Category: Architecture

When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of ""green"" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaud and Frank Lloyd Wright designed ""greener"" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal i...
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Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture

By: Witold Rybczynski

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Dec-93

Seller ID: 109286

ISBN: 140168893

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Most Beautiful House in the World

By: Witold Rybczynski

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: May-89

Seller ID: 206457

ISBN: 670819816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Buildings of the World Exhibitions / Wolfgang Friebe ; [Translated from the German by Jenny Vowles and Paul Roper ; Illustrations, Manfred Kahlert] - [Architektur Der Weltausstellungen, 1851 Bis 1970. English]

By: Wolfgang Friebe

Price: $7.50

Publisher: [Leipzig] : Edition Leipzig: Jan-85

Seller ID: 442587

ISBN: B001B3GC16

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Nelson Byrd Woltz: Garden, Park, Community, Farm

By: Woltz, Nelson Byrd

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 405178

ISBN: 1616891149

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Nelson Byrd Woltz's award-winning landscape architecture is widely celebrated for combining sheer beauty with ecologically regenerative design. The firm's innovative and highly collaborative design methods bring depleted ecosystems back to life restoring meadows, streams, woodlands, and ponds in urban and rural settings and cultivating connections between sites and their complex regional environments.
Nelson Byrd Woltz: Garden, Park, Community, Farm presents a selection of twelve built projects representing the firm's contemporary vision for sustainable design. These examples demonstrate t...
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Here Come the Sun: Architecture and Public Space in Twentieth-Century European Culture

By: Worpole, Ken

Price: $7.00

Publisher: May-14

Seller ID: 274872

ISBN: 1861890737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here Comes the Sun looks at how social reformers, planners and architects in the early twentieth century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia. While much has been written about architectural modernism, Worpole concentrates less on buildings and more on the planning of the spaces in-between the parks, public squares, open-air museums, promenades, public pools and other public leisure facilities. Life in the open was of particular concern to early urban planners and reformers, with their dreams of release from the confines of overcrowded, unsanitary slums. Pic...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life

By: Wright, Frank Llloyd/Huxtable

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 411292

ISBN: 0143114298

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect

Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces? from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder?not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Feb-10

Seller ID: 81478

ISBN: M308

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 384015

ISBN: 807610844

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 393100

ISBN: 9546777

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

Three Quarters of a Century of Drawings

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 411521

ISBN: 9083479

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Building a Legacy: The Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pomegranate: March 2001

Seller ID: 429133

ISBN: 0764914618

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Seeds of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural philosophy are found in his Home and Studio at Oak Park, Illinois. It was here -- from 1889 to 1909 -- that Wright tested his theories, which would coalesce into his famed Prairie style. Always experimenting with materials, forms, colors, and the shaping of space, Wright constantly remodeled the Home and Studio, adapting to the changing needs of his family and work. By the 1970s, after the Home and Studio had been remodeled still more and sold several times, the unique structure, fabrics, and materials that so defined Wright's establishment had a...
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architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright,: A complete catalog

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 449720

ISBN: 262190974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Falling Water: Frank Lloyd Wright's Romance with Nature

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd/ Waggoner

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Aug-01

Seller ID: 428141

ISBN: 789300729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd/Hendrickso

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 448373

ISBN: 0385353650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was hau...
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Architecture's Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd/Howard

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 449541

ISBN: 1620403757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906-2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history.

Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless creativity, enormous charisma, and an outspokenness that made each man irresistible to the media. Often publicly at odds, they were t...
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