Category: Architecture

American architecture is undergoing fundamental changes. Gavin Macrae-Gibson interprets this new architecture in critiques of Frank Gehry's house in Santa Monica (the representation of perception); Peter Eisenman's House El Even Odd (millenial anxiety); Cesar Pelli's Four Leaf Towers (a sensibility of silence); Michael Graves's Portland Building (a concern for the sublime); Robert Stern's Bozzi House (a discussion of scenography); Alan Greenberg's Manchester Superior Court Building (the continuity of the classical); and Robert Venturi's Gordon Wu Hall Princeton (an irony of the difficult whole...
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Bldg Blog

By: Manaugh, Geoff

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 209812

ISBN: 0811866440

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Read by millions since its launch in 2004, BLDGBLOG is the leading voice in speculation about architecture, landscape, and the built environment. Now The BLDGBLOG Book distills author Geoff Manaugh's unique vision, offering an enthusiastic, idea-filled guide to the future of architecture, with stunning images and exclusive new content. From underground exploration to the novels of J.G. Ballard, from artificial glaciers in the mountains of Pakistan to weather control in Olympic Beijing, The BLDGBLOG Book is "part conceptual travelogue, part manifesto, part sci-fi novel," accor...
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House As a Mirror of Self : Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home

By: Marcus, Clare Cooper

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 367785

ISBN: 1573240761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How much does your home reflect your personality? The author of this text shares 25 years of research on what our relationships to our houses reveal about ourselves. Over 100 people, young and old, home-owners and renters, men and women, open their doors, giving you a glimpse into their feelings towards their home, and consequently themselves. This study includes colour drawings of their houses by the interviewees, as well as photographs of their homes.
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Home Away from Home: Motels in America

By: Margolies, John

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 377900

ISBN: 0821221620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate

By: Martin, Reinhold

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 397414

ISBN: 1941332226

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Interior Design Since 1900 (Third Edition) (World of Art)

By: Massey, Anne

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 406188

ISBN: 0500203970

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This revised and expanded edition is brought into the twenty-first century with a new chapter on sustainable design that focuses on public spaces such as hotels, offices, factories, and shops.
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Between the Musuem and the City

By: MCA

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 374613

ISBN: 985367876

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

FIeld Guide to American Houses

By: McALester, Virginia

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 402825

ISBN: 394739698

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Field Guide to American Houses

By: McAlester, Virginia Savage,McAlester, Lee

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf: May 1984

Seller ID: 224092

ISBN: 0394739698

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ian McHarg: Conversations with Students / Dwelling in Nature

By: McHarg, Ian

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 371824

ISBN: 1568986203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the legendary gures in twentieth-century landscape design, Ian McHarg transformed the fields of landscape architecture and planning through his personal methodology, his unique curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania, and his own inspired writing. In classic texts such as his landmark 1969 book Design with Nature, McHarg painted an incredibly rich and exuberant picture of the organic world while conjuring up a vision of a more wholesome and productive metropolis. In this new entry in the popular Conversations with Students series, we are proud to make McHarg's never-before-i...
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Design with Nature

By: McHarg, Ian L.

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 368534

ISBN: 807245672

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest

By: Miller, David E.

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 393406

ISBN: 0295984945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Green design is the major architectural movement of our time. Throughout the world architects are producing sustainable buildings in an attempt to preserve the environment and our globe's natural resources. However, current strategies for forming sustainable solutions are typically too general and fail to take advantage of critical geographical, environmental, and cultural factors particular to a specific place. By focusing on the Pacific Northwest, this book provides essential lessons to architects and students on how sustainable architecture can and should be shaped by the unique conditio...
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Lost Twin Cities

By: Millett, Larry

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 398691

ISBN: 0873512731

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"An impressive sampling of the vanished buildings of the Twin Cities, tracing their history and including information on who the owners and architects were, how these structures were used, why they were torn down, and what occupies each site today. Highly recommended." --Library Journal

Lost Twin Cities is an architectural and social history of the downtowns of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The richly illustrated text emphasizes the growth and development of the two downtowns in the nineteenth century and their subsequent alteration by urban renewal and other forces of change in the twe...
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Key Monuments of the History of Architecture

By: Millon, Henry A.

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 365732

ISBN: 243605756

Binding: Hardcover

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City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn

By: Mitchell, William J.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: May 2013

Seller ID: 109861

ISBN: 0262631768

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use of practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, the commodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over materialized form.

Architect: The life and work of Charles W. Moore

By: Moore, Charles/Littlejohn

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 358992

ISBN: 0030638291

Binding: Hardcover

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Bernini: His Life and His Rome

By: Mormando, Franco

Price: $8.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: April 2013

Seller ID: 429624

ISBN: 022605523X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and buildings that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall tourists today.It is perhaps not surprising that this artist who defined the Baroque should have a personal life that itself was, we...
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Eric Owen Moss: Buildings and Projects 1

By: Moss, Eric Owen

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 374436

ISBN: 0847814327

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Nineteenth-Century American House Historically

By: Moss, Roger W/Winkler, Gail Ca

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 407228

ISBN: 0805023135

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Victorian Exterior Decoration provides a foolproof system for choosing the colors that will best suit the particular style of any house.

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Category: Architecture