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Paris sens dessus-dessous (Marville photographies 1852-1870)by: Mellot, Philippe

Paris sens dessus-dessous (Marville photographies 1852-1870)
by: Mellot, Philippe

Hardcover. Paris, Editions de Lodi, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy boards in a matching bright dust jacket. Large format, 484 pages, FRENCH TEXT. A collection of over 500 historical photos of old Paris printed in sepia tone. Around 1832 Parisian-born Charles-Francois Bossu (1813-1879) shed his unfortunate last name (bossu means hunchback in French) and adopted the pseudonym Marville. After achieving moderate success as an illustrator of books and magazines, Marville shifted course in 1850 and took up photography, a medium that had been introduced 11 years earlier. His poetic urban views, detailed architectural studies, and picturesque landscapes quickly garnered praise.By the end of the 1850s, Marville had established a reputation as an accomplished and versatile photographer. From 1862, as official photographer for the city of Paris, he documented aspects of the radical modernization program that had been launched by Emperor Napoleon III and his chief urban planner, Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann. In this capacity, Marville photographed the city's oldest quarters, and especially the narrow, winding streets slated for demolition. Even as he recorded the disappearance of Old Paris, Marville turned his camera on the new city that had begun to emerge. Many of his photographs celebrate its glamour and comforts, while other views of the city's desolate outskirts attest to the unsettling social and physical changes wrought by rapid modernization. Taken as a whole, Marville's photographs of Paris stand as one of the earliest and most powerful explorations of urban transformation on a grand scale. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381537

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Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 12by: Pamela Simpson (editors) Jennings, Jan (Author)

Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 12
by: Pamela Simpson (editors) Jennings, Jan (Author)

Softcover. Washington and Lee University, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. The 2005 issue, Volume 12, of Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum contains the articles: "Selling Domestic Space: The Boarding House in the Southern Mountains" by Michael Ann Williams; "La Casa Alamense: The Mexican Hacienda as Urban Dwelling" by John Messina; "Unraveling the Benjamin Deyerle Legend: An Analysis of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Brickwork in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia" by Michael J. Pulice; "Orson S. Fowler and a Home for All: The Octagon House in the Midwest" by Rebecca Lawin McCarley; and "Roadside Shrines and Granite Sketches: Diversifying the Vernacular Landscape of Memory" by David Charles Sloane.

Record # 374033

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Photography and Architecture 1839-1939by: Pare, Richard

Photography and Architecture 1839-1939
by: Pare, Richard

Hardcover. Montreal, Canada, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Tan colored fabric covered. Clean copy, Dust jacket shows some light age wear. From the front flap: "...presents works that show aspects of the history of architecture seen through photography and the history of photography through architecture."

Record # 30414

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Pillars of the Almighty: Photographs by F-stop Fitzgerald, A Celebration of Cathedralsby: Follet, Ken, F-Stop Fitzgerald (Photography)

Pillars of the Almighty: Photographs by F-stop Fitzgerald, A Celebration of Cathedrals
by: Follet, Ken, F-Stop Fitzgerald (Photography)

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a little bit of chipping at top of spine, patched with tape. Otherwise great. Clean and unmarked inside. Gilt endpapers.

Record # 5560074

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Plan for the Relief of Broadway Presented to the Common Council October 4th 1852 by John T. Dodge Street Commissioner (PRINT)by: Hayward, G.

Plan for the Relief of Broadway Presented to the Common Council October 4th 1852 by John T. Dodge Street Commissioner (PRINT)
by: Hayward, G.

Hardcover. New York, D.T. Valentine, N/A, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w lithographic print of New York street scene for a proposed pedestrian overpass on Broadway, allowing horse-drawn vehicles to pass underneath. Image size 9 1/2" X 6 1/2", with matte 10 X 12". Two vertical creases where it was once folded. Matte has light soiling.

Record # 412168

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Plan of St. Gall, The: In Brief by: Price, Lorna

Plan of St. Gall, The: In Brief
by: Price, Lorna

Softcover. Los Angeles, University of California Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large softcover, 100 pages; many illustrations. Clean and tight; fairly unblemished. Stiff card wraps with wraparound jacket. Following the publication of the 3-volume Plan of St. Gall an exhibition was mounted which used selected text, drawings, models, etc. that were used to produce the large work This shorter volume grew out of that exhibition.

Record # 410565

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Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Areaby: Gleason, David King

Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area
by: Gleason, David King

Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large oblong book. Contains 134 printed pages of text with color photographs throughout. From the Greek Revival grandeur of Belle Helene, to the Moorish fantasy of Longwood, to the simplicity of Rosella, the plantation homes of Louisiana and the Natchez was powerfully recall the brief flowering of the unique civilization of the Old South. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 374375

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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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Quaint Corners in Philadelphia by: N.A.

Quaint Corners in Philadelphia
by: N.A.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , John Wanamaker, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 147 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Folded Map laid In. Covers with light edgewear and chipping. Top edge gilt.

Record # 202081

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Racecourse Architectureby: Roberts, Paul

Racecourse Architecture
by: Roberts, Paul

hardcover. London, Turnberry Consulting , reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive glossary. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 469604

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Rambles in Old Londonby: Gordon, George Byron

Rambles in Old London
by: Gordon, George Byron

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, George W. Jacobs & Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 334 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate, stamp, and pencil markings on front endpapers. Some pages untrimmed. Blue leather cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover boards with two color decoration. Boards are excellent. Dust jacket has agewear, but present. binding very good. Pages and edges have some tanning. Top edge dyed. Dr. Gordon brings an artist's eye as well as the knowledge of a historian to the beautiful city of London and her historic landmarks.

Record # 99185

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Robert Mills: America's First Architectby: Bryan, John M.

Robert Mills: America's First Architect
by: Bryan, John M.

New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 330 pages, color, b&w illustrations. Like-new condition. The first architect trained in America, Robert Mills is best known as the designer of many iconic buildings in our nation's capital: the Washington Monument, the Department of Treasury headquarters, the Patent Office Building (now National Portrait Gallery) , and the Post Office Headquarters.Beautifully illustrated with never-before-published watercolors and renderings and new color photography commissioned for the book.

Record # 512045

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Russia's Art Nouveauby: Borisova, Elena and Grigory Sternin

Russia's Art Nouveau
by: Borisova, Elena and Grigory Sternin

Hardcover. Moscow, Sovietsky Khudozhnik, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Russian text only. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & whiite. A survey of Russia's brief Art Nouveau movement in architecture. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. In a plain cardboard slipcase.

Record # 405172

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Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom: Victorian Architectural Imagery in California, 1878-1908by: Gebhard, David/ Von Breton, Harriette/ Winter, Robert W.

Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom: Victorian Architectural Imagery in California, 1878-1908
by: Gebhard, David/ Von Breton, Harriette/ Winter, Robert W.

Softcover. Santa Barbara CA, UCSB Art Museum, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 105 pages illustrated with b&w photos and architectural drawings. Clean, crisp copy of this exhibition catalog.

Record # 398665

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Saratoga Springs: An architectural history, 1790-1990 by: Kettlewell, James K

Saratoga Springs: An architectural history, 1790-1990
by: Kettlewell, James K

Softcover. Saratoga Springs NY, Lyrical Ballad Book Store, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages. Conceiving of the City of Saratoga Springs as a museum in which the exteriors of buildings are the works of art, many key examples of architecture are carefully placed within the context of local and national history and of architectural style. Illustrated with many black and white photos. Clean copy

Record # 378127

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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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Sevilla Cathedral by: Delgado. Francisco Gil (Editor)

Sevilla Cathedral
by: Delgado. Francisco Gil (Editor)

Softcover. Spain, Editorial Escudo de Oro. S.A., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Softcover. Mild soiling throughout. An otherwise unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 353569

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Silent Screens the Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater by: Putnam, Michael

Silent Screens the Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater
by: Putnam, Michael

Hardcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Starkly beautiful photos of abandoned and converted movie theaters with new essays by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, and Chester H. Liebs. The single-screen movie theaters that punctuated small-town America's main streets and city neighborhoods since the 1920s are all but gone. The well-dressed throng of moviegoers has vanished; the facades are boarded. In Silent Screens, photographer Michael Putnam captures these once prominent cinemas in decline and transformation. His photographs of abandoned movie houses and forlorn marquees are an elegy to this disappearing cultural icon.

Record # 374318

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Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lecturesby: Watkin, David (Editor)

Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures
by: Watkin, David (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages with bibliography and index. A revised and abridged version of Watkins earlier work on Soane (1753-1837), concentrating on the twelve lectures the eminent architect gave to the Royal Academy between 1810 and 1820, dealing with the huge scope of the lessons to be gained from world architecture.

Record # 351719

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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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Stones of Venice, The - 3 Volumesby: Ruskin, John

Stones of Venice, The - 3 Volumes
by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co., Second Edition, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcover volumes with blue leather covers featuring marbled endpapers, raised bands along brown spines with red title plates, gilt decoration. Second Edition. Black & white, and some color illustrations in all 3 volumes by John Ruskin. Volume 1 - "The Foundations". 400 pages. Top edge gilt. Light, faint pencil marginalia to a few pages. Minor abrasion to covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - "The Sea Stories". 394 pages. Top edge gilt. Faint foxing to some pages. a few moderate abrasions to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - "The Fall". 362 pages. Top edge gilt. Light pencil marginalia scattered throughout. Faint foxing to some pages. Minor abrasions to covers. Clean, tight copy. A nice set.

Record # 612185

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Studies in Italian Renaissance Architectureby: Lotz, Wolfgang

Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture
by: Lotz, Wolfgang

Hardcover. Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout.Light foxing to edges, pen markings on a couple pages. Dust jacket with shelf wear, small tears to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 750350

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

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

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Sylvanus Marston: Master Architect in Pasadena's Golden Ageby: Tuttle, Kathleen

Sylvanus Marston: Master Architect in Pasadena's Golden Age
by: Tuttle, Kathleen

Hardcover. Santa Monica, CA, Hennessey & Ingalls, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Marston was instrumental in establishing Pasadena as a winter resort and then as a thriving community. He and his firm designed 1000 projects, many of which still survive, including cottages and additions to resort hotels, notable commercial and civic buildings such as the Pacific Asia Museum, and the earliest bungalow court. His residential designs span the range of styles from the Arts and Crafts through English Tudor and Monterey Colonial to, most importantly, Mediterranean Revival. This is an important addition to the literature of California's Golden Age of architecture.

Record # 353339

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Tadao Ando: Complete Worksby: Dal Co, Francesco

Tadao Ando: Complete Works
by: Dal Co, Francesco

Softcover. London, England, Phaidon Press, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages. Softcover, French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, has a few scratches on spine (see image), otherwise great. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. In beautiful condition. A comprehensive monograph of Ando's work, this book examines over one hundred buildings and projects designed between 1969-94.

Record # 32409

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The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side by: Greider, Katherine

The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side
by: Greider, Katherine

Hardcover. NY, Public Affairs, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 329 pages. When Katharine Greider was told to leave her house or risk it falling down on top of her and her family, it spurred an investigation that began with contractors' diagnoses and lawsuits, then veered into archaeology and urban history, before settling into the saltwater grasses of the marsh that fatefully once sat beneath the site of Number 239 East 7th Street. During the journey, Greider examines how people balance the need for permanence with the urge to migrate, and how the home is the resting place for ancestral ghosts. The land on which Number 239 was built has a history as long as America's own. It provisioned the earliest European settlers who needed fodder for their cattle; it became a spoil of war handed from the king's servant to the revolutionary victor; it was at the heart of nineteenth-century Kleinedeutschland and of the revolutionary Jewish Lower East Side. America's immigrant waves have all passed through 7th Street. In one small house is written the history of a young country and the much longer story of humankind and the places they came to call home.

Record # 374315

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The Architecture Pop Up Bookby: Radevsky, Anton

The Architecture Pop Up Book
by: Radevsky, Anton

Hardcover. New York, Universe Publishing, 2nd printing, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover. Six pages of pop-ups in excellent condition, each page has several smaller pop-ups laid in. Bright cover boards & bright illustrations throughout by illustrator, Anton Radevsky. A magnificent journey through the history of architecture. Featuring amazing three-dimensional replications of famous buildings from ancient to modern times, The Architecture Pop-Up Book showcases artwork, photographs, pop-ups, and detailed text of the ancient Egyptian pyramids; the great constructions of Greece and Rome, such as the Parthenon and the Colosseum; majestic Asian wonders, including the Taj Mahal; Gothic and Neoclassical masterpieces, such as Notre Dame and the Florence Duomo; and the work of such important modern architects as Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry. From a brilliantly elaborate Gothic cathedral nave to a telescoping Chrysler Building skyscraper, the talent and imagination of architects and builders from all eras and from all over the world are displayed and compared here.Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750187

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The Artist & the Country House: A History of Country House & Garden View Painting 1540-1870by: John Harris

The Artist & the Country House: A History of Country House & Garden View Painting 1540-1870
by: John Harris

Hardcover. NY/London, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Revised Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. 26 illustrations in color, and 420 in black and white. Originally published in 1979. John Harris was one of England's leading Architectural Historians at the time this book was written. He was curator of the Drawing Collection for RIBA. (Royal Institute of British Architects). Each section introduces a period such as: the Age of Estate Cartographers and the Garden Converstations, The Country House and Sporting Art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and Others, Caneletto and the Architectural Topographers, Gainsborough and the Picturesque, The Art of Turner and Constable. Harris comments on the artists , their style and pictures.

Record # 363402

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The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modernby: Wilbert Hasbrouck

The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modern
by: Wilbert Hasbrouck

Hardcover. NY, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 640 pages, pofusely illustrated. In the late nineteenth century, Chicago -- the birthplace of modern architecture in the United States -- was a magnet for aspiring architects. The city was forced to rebuild after the destruction wrought by the Great Fire of 1871 and also to expand to accommodate a surge in the population. The seemingly endless demand for taller and more sophisticated buildings offered young draftsmen an unprecedented opportunity to influence the design of the American skyscraper. The Chicago Architecture Club: Prelude to the Modern documents the history of these draftsmen, the organization they founded, and its role in shaping architectural education and modern architectural practice.

Record # 361143

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The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modernby: Wilbert Hasbrouck

The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modern
by: Wilbert Hasbrouck

Hardcover. NY, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 640 pages, pofusely illustrated. In the late nineteenth century, Chicago -- the birthplace of modern architecture in the United States -- was a magnet for aspiring architects. The city was forced to rebuild after the destruction wrought by the Great Fire of 1871 and also to expand to accommodate a surge in the population. The seemingly endless demand for taller and more sophisticated buildings offered young draftsmen an unprecedented opportunity to influence the design of the American skyscraper. The Chicago Architecture Club: Prelude to the Modern documents the history of these draftsmen, the organization they founded, and its role in shaping architectural education and modern architectural practice.

Record # 362402

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The Colonial Architecture of Mexicoby: James Early

The Colonial Architecture of Mexico
by: James Early

Softcover. Dallas TX, Southern Methodist University, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 221 pages, 202 b&w plates, 20 in color. Historical and cultural history of religious, popular and folk architecture of colonial New Spain. Clean copy.

Record # 398010

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The Comfort of the Past: Building Styles and Patronage in Oxford and Beyond 1815-2015by: Steven Parissien

The Comfort of the Past: Building Styles and Patronage in Oxford and Beyond 1815-2015
by: Steven Parissien

Hardcover. London, Paul Holberton Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. Color and b&w plates throughout. This groundbreaking architectural history examines what people actually wanted in their institutional and private patronage over the last two centuries as opposed to what architects and theorists thought they should want - as seen through the prism of Oxford's principal building contractor and craft practitioner, Symm & Company. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 384483

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The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome by: Minor, Heather Hyde

The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
by: Minor, Heather Hyde

Hardcover. University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Beginning in the 1730s, Heather Minor tells us, Rome "began to resemble one huge construction site," with a series of ambitious and expensive new building campaigns that transformed the face and substance of the city. From renovations of the Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni in Laterano and the restoration of the Arch of Constantine to the creation of the Capitoline Museum and the establishment of the papacy's Calcografia, the push for reform not only renewed papal and Church identity but also revived Italian culture as a whole. Based on extensive archival research and full of fascinating stories about the often stormy theological and intellectual debates central to the attempts at reform, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome brings to life the personalities of architects, theologians, and intellectuals and links the extensive architectural programs with powerful shifts in the intellectual climate of the time. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386036

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The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Buildingby: Andrew Alpern/Christopher Gray/Kenneth Grant (Photos)

The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building
by: Andrew Alpern/Christopher Gray/Kenneth Grant (Photos)

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word. The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how the Dakota came to be, how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax the city's wealthy from their mansions downtown for ultra-modern living on what was then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans of the entire building, published here for the first time, show how Clark created apartments glamorous enough that they made living under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as it already was in Europe's grand capitals, forever revolutionizing apartment life in New York City.

Record # 374022

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The EARLE THEATRE, Philadelphia, Penna., Hoffman & Henon, Architects, Opened: March 24, 1924. Theatre Historical Society Annual for 1986by: Irvin R. Glazer

The EARLE THEATRE, Philadelphia, Penna., Hoffman & Henon, Architects, Opened: March 24, 1924. Theatre Historical Society Annual for 1986
by: Irvin R. Glazer

Softcover. Notre Dame IN, Theatre Historical Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 40 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. A visual history of the design and building of the Earle Theatre in Philadelphia. Some of the world's biggest stars performed there in it's heyday. Old price sticker on rear cover, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 379962

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The Elements of Architecture: A Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, London, 1624by: Wotton Henry / Notes by Frederick Hard

The Elements of Architecture: A Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, London, 1624
by: Wotton Henry / Notes by Frederick Hard

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, The University Press of Virginia, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in red, 139 pages. Facsimile of a Wotton presentation inscription as frontispiece. A facsimile reproduction of the original 1624 edition. Includes an 83 page introduction, with explanatory notes. (Folger Documents of Tudor and Stuart Civilization). Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386752

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

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

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The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983by: No Author (Brooklyn Museum)

The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983
by: No Author (Brooklyn Museum)

Softcover. New York, Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages, b&w and color photography. Very light edge wear, else a very clean, tight copy. Wonderful book on the great Brooklyn Bridge. Includes much historical material, chapters on the design of the bridge with several beautiful fold-outs, and many full color repros. of the many paintings and artwork that have been inspired by the beauty of one of the wonders of the modern world. Even includes a small filmog. of films that have used the Bridge as a background or a major location/set. Published on the 100th anniversary of the opening of the bridge and an exhibition celebrating it, held at The Brooklyn Museum.

Record # 450985

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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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The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtainby: Brian Geoffrey Rose

The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtain
by: Brian Geoffrey Rose

Hardcover. Princeton Architectural Press , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. With photos taken in the mid 1980s the author takes us on a pictorial trip along the former Iron Curtain from the Baltic sea coast at Travemunde (West-East Germany) to the Adriatic sea coast at Trieste (Italy-Yugolsalvia [today Slovenia]); with a separate chapter on the Berlin Wall. They are superb photos full of (sad) atmosphere, poignancy and historical importance.

Record # 362289

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The 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

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The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940by: Donald Albrecht

The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940
by: Donald Albrecht

Hardcover. Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Daring, bold, dramatic, towering, impossibly glamorous: this is how we imagine New York in its golden age, and this is how Samuel H. Gottscho, the preeminent architectural photographer of his generation, captured it. Through his lens, New York of the 1930s became the quintessential modern metropolis, a round-the-clock city in which night was as charismatic as day. Rigorously editing out the Depression-weary city's more seamy aspects--its tenement slums, breadlines, and soup kitchens--Gottscho presented a dreamlike Gotham of skyscrapers and penthouse luxury that literally and figuratively glowed with glamour's sheen. His gimlet eye focused on the bold interplay of sun and shadow, dramatizing the chiseled forms of Manhattan's signature skyline and bridges. The Empire State and Chrysler buildings, Rockefeller Center, the Plaza, the George Washington Bridge--Gottscho brought them all to sparkling life. In this beautifully produced, landmark book, historian Donald Albrecht presents 175 of Gottscho's extraordinary images of the city, from the Battery to Harlem. An introductory essay tells the story of this legendary photographer, describing his working methods and philosophy, while placing his work in the broader context of photographic history.

Record # 361964

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The Pitot House: A Landmark on Bayou St. Johnby: Wade, James & Robert Brantley & Jan Brantley & Eugene Cizek

The Pitot House: A Landmark on Bayou St. John
by: Wade, James & Robert Brantley & Jan Brantley & Eugene Cizek

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, color illustrations. A study of early Creole architecture and history in New Orleans. Clean, like new.

Record # 398256

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The Temples of Lhasa: Tibetan Buddhist Architecture from the 7th to the 21st Centuriesby: Alexander, Andre

The Temples of Lhasa: Tibetan Buddhist Architecture from the 7th to the 21st Centuries
by: Alexander, Andre

Hardcover. Singapore, Times Editions-Marshall Cavendish, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. The Temples of Lhasa is a comprehensive survey of historic Buddhist sites in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The study is based on the Tibetan Heritage Fund`s official five-year architectural conservation project in Tibet, during which the author and his team had unlimited access to the buildings studied. The documented sites span the entire known history of Tibetan Buddhist art and architecture from the 7th to the 21st centuries The book is divided into thirteen chapters, covering all the major and minor temples in historic Lhasa.

Record # 361288

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The Urban Millennium : The City-Building Process from the Early Middle Ages to the Presentby: Josef W. Konvitz

The Urban Millennium : The City-Building Process from the Early Middle Ages to the Present
by: Josef W. Konvitz

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. The Urban Millennium focuses upon the spatial adaptation of cities as a factor in urbanization. Konvitz explores how the evolution of city building strategies has accompanied and facilitated other aspects of urban development. By taking a long historical perspective, he shows that cities were more easily adapted to changing circumstances before and dur-ing the industrialization. Konvitz also draws out the implica-tions of his analysis for contemporary urban problems. He challenges many contemporary assumptions of architec-ture and city planning and suggests that we should learn to appreciate an ap-proach to building which allows for the continual modification of individual structures and districts, and which places more control over the environ-ment in the hands of the users. Blacked out name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383943

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

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

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Town House, The by: Smith, Gwenda

Town House, The
by: Smith, Gwenda

Softcover. Strafford, Vt., Strafford Historical Society, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458723

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

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

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Urbicide - Sarajevo - Sarajevo, Une Ville Blesseeby: Curic, Borislav/Nedzad Delija/Igor Grozdanic/Nazif Hasanbegovic/Boran Hrelja/Nedzad Hrelja/Aida Kalauzovic-Mandic

Urbicide - Sarajevo - Sarajevo, Une Ville Blessee
by: Curic, Borislav/Nedzad Delija/Igor Grozdanic/Nazif Hasanbegovic/Boran Hrelja/Nedzad Hrelja/Aida Kalauzovic-Mandic

Softcover. Paris, ACAER/GPC, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. French and English text. Black & white photographs. From the introduction: "This catalogue has been re-edited by advanced reading copy wraps en reve architecture centre with the Georges Pompidou Centre, for the presentation in France of the exhibition "Warchitecture-Sarajevo, a wounded city". The exhibition and the catalogue were prepared by the architects of the Sarajevo association, members of the associations of Architects of Bosnia-Herzegovina DAS-SABIH". Light rubbing to cover edges, minor creases at corners. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613730

Price: $400.00 
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Villas of Palladio, Theby: Giaconi, Giovanni

Villas of Palladio, The
by: Giaconi, Giovanni

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to front cover of dust jacket. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy. "A collection of exquisite large-format pen-and-ink watercolor renderings of all of Palladio's villas."

Record # 471828

Price: $45.00 
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