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Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

By: Dean, Andrea O./Hursley, T.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Jun-13

Seller ID: 454130

ISBN: 1568982925

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, which he describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."In a time of unexampled prosperity, when architectural a...
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Lost San Francisco

By: Dennis Evanosky

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pavilion: Nov-11

Seller ID: 432429

ISBN: 1862059349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Looks at how a city used to run--the old transport systems, former city halls, stores, theaters and cinemas, gas stations and car showrooms, restaurants, and people on the sidewalk Aspects of lost San Francisco that are examined here include the Victorian Alcatraz, Cliff House Hotel before it burned down, the early Embarcadero, the devastation of the 1906 earthquake, horse-drawn streetcars, the grandeur of the Sutro Baths both outside and in, the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition buildings, the changes made to combat a possible Japanese invasion during World War II, and some of the key hip...
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Eden Roc 50th Anniversary

By: Desilets, Deborah

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 338136

ISBN: B000NSS5YW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

By: Edward, Bailey

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 366136

ISBN: 615611583

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Finnish Architecture

By: Elia Rauske

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Museum of Finnish Architecture: Jan-08

Seller ID: 478891

ISBN: 9525195309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians

By: Elizabeth Pomada,Michael Larsen

Price: $3.00

Publisher: E. P. Dutton: Oct-78

Seller ID: 490761

ISBN: 525475230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Barn: Preservation & Adaptation The Evolution of a Vernacular Icon

By: Endersby, Elric

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 457578

ISBN: 789307944

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Manhattan Skyscrapers

By: Eric Nash

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: Aug-99

Seller ID: 479220

ISBN: 1568981813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The city of New York is the city of skyscrapers. Every visitor to Manhattan experiences the awe of gazing up at the soaring towers of Wall Street or Midtown, and wonders how they came to be built. This book answers this question, presenting 75 of the most significant buildings in the skyline.
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Eric Sloane's an Age of Barns

By: Eric Sloane

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Dodd Mead: Apr-85

Seller ID: 493679

ISBN: 030870052X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Fair amount of shelfwear on dustjacket, clean text, solid copy
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Young Architects: City Limits

By: et al SERVO

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: Sep-02

Seller ID: 454864

ISBN: 156898328X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

City Limits presents the work of the best of a new generation of architects, as selected by the jury of the Architectural League's annual Young Architects competition. This year's winners were asked: In what ways do current modes of architectural production address cities as artifacts and cities as visions? The responses are varied and accomplished, from Petra Kempf's hand drawn series of diagrams of urban movement, transportation, and form, to Teddy Cruz's ongoing involvement in the development of the US/Latin American border, through SERVO's series of product lines, Thaddeus Briner's design ...
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Genius in the Design

By: Europe/Morrissey, Jake

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Apr-16

Seller ID: 460000

ISBN: 60525347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Staircases

By: Eva Jiricna

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Watson-Guptill: Sep-01

Seller ID: 432656

ISBN: 082306896X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Staircases are one of the most intriguing of architectural elements as well as engineering miracles. This guide showcases 50 brilliant staircase designs by today's leading architects, in locations ranging from a private home in Finland to a Chicago apartment building.
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Castle: Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building

By: Field, Cynthia, et al

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Aug-11

Seller ID: 57431

ISBN: 156098287X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Using historical accounts, desk and personal diaries, and contemporary guidebooks, "The Castle" weaves the Smithsonian Building's nearly 150-year architectural history with the lore and stories of the people who have worked and lived in this striking medieval revival structure. The book also discusses the design of the 19th-century building.
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Dictionary of Architecture

By: Fleming, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Nov-13

Seller ID: 490412

ISBN: 140510133

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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