Category: Architecture

America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New? David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently contradictory processesthe practical and the grandiose. The first comes through in the vernacular buildings of rural America, the innovations of Jefferson, Bulfinch's fine civic buildings, the offices and factories of the Industrial Age, and the comfortable domestic tradition that lies behind the ho...
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Architecture in Wood : A History of Wood Building and Its Techniques in Europe and North America

By: Hans Jurgen Hansen

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Studio: Aug-71

Seller ID: 484608

ISBN: 670131482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century

By: Harold Kirker

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Gibbs Smith: May-86

Seller ID: 472501

ISBN: 087905011x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture

By: Harris, Cyril M.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Jul-10

Seller ID: 418694

ISBN: 048624444X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this volume, noted Columbia University Professor of Architecture Cyril M. Harris offers a unique tour through the entire history of architecture: an extraordinary compendium of clear, concise definitions for over 5,000 important terms. This thoroughly accurate and comprehensive gathering of architectural knowledge is complemented by an unprecedented collection of over 2,000 line drawings that richly illustrate significant aspects of architectural styles. Unusual cutaway views, close-ups of intricate details, and precisely rendered plans show many of the greatest architectural achievement...
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Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages

By: Harris, Neil

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Oct-14

Seller ID: 283097

ISBN: 300070454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Architecture and Interior Design Through the 18th Century: An Integrated History

By: Harwood, Buie

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 352290

ISBN: 013758590X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Designed for courses in interior design, rather than art history, this ambitious volume presents a survey of architecture, interiors, furniture, and decorative arts through the 18th century. Succinct summaries of the history of each era are provided in chapters that describe art and architecture fro
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Modern Architecture

By: Hassell, Anthony

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 410139

ISBN: 1435103793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Architecture: Nineteenth and twentieth centuries (The Pelican history of art)

By: Henry Russell Hitchcock

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: Jan-67

Seller ID: 480611

ISBN: B0007FO30Q

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Architecture: Nineteenth and twentieth centuries (The Pelican history of art)

By: Henry Russell Hitchcock

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: Jan-68

Seller ID: 481226

ISBN: B0006CJ5LC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lessons For Students Of Architecture

By: Hertzberger, Herman

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 367142

ISBN: 9064504644

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Architecture in Italy: 1400-1500

By: Heydenreich, Ludwig H.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: May-13

Seller ID: 235045

ISBN: 300064675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Perkins & Will: Selected and Current Works (The Master Architect Series, 5)

By: Images Publishing Group

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Images Publishing Dist Ac: Jul-02

Seller ID: 465860

ISBN: 1864700645

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Larry Perkins describes the firm's philosophy: 'While we enjoy recognition, the applause we seek is the quiet trust and satisfaction of clients and public who know that their interests have been thoughtfully served'. From its early beginnings more than 65 years ago, Perkins & Will has evolved into an international firm characterised by its ability to transform commonplace building programs into uncommon designs and to work with clients in very successful ways. Perkins & Wills portfolio of buildings is vast in quantity as well as scope, and includes schools, higher education, laboratories, heal...
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Berlin New Architecture: A Guide to New Buildings from 1989 to Today

By: Imhof, Michael/Krempel, Leon

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 401384

ISBN: 3935590156

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945

By: International Center of Photog

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 412714

ISBN: 3869303344

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On 6 August 1945, the US government dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This was the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon, and along with the bombing of Nagasaki three days later, heralded the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. After the dust had settled, President Truman dispatched military personnel and civilians to photograph the destruction. Nearly seventy years later, Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 presents a selection of these once confidential images alongside critical texts. 1,100 photographs were taken, and 865 of them published in the classified report The Effects of the ...
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