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The French Quarter of New Orleans
$45.00 Read moreThere is no place in America like New Orleans’s famed French Quarter.
With photographs and history, The French Quarter of New Orleans explores the unique evolution of this district. The author and ph- Author: Fraiser, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1578065240
- Language: English
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The Stones of Venice
$17.99 Add to cart“It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else.” This wa… [more below]
- Author: Ruskin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 10 2003
- ISBN10: 030681286X
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture: A Critical History
$29.95 Add to cartKenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0500204446
- Language: English
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50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know
$12.99 Add to cartIn a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects’ most important and repres… [more below]
- Author: Wilkinson, Philip
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1529432200
- Language: English
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American Barns and Covered Bridges
$11.95 Add to cartWhen this book was first published in the mid-1950s, the author was concerned that such functional structures as the American barn and the covered bridge would soon give way to progress and be replace… [more below]
- Series: Americana
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0486425614
- Language: English
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Form and Design in Classic Architecture
$24.95 Add to cartInformative, readable text and 100 handsome illustrations of magnificent buildings make this book appealing not only to architects and architectural historians, but also to anyone with even a casual i… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Architecture
- Author: Stratton, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: June 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0486434052
- Language: English
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Architecture: A Visual History
$30.00 Add to cartExplore the world’s most incredible buildings, from the magnificent architecture of the ancient world to green buildings of the present day.
Discover the beautiful details, principal elements, and dec- Series: DK Ultimate Guides
- Author: Glancey, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1465464689
- Language: English
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In The Village
$18.00 Add to cartAnthony Bailey’s intimate look at life in Stonington borough made waves when it was published. First appearing in 1971 as a serialized version in the New Yorker, a hard-cover version was published soo
- Author: Bailey, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0578251639
- Language: English
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California Romantica
$50.00 Read moreCalifornia Romantica features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by such noted architects as George Washington Smith, Wal… [more below]
- Author: Keaton, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0847864758
- Language: English
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Wonderful Houses Around the World
$12.95 Read moreTravel to 10 different countries, and learn about the children, their families, and their unique homes.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words–and that’s never been more true than with Won
- Series: Discoveries in Palaeontology
- Author: Komatsu, Yoshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 093607034X
- Language: English
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Victorian Wooden and Brick Houses with Details
$14.95 Read moreThis vintage volume offers a treasure trove of floor plans, elevations, and details of residences and public buildings. Artists, architects, and historians alike will find it an endless source of insp… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Architecture
- Author: Bicknell &. Co, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451038
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright on the West Coast
$55.00 Add to cartFrank Lloyd Wright’s buildings on the West Coast have not been thoroughly covered in print until now. Between 1909 and 1959, Wright designed a total of 38 structures up and down the West Coast, from S
- Author: Wilson, Mark Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1423634470
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Arquitectura (the Architecture Book)
$29.99 Add to cartExplora los conceptos arquitect?nicos clave que hay detr?s de los edificios y estructuras m?s incre?bles del mundo.
– Resume las ideas, explora y explica todos los grandes acontecimientos y las person- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0744089069
- Language: Spanish
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Japan Style: Architecture + Interiors + Design
$24.99 Add to cartJapanese homes speak to the soul and provide a contemplative environment from which to experience the world.
Japan Style offers rare glimpses into twenty exquisite traditional homes in Japan. The lavi- Author: Mehta, Geeta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 4805315237
- Language: English
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Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide
$33.00 Read moreA hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout history
Architectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architec- Author: Fletcher, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208077
- Language: English
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The House of the Future: Walt Disney, Mit, and Monsanto’s Vision of Tomorrow
$60.00 Read moreStep inside The House of the Future, the iconic Disneyland attraction that captured the imagination of countless visitors during its ten-year run from 1957 to 1967. In this meticulously researched and… [more below]
- Author: Bossert, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1735769185
- Language: English
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The Women Who Changed Architecture: Women Who Changed Architecture
$50.00 Read moreA 2022 ALA Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary- Author: Willis, Beverly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1616898712
- Language: English
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100 Victorian Architectural Designs for Houses and Other Buildings
$8.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1878, this now-rare collection of designs supplies views of a remarkable variety of modestly priced structures: houses, villas, cottages, many others. Handsome drawings of pers… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: Bicknell &. Co, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0486421554
- Language: English
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6,000 Years of Housing
$49.99 Add to cartThis encyclopaedic volume limns the rich story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic and sedentary societies to today. It covers housing around the world an… [more below]
- Author: Schoenauer, Norbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393731200
- Language: English
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The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast (Sea Ranch Illustrated C
$75.00 Add to cartOne hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. This is the location of the Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand a… [more below]
- Author: Lyndon, Donlyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1616891777
- Language: English
