobe Architecture: An Old Idea a New Future by: Jean DethierDown to Earth: Adobe Architecture: An Old Idea a New Future by: Jean Dethier

Down to Earth: Adobe Architecture: An Old Idea a New Future
by: Jean Dethier

Softcover. Facts on File, 1st pbk, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Based on an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou-with 303 illustrations, 65 in color. Clean copy.

Record # 385670

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Dan Kiley: The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect by: Kiley, Dan,/Amidon, Jane
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Dan Kiley: The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect
by: Kiley, Dan,/Amidon, Jane

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with 382 photographs and sketches, 152 in color. 9 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches. 224 pages. Dan Kiley has influenced generations of landscape designers, and his work has heightened our awareness of our surroundings through his lifelong tenet that the actions of people are integral to nature and its course. Despite his international renown, no comprehensive monograph has ever been published on Dan Kiley. Produced in close collaboration with the architect, this is the definitive book on the man and his oeuvre, from early projects to his most recent works. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 385737

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities by: Southworth, Michael/Ben-Joseph, Eran
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Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities
by: Southworth, Michael/Ben-Joseph, Eran

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean copy. The topic of streets and street design is of compelling interest today as public officials, developers, and community activists seek to reshape urban patterns to achieve more sustainable forms of growth and development. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities traces ideas about street design and layout back to the early industrial era in London suburbs and then on through their institutionalization in housing and transportation planning in the United States. It critiques the situation we are in and suggests some ways out that are less rigidly controlled, more flexible, and responsive to local conditions.

Record # 385738

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Town and Square: From the Agora to the Village Green by: Zucker, Paul
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Town and Square: From the Agora to the Village Green
by: Zucker, Paul

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st pbk, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow card wraps with b&w designs and black lettering. 287 pages with 55 b/w line drawings and 96 b/w plates. The first publication in English that gives a general survey of the development of the inner structure of the town from a dual point of view: that of the function of the square in the life of the community and that of its conception in purely aesthetic terms. Zucker shows a continuous development from Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to the creative heights of the 17th and 18th centuries, periods which he considers the culmination of this development. The concluding chapter surveys the role of the square in early American life. Clean copy.

Record # 385739

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Street Graphics and the Law by: Mandelker, Daniel R., /Ewald, William R.
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Street Graphics and the Law
by: Mandelker, Daniel R., /Ewald, William R.

Softcover. Washington DC, Planners Press, revised ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, This seminal report outlines a street-graphics system that ensures on-premise signs are expressive, appropriate, legible, and compatible with the character of the community. The system is a legally enforceable regulatory framework that makes good design possible. It offers benefits to business owners by eliminating the visual cacophony that often drowns out their messages and to drivers and pedestrians by making it easier and safer for them to find what they're looking for. Clean copy.

Record # 385740

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

An Introduction to Urban Design by: Barnett, Jonathan
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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

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Evaluative Image of the City by: Nasar, Jack L.
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The Evaluative Image of the City
by: Nasar, Jack L.

Softcover. Thousand Oaks CA, Sage Publications, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 182 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1960, Kevin Lynch wrote The Image of the City, which transformed the way design professionals and social scientists dealt with the urban form and design. The Evaluative Image of the City follows the work of Lynch and further explores the role of human evaluations of the cityscape. This book describes how to assess, plan, and design the appearance of cities to please inhabitants. It presents a series of studies on evaluative images, discusses methodologies, findings, and applications to design and planning at various stages. Urban designers and planners, architects, business people, and the general public will find this book a valuable guide for improving the image of their surroundings. Clean copy.

Record # 385744

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man Made Landscape by: Kunstler, James Howard
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man Made Landscape
by: Kunstler, James Howard

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 303 pages. Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but in large part a cause. It is the everyday environment where most Americans live and work, and it represents a gathering calamity whose effects we have hardly begun to measure. In The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular, where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and blacktop. Now that the great suburban build-out is over, Kunstler argues, we are stuck with the consequences: a national living arrangement that destroys civic life while imposing enormous social costs and economic burdens. Kunstler explains how our present zoning laws impoverish the life of our communities, and how all our efforts to make automobiles happy have resulted in making human beings miserable. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise like new.

Record # 385746

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Visualizing Density by: Julie Campoli, Alex S. MacLean
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Visualizing Density
by: Julie Campoli, Alex S. MacLean

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 152 pages illustrated in color. A richly illustrated book by landscape architect Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean helps planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand how residential density can help save energy, dollars, and the environment. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 385752

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Public Streets for Public Use by: Anne Vernez Moudon (Editor)
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Public Streets for Public Use
by: Anne Vernez Moudon (Editor)

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 351 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 385753

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character by: Arendt, Randall
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Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character
by: Arendt, Randall

Hardcover. Chicago, American Planning Association, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 441 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. Conventional planning techniques just aren't working in many rural and suburbanizing areas. Developments where people merely exist have replaced neighborhoods where people once thrived. Strip malls and checkerboard subdivisions prevail. Randall Arendt argues convincingly that this scenario is not inevitable. In Rural by Design he advocates creative, practical land-use planning techniques to preserve open space and community character. He shows how developments all across America have used these techniques successfully. This book examines a broad spectrum of nitty-gritty design topics in a lively, readable style. Topics range from sewage disposal and farmland preservation to greenway planning for interconnected open space and the design of rural subdivision streets. The book includes numerous case examples of residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects that have used these innovative design techniques. And it takes an in-depth look at the design elements of the traditional town--and how to reinvent those elements in today's communities. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 385851

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Charleston: Photographic Studies by F.S. Lincoln by: Lincoln, F.S.
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Charleston: Photographic Studies by F.S. Lincoln
by: Lincoln, F.S.

Hardcover. NY, Corinthian Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated with over 50 b&w photogravures, many full page. Foreward and captions by E. Milby Burton.

Record # 386040

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home by: Jack Larkin
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Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home
by: Jack Larkin

Hardcover. Newtown CT, The Taunton Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 266 pages. The past has left behind only scattered clues that, on their own, provide little insight into how the people of early America lived and the details of their daily lives. The photographs in this book, the deeply informed narrative that accompanies them, and the eyewitness accounts of daily life that the author weaves throughout, provide a fresh perspective on our early American ancestors and the places they called home. This book is about how their houses and their life in them, from the wealthy to the impoverished, from New York City to the small farms and plantations of the South, from coastal fishing towns to the Western frontier of Indiana and Kentucky. The stories focus on the remarkably vivid differences from one part of the country to the next, class and culture, and the realities of everyday life for American families. These stories twine around a wide selection of HABS photographs of early houses, covering the variety and evolutions of house styles -- not by labeling the style but by explaining the style in the context of everyday life. Richly illustrated with handsome black-and-white photography of old houses from the Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey (HABS) collection and supplemented with period woodcuts, engravings, drawings, paintings, artifacts, and maps, the book is printed on a 4-color press for a depth of tone. Sidebar excerpts from diaries, journals, and letters inject graphic eyewitness descriptions, adding an additional layer of insight. The book also includes sidebars called Still Standing that traces the history of specific houses, from their origins to the present and includes information on the original family, how the house has evolved over the centuries, and how it's used today.

Record # 386073

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi by: John Wilton-Ely
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The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi by: John Wilton-ElyThe Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi by: John Wilton-Ely

The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
by: John Wilton-Ely

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st pbk., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 304 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Piranesi has a powerful appeal for our time. His brilliance as a graphic artist, his transformation of the European vision of Classical antiquity, and his themes of fantasy have been the focus of considerable study in recent years. But though these aspects are important for an appreciation of Piranesi's visual significance, they have tended to obscure other factors essential for a complete understanding of his unique achievement. In this copiously illustrated study, John Wilton-Ely - one of the world's foremost authorities on Piranesi - offers a full reappraisal of the complex personality of an astonishingly versatile artist. His book covers every aspect of Piranesi's life and work, emphasizing especially his importance as a pioneer of Roman archaeology, the high quality of his technical illustrations, and his role in the great Graeco-Roman debate of the 1760s. The author brings to life the Enlightenment world of the artist's ideas - fundamentally bound up with the birth of Neo-Classicism - and the search for an appropriately modern form of expression; and he shows the practical and influential form taken by these ideas in Piranesi's architectural projects, his designs for furniture and decorative schemes and his imaginative restoration of antiquities. Clean copy.

Record # 386361

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Cabins & Castles: The History & Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina by: Swaim Douglas (edited by). Essays by Talmage Powell and John Agar
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Cabins & Castles: The History & Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina
by: Swaim Douglas (edited by). Essays by Talmage Powell and John Agar

Softcover. Asheville NC, Bright Mountain Books, 2nd Ed., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 224 pages, b&w photos. Cabins & Castles was first completed in 1981, a joint effort of the Historic Resources Commission and the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. The book became enormously popular with natives, tourists, historians, and preservationists as a primary source of knowledge about the richly historic Buncombe County. Cabins & Castles contains a historical overview, as well as the specific record of individual properties built in the area, primarily those constructed prior to 1930. Historical sketches of Buncombe County and Asheville written by John Ager and Talmage Powell are followed by editor Douglas Swaim's essay on local architectural history. Rapid development in the urban and rural areas of Buncombe County makes this record timely and valuable. Clean copy.

Record # 386370

Price: $38.00
Price: $38.00 

Turrets, Towers, and Temples: The Great Buildings of the World, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers by: Esther Singleton
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Turrets, Towers, and Temples: The Great Buildings of the World, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers
by: Esther Singleton

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration to front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Design by Alice Cordelia Morse. 317 pages with 48 b&w plates. Selections from Dickens, Hugo, Ruskin, and many others. Originally published in 1898. Hinges cracked, Small ownership sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387220

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

English Village Homes and Country Buildings by: Sydney R. Jones
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English Village Homes and Country Buildings
by: Sydney R. Jones

Hardcover. London, Batsford, 2nd Ed., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 120 pages. Color frontis., many b&w photos and sketches. Bookplate on inside front cover, small note on half-title page, otherwise clean. A wonderful study of the historical small village house.

Record # 387437

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Early Victorian Archtecture In Britain by: Hitchcock, Henry Russell
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Early Victorian Archtecture In Britain
by: Hitchcock, Henry Russell

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st pbk, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 50 pages of text, followed by hundreds of b&w illustrations. The original edition of Early Victorian Architecture in Britain was published in two volumes, one containing an extensive discussion and appreciation of early Victorian architecture by Mr Hitchcock, and the other containing a list of the illustrations the author had collected and the plates themselves. This single-volume paperback edition includes the original Preface, Acknowledgements, and first chapter of the original, as well as the illustrations. Clean, bright copy, small ownership stamp to front fly leaf.

Record # 387535

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

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

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

The Butler Variations: Seven Utopian Houses by: Kalkin, Adam
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The Butler Variations: Seven Utopian Houses
by: Kalkin, Adam

Softcover. Shelburne VT, Nice Nietzsche Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A catalog offering 7 possibilities of homes built with basic materials like shipping containers, garage doors and prefab roof systems. All drawn in line plans by Kalkin. Mild wear to wrappers.

Record # 387876

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s by: Hayward, Mary Ellen
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Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s
by: Hayward, Mary Ellen

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 307 pages with index. Having studied over 3,000 surviving alley houses in Baltimore through extensive land records and census research, Mary Ellen Hayward systematically reconstructs the lives, households, and neighborhoods that once thrived on the city's narrowest streets. In the past, these neighborhoods were sometimes referred to as "dilapidated," "blighted," or "poverty stricken." In Baltimore's Alley Houses, Hayward reveals the rich cultural and ethnic traditions that formed the African-American and immigrant Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish communities that made their homes on the city's alley streets. Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents. Clean copy.

Record # 387945

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn's Career in Art by: Rainey, Sue
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Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn's Career in Art
by: Rainey, Sue

Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 516 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This volume documents Fenn's prolific career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his adventurous sketching trips in the western United States, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the nation was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.

Record # 387950

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

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

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Homes of New York and Connecticut [Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol 5 by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Homes of New York and Connecticut [Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol 5
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. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 5 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. 254 page book with black and white photos of the finer houses in New York and Connecticut.

Record # 397360

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Colonial Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 4) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Colonial Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 4)
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 4 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 # 397361

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Grandeur of the South (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol.14) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Grandeur of the South (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol.14)
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. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 14 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as the Georgian Period edited by Professor William Rotch Ware. 223 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397362

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Styles of the Emerging Nation (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 13) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Styles of the Emerging Nation (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 13)
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. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 13 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as the Georgian Period edited by Professor William Rotch Ware. 223 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397363

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Early Architecture of the South (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 2) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Early Architecture of the South (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 2)
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 2 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. 236 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397365

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Survey of Early American Design (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 1) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Survey of Early American Design (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 1)
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 1 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. 243 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397366

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Early American Southern Homes (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol 8) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Early American Southern Homes (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol 8)
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. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 8 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. 236 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397367

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Evolution of Colonial Architecture (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 9) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Evolution of Colonial Architecture (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 9)
by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 9 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. Light soil to fore-edge of text block. Otherwise clean.

Record # 397368

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Early American Community Structures (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 10) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Early American Community Structures (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol. 10)
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 10 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 # 397370

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Blueprints for America's Past (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 11) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Blueprints for America's Past (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 11)
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 11 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. 224 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397371

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Village Architecture of Early New England (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol 7) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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Village Architecture of Early New England (Architectural Treasures of Early America Vol 7)
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 7 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. 238 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Record # 397373

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Georgian Heritage (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 15) by: Mullins, Lisa C. (editor)
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The Georgian Heritage (Architectural Treasures of Early America, Vol. 15)
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 15 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 # 397375

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Summering on the Thoroughfare: The Architecture of North Haven 1885 - 1945 by: Reed, Roger G.
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Summering on the Thoroughfare: The Architecture of North Haven 1885 - 1945
by: Reed, Roger G.

Softcover. Portand ME, Maine Citizens For Historic Preservation, 1st, 1993.00, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, oblong format, b&w photos. Scarce monograph on the historical architecture of the reclusive summer colony on the Maine coast. Prominent families such as the Cabots, Saltonstalls, the Lamonts and the Morrows transformed the small fishing village into an exclusive summer retreat and the homes erected for these "rusticators" are examined in detail. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397663

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Cutler Anderson Architects by: Sheri Olson
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Cutler Anderson Architects
by: Sheri Olson

Softcover. Gloucester MA, Rockport , 2nd pr., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 136 pages. Color illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397666

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Charles Rose, Architect by: Rose, Charles A.
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Charles Rose, Architect
by: Rose, Charles A.

Softcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, color photos. Charles Rose embraces the vast and varied panorama of the American landscape. The profile of his award-winning Paintrock Camp in Hyattville, Wyoming, follows the contours of a nearby canyon; Roses's adaptive reuse of an industrial structure in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood preserves the existing streetscape while creating a seamless flow between inside and out; and the shape of his United States Port of Entry project in Del Rio, Texas, was determined by the scorching Texan sun and features sustainable landscapes. With surprising use of volumes, materials, and geometries, agile movement of spaces, and an active language of planes and lines, Rose creates dynamic, expressive architecture that reminds us that buildings can be both sensitive to their locale and embrace the timeless principles of geometry, material, light, and shadow. Clean copy.

Record # 397667

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 


  

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